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Muscat “believes in striving for a just, comprehensive and lasting peace on the basis of the two-state solution,” says Badr bin Hamad al-Busaidi.
Copies of “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” and Henry Ford’s “The International Jew” are on sale at the 2019 Muscat International Book Fair, which is underway until March 2.
Yusuf Bin Alawi said what has been an apparent warming of relations between the two is “a peaceful process to find a settlement for the Palestinian cause that guarantees their rights and the interests of all.”
Transportation Minister Israel Katz departed Sunday evening for Oman, nine days after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the Gulf emirate.
Oman began establishing preliminary ties with Israel following the Oslo peace process in the mid-1990s, which ended up being frozen during the Second Intifada. But now it needs Israeli help on the economic crisis there, which is worsening each year.
Yousuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah, Oman’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, told a security forum in Bahrain that “Israel is a state present in the region, and we all understand this.”
In an Al-Jazeera TV interview following Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting with Omani Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al Said, Omani Foreign Minister Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah was asked why the sultanate had hosted the Israeli leader.
It is the first trip made by an Israeli prime minister since Shimon Peres in 1996.
