Bahrain Govt Ministers Welcome Israel’s Prime Minister Upon Arrival for Historic Visit By Hana Levi Julian
Bahrain Govt Ministers Welcome Israel’s Prime Minister Upon Arrival for Historic Visit
By Hana Levi Julian
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett arrived Monday night in Manama, Bahrain for the first-ever official visit to the country by an Israeli head of state.
Bennett was welcomed at the airport with an honor guard by Bahrain’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Minister of Industry, the Head of Protocol, the Israeli Ambassador to Bahrain and other senior officials.
The prime minister is scheduled to meet Tuesday with King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa and the country’s Prime Minister Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa.
The leaders are expected to discuss additional ways to strengthen bilateral ties, in addition to discussing “the importance of peace, advancement and prosperity in the region, and especially the advancement of diplomatic and economic issues, with an emphasis on technology and innovation,” the Prime Minister’s Office said.
Defense Minister Benny Gantz paid an official to Bahrain earlier this month, and signed a security cooperation agreement with the country.
Israel and Bahrain normalized diplomatic ties when they signed the historic Abraham Accords, brokered by then-President Donald Trump, at the White House on September 15, 2020.
The arrival of Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bent to the Kingdom of Bahrain today, Monday, is considered an advanced step in building peace and reconsidering the political assumptions in the vision of normalization in accordance with the Abraham Agreement, which opened the door wide to the stability of the region by dealing with the State of Israel as a de facto situation and an exit from the closed horizon based on open hostility to Israel . The peoples of the Middle East have the right to transcend the literature of Arab nationalist extremism, Nasserism and Baathism, which did not give the region a victory in wars or a humanitarian vision for dealing with the old crisis with Israel in 1948 AD. The chants did nothing but lose hope for a just settlement. The duty is to transcend the chants of Abu Ammar, Abu Jihad and Khaled Meshaal, and to think of a new horizon, the features of which appeared in the Abraham Agreement, which finds broad popular support despite the influence of left-wing and right-wing extremism, which presents a veto of intellectual terrorism against any step in building good-neighbourly relations with Israel.
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