BLINKEN WITH ISRAEL AND FOUR ARAB COUNTRIES

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the heads of diplomacy from Israel and four Arab countries held an unprecedented meeting on Israeli territory on Monday to discuss peace in the Middle East and Iran's nuclear program.

This summit in the locality of Sde Boker, a kibbutz in the Negev desert (south) where the remains of the founder of Israel David Ben-Gurion rests, takes place the day after an attack claimed by the jihadist organization Islamic State (EI) which claimed the lives of two policemen in Hadera in northern Israel.

At the start of his tour on Sunday, Antony Blinken spoke in Jerusalem with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, before meeting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the occupied West Bank. He then dined at Sde Boker with his counterparts from Israel, Egypt, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Morocco, four Arab countries that have normalized their relations with the Jewish state.

But one must ask whether the four Arab ministers participating in this meeting are still committed to the rights of the Palestinian people. Perhaps in words they say so, but in practice they have alienated the Palestinians by choosing to establish relations with Israel, while the Jewish state continues to create new settlements in the occupied territories. And Morocco is the Arab country that stands out in its extensive relations with ISRAEL


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