Israeli Foreign Policy
“Sorry @FoxNews & @TreyYingst your sources gave you bad info,” tweeted U.S. special envoy Jason Greenblatt. “While the plan is close to complete, we aren’t there yet & we’ll continue to refine it until release.”
A U.S. State Department official told JNS, “We intend to release the president’s vision when the administration concludes that we have maximized its potential for acceptance, execution and implementation.”
His weeklong trip, which is scheduled to include stops in Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman, the United Arab Emirates and possibly Morocco, is planned for the last week of February.
“The Ministerial Conference to Promote a Future of Peace and Security in the Middle East” will include U.S. and Israeli officials, as well as the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Bahrain.
Other countries that received U.S. waivers on importing Iranian oil in the aftermath of reimposed sanctions that were lifted under the 2015 nuclear deal are China, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, India and Iraq.
The two are expected to meet with foreign officials on the highly anticipated Israeli-Palestinian peace plan, which U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said will be released after the Israeli elections on April 9.
The Jewish state was the only nation to send a search-and-rescue team.
According to China’s Ministry of Transport, a total of 52 ports in 34 countries are managed or were constructed by Chinese companies, and that number is set to grow as Beijing expands its Belt and Road Initiative.
One of the organization’s co-chairs, veteran Democratic strategist Ann Lewis, said anti-Israel Democrats, including freshmen Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, are “dominating the press, the media. And they aren’t going to be able to get anything done.”
A search-and-rescue team of 130 Israeli conscripted and reserve soldiers landed on a specially chartered emergency El Al flight to South Western Brazil to join local rescue crews in the search for hundreds of people who went missing when a dam collapsed.
The move by Israel comes amid growing international concern over Chinese involvement in construction projects and the fallout from its trade war with the United States.
Were the visit to occur, it would exemplify the initiative by Israel to improve relations with African countries, including Chad and Oman, which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently visited.
