Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu and Sultan Sayyid Qaboos bin Said Al Said of Oman (photo credit: Courtesy)
Posted on 10/29/2018 3:38:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's visit to Oman last week came as a surprise to the Palestinians, who denounced it as a form of "normalization" with Israel. Palestinian Authority officials in Ramallah said on Saturday they did not know if PA President Mahmoud Abbas, who also visited Oman last week, knew in advance about Netanyahu's visit to the country's port capital of Muscat. A senior adviser to Abbas would neither confirm nor deny reports to the effect that Oman and its leader, Sultan Sayyid Qaboos bin Said Al Said, were acting as mediators between Israel and the Palestinians in a bid to resume the peace negotiations between the two sides... Munir al-Jaghoob, a senior official with Abbas's ruling Fatah faction in the West Bank, said that Netanyahu's visit to Oman "eliminates the Arab Peace Initiative, which is based on land-for-peace, which will be followed by the establishment of relations between Israel and the Arab countries." He was referring to the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative, also known as the Saudi Initiative, which calls, among other things, for normalizing relations between the Arab countries and Israel in exchange for a full Israeli withdrawal to the pre-1967 lines... "We are witnessing the implementation of the Netanyahu-Kushner-Greenblatt plan" ... "The most important article of this plan calls for establishing relations between Israel and the Arab countries before seeking peace with the Palestinians." ...Mohammed Shtayyeh, member of the Fatah Central Committee, also said that Netanyahu's visit to Oman signaled the death of the Arab Peace Initiative. "The phase of public normalization has begun, and the Arab Peace Initiative is finished," he said... Several Palestinian factions and figures have also condemned the United Arab Emirates for allowing Israel's national judo team to participate in the Abu Dhabi Grand Slam Judo tournament.
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Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu and Sultan Sayyid Qaboos bin Said Al Said of Oman (photo credit: Courtesy)
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Drop dead Pali terrorist scum
Well put.
that photo with bibi and the sultan gives me great hope. There is NO reason that Jews and Arabs should not get along. ALL of Islam is based on Judaism. ALL of it.
Oman has lived in a bubble for over a century, needing nothing, but thanks to oil having plenty. Something has changed, and the agent of that change is probably Iran. First the sheik had Abbas over, got nothing but BS out of him (Hamas is on Iran's payroll, Fatah has deeper corruptions reaching into many countries of the world, but has only delivered for its ruling class), and won't take kindly to the PLO criticisms.
——normalizing relations between the Arab countries and Israel in exchange for a full Israeli withdrawal to the pre-1967 lines...——
Pre -1967 ?
Never ever going to happen
By "pre-1967" they mean "pre-1948" -- no Israel. But it's meant to imply pre-Six Day War. Neither is feasible or acceptable, even if the ethnically undifferentiated Arab squatters on Israeli territory negotiated in good faith, which they don't and won't. The proposal was dead on arrival.
It was mostly a statement of Arab solidarity and arose from Arab fears of a post 9/11 backlash, led by the Saudis. They don’t need it anymore and the politics have changed.
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