UAE
Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz proposed that the Emiratis join a regional forum to export natural gas from the eastern Mediterranean.
Dia Saba is to sign a three-year contract for $3 million per season after previously playing for the Chinese Super League club Guangzhou R&F.
They stressed increasing cooperation between their countries, in addition to areas of economic, social and cultural concern.
Israel’s Qualitative Military Edge “is a matter of U.S. law, not policy,” says U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman.
Unlike its Gulf neighbors, the UAE does not have the problem of religious extremism, has a clear succession for the presidency and has resolved most of its border problems.
Ofer Israeli, an expert on international relations and the Middle East at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, says Gantz should place Israeli requests for acquisitions of new weapons systems as part of “compensation” for F-35 sales to the United Arab Emirates.
Palestinian security forces arrest supporters of Abbas rival who lives in UAE
The arrests in the West Bank have been called “politically motivated.”
Any deal must honor an agreement with Israel that guarantees it a military edge over Mideast states that purchase U.S. weapons.
In the wake of the Abraham Accords, will Iran’s fear of a “Zionist presence” in the Gulf region lead it to carry out a Crimea-style invasion of Bahrain, risking a direct confrontation with the United States?
Under the agreement, Emirati students will be able to study in Jerusalem at the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School.
It will be operated under the rabbinical supervision of Rabbi Levi Duchman, rabbi of the UAE, who has certified the venue with glatt-kosher and pas Yisroel.
“May it be a blessed year of realizing peace and stability in the region,” says Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdullatif al-Zayani after Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi sends a holiday greeting.
