Middle East
“Everyone knows what the Persian Gulf signifies for Iran,” says a Tehran Foreign Ministry official. “And everyone knows very well how high the risk is if Iran’s lines are crossed.”
The administrative delegation is scheduled to inspect the building that hosted the Moroccan liaison office in the late 1990s. Rabat had preserved the Tel Aviv venue even after severing ties in 2000, when the Second Intifada erupted.
The “Mehr” news agency quotes a Yemeni official threatening Israel, after IDF Spokesperson Hidai Zilberman tells a Saudi news site that the military is monitoring Tehran’s involvement in Iraq and Yemen.
Senior adviser to the president Jared Kushner and U.S. special envoy Avi Berkowitz discuss the Abraham Accords, Israeli-Palestinian peace and Iran in an interview from Morocco.
The attack included 21 missiles that killed at least one Iraqi civilian and partially damaged the Baghdad embassy compound.
“We’re talking to them about it,” said Adam Boehler, CEO of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation. “If they’re ready, they’re ready, and if they are then we’ll be happy to even support more financially than what we do.”
Israel’s National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat, who is of Moroccan heritage, said relations with Morocco “are especially significant, beyond the diplomatic and economic aspects.”
The move was approved by Egypt, which controls the canal, according to Israeli media.
Israel’s Chief Sephardi Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef met with Emirati officials to discuss growing ties between the two peoples, as well as invest Rabbi Levi Duchman with official duties on the ground.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is still cementing his rule and cannot openly defy King Salman on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But normalizing ties with Israel may be used as leverage by both the prince and the new U.S. administration.
The Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education finds attitudes in the kingdom towards Israel are becoming “more balanced and tolerant.”
“We are all the sons of Abraham; we must sit to make peace, to exist together and make a better future together for the next generation,” said Morocco’s Ambassador to the United Nations Omar Hilale.
