Manama: Prime Minister Naftali Bennett arrived at Bahrain Monday for the first official visit by the Head of Israeli government to the Gulf State, said AFP reporter.
Bennett’s visit was the latest following the conformity of the 2020 Abraham who was ordered by the US, who opposed the Arabic consensus decade which ruled out the bond with Israel in the absence of a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
He will meet King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa.
Bahrain and allies near the United Arab Emirates become only the third majority and fourth Arab countries – after Egypt and Jordan – to build relationships with Israel when they signed an agreement negotiated under former US President Donald Trump.
“I will meet the king, I will meet Prince Crown,” Bennett said in Tarmac shortly before leaving, referring to King Bahrain bin bin Isa al-Khalifa and son of Salman son of Hamad Al-Khalifa.
The Prime Minister, who will also see high officials and members of the Jewish community, say he will hold a “series of meetings whose purpose is to fill – with energy and content – a peace agreement between the two countries.” In these times the turmoil is full That from this region, we sent a message about good goodness, cooperation standing together against challenges together, “he added.
The journey attended a visit to Manama by Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz earlier this month who saw the two countries signaled the defense agreement.
It deals with intelligence Procurement, and Together Training, with Gantz broke up to strengthen newborn diplomatic relations.
The visit also came during regional tensions over Iran’s nuclear program.
Iran moves in negotiations with England, China, France, Germany and Russia directly and with the United States indirectly to revive Agreement that was officially called a common comprehensive action plan.
The agreement offers Tehran sanctions assistance in exchange for sidewalks on its nuclear program.
The US unilaterally withdraws from JCPOA in 2018 under Trump.
The encouragement to save him continued at the end of November.
The Bennett government strongly opposes the 2015 agreement, repeatedly warned that offering Tehran sanctions will lead to an increase in income to be used by Iran to use weapons against Israel.
Yoel Guzansky, a senior researcher at the National Security Study Institute in Tel Aviv, Bennett’s travel said “really” about Iran.
“Given the talks in Vienna are performances of strength, symbolism, that countries work together,” he said.
Dore Gold, Head of the Center for Business Affairs Jerusalem, said Israel and Bahrain had been pushed towards a closer bond because of both “under the threat by Iran’s actions”.
He pointed to the riots in Bahrain blame the Iranian-supported guerrillas and various threats that Israel said Iran’s pose, especially armed the Lebanese Hizbullah group.
As part of their defense agreement, Israel will hold naval officials in Bahrain, who accommodate the base for the fifth fleet of the US Navy.
Guzansky said that in some cases Bahrain had been considered moving slower than the UAE in terms of relations with Israel.
However, he added, allowing an Israeli military officer based on “significant,” while noting that Bahrain “did not want to be seen as an Israeli base in the Gulf.”