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Bahrain’s foreign minister visits Israel at the last sign of warming ties

JERUSALEM The Bahraini Foreign Minister visited Israel on Wednesday at the last sign of warming ties following a series of US-mediated normalization agreements between Israel and the Arab nations.

Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Alzayani flew to Tel Aviv on a Gulf Air passenger plane and was scheduled to meet in Jerusalem with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior officials.

He will also attend a tripartite meeting with Netanyahu and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who arrived late Wednesday.

The foreign minister was welcomed on the terrace by his Israeli counterpart, Gabi Ashkenazi, and other US and Israeli officials. Everyone wore masks and touched their elbows to greet because of concerns about the coronavirus.

“I come here from a country convinced of the importance of peace,” Alzayani later told a news conference with Ashkenazi. “There is a clear willingness on both sides to make this co-operation work and to demonstrate that this can have clear positive benefits for our countries and the region.”

He invited Ashkenazi to attend next month’s Manama Dialogue, an annual security conference held in the Bahraini capital.

Ashkenazi said they hope to celebrate the opening of embassies by the end of the year. He said Bahrainis will soon be able to apply for visas online and that both countries will soon have direct flights.

He also welcomed the Palestinian Authority’s decision to restore ties with Israel that had been severed earlier this year over Israel’s plans to annex parts of the occupied West Bank. Israel put forward these plans when the UAE agreed to normalize ties in August.

“I welcome the decision yesterday by the Palestinians to resume co-operation with Israel, security co-operation,” Ashkenazi said. “Our door is open to renewed negotiations and I urge the Palestinians to go through this door without preconditions.”

Later, Alzayani met with the figurative president of Israel, Reuven Rivlin, who presented him with a copy of a Hebrew version of the Qur’an translated by the president’s late father.

Bahrain followed the UAE in agreeing to establish full diplomatic ties with Israel earlier this year. Progress reflects a changing Middle East, in which Israel and the Gulf states see Iran as a common threat eclipsing decades of conflict with the Palestinians.

Sudan also agreed to establish ties with Israel as part of a broader deal with the United States that would pave the way for much-needed foreign aid following the overthrow of former President Omar al-Bashir last year.

The Trump administration hailed all three deals as historic breakthroughs ahead of the election. President-elect Joe Biden also welcomed the agreements and is expected to build on them as he pressures Israel and the Palestinians to return to peace negotiations.

Prior to this year’s agreements, only Egypt and Jordan had recognized Israel as part of peace treaties negotiated more than 25 years ago. Israel hopes to cultivate much warmer ties with the Gulf countries, aiming for co-operation in various fields, including tourism and public health.

In normalizing ties with Israel, the three nations broke an old Arab consensus that recognition should be granted only in exchange for concessions in the peace process. The Palestinians condemned the normalization agreements as a betrayal of their cause.

Associated Press writer Joseph Krauss contributed to this report.

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