JERUSALEM (AFP) - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is due in Jerusalem on Monday (Aug 24) to start a tour focused on Israel's normalisation of ties with the UAE and pushing other Arab states to follow suit.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
JERUSALEM - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is due in Jerusalem on Monday to start a tour focused on Israel's normalisation of ties with the UAE and pushing other Arab states to follow suit.
Following the US-sponsored deal announced on Aug 13, the new partners say they want to promote trade, especially the sale of Emirati oil to Israel and Israeli technology to the Emirates, as well as boosting tourism by establishing direct air links. President Donald Trump's Middle East peace plan, announced in January, saw cooperation between Israel and those Arab countries who, like Israel, see Iran as their main foe.
But the UAE ambassador to Washington, writing on the front page of Israel's top-selling daily, said closer ties would benefit everybody. "The Emiratis are saying there was a promise there, the Israelis are saying no," said Professor Joshua Teitelbaum of the department of Middle Eastern studies at Bar Ilan University, near Tel Aviv.
"From what I understand, arrangements are made that the version that the Arab country gets is not the absolute latest version," he told AFP.There can also be cost advantages as a sweetener, he said."The fact that Israel gave its wink to the Saudi F-15s allowed the actual price to be lowered for the Israelis, because it allowed the assembly line to run at that factory."
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