Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said his country is working with the UAE, Bahrain and Morocco to bring in more Arab countries to normalize ties with Israel.
“I wouldn’t name names because this will harm the process, but of course, we’re working with the United States and with the new friends in the Emirates, in Bahrain and Morocco… in order to expand this to other countries,” Lapid told the Jewish Federations of North America’s annual conference earlier this week.
According to a senior Foreign Ministry source who spoke to Israel times, Israel is attempting to build relations with a broad range of regional nations, including Oman, and expects to reach at least one agreement within the next year.
According to the director of the Foreign Ministry’s Middle East and Peace Process Division, Eliav Benjamin, Israel has moved on with attempts to establish official ties with countries in the Middle East and Africa.
During a press conference, Benjamin said, “We’re speaking essentially to all countries in the area, in the Middle East and North Africa. “They each have to decide when will be the right time for them and how to go about it. We’re speaking to all of them, Oman as well…we have ongoing cooperation.”
The United Arab Emirates last year became the first Arab state to normalize relations with Israel since Egypt and Jordan decades earlier, with Bahrain and Morocco following suit soon afterward.
The U.S secretary promised in several occasions to encourage more Arab countries to recognize Israel.
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