Nadene Goldfoot
1. The Abraham Accords States are meeting in Israel on Sunday, March 27, 2022 in Israel at the invitation of Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, in an historic summit, who is the host. US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, will also attend. This is happening because the states became normalized with Israel in August 2020. The Arab states arriving will be from UAE, Bahrain, and Morocco. "Bahrain and Morocco followed suit, while Sudan also agreed to normalize ties with Israel, although it has yet to finalize a deal".While in Morocco, Blinken is also due to meet Crown Prince Mohammed, the Department of State said.
The talks are being organized to coincide with a regional tour by Blinken due to begin on Saturday.
Blinken is to visit Israel including the West Bank (Judea and Samaria), Morocco and Algeria in this trip. Blinken is also due to visit Algeria and Morocco at a time when the region is reeling from the backlash of Russia’s war on Ukraine. Blinken’s visit also comes amid Israeli efforts to mediate a solution to the war in Ukraine, which has left both sides with heavy losses, and shows no signs of abating.
It also comes as the US is close to reaching an agreement with Iran, not appreciated by Israel's needs, to restore the 2015 accord limiting Tehran’s nuclear development program, in return for removing sanctions on the country. The 2015 agreement was so bad that Trump excused himself from the group and left it. Now, It may be even worse.
“We know this pain is keenly felt in the Middle East and North Africa, where most countries import at least half of their wheat,” much of it from Ukraine, Department of State Acting Assistant Secretary Yael Lempert told reporters in Washington, in reaction to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
2. Before this meeting takes place, Jordan is hosting one of their own today in Aqaba, Friday the 25th of March with Egypt and Abu Dhabi, the capital of UAE. Jordanian state media said King Abdullah II would host Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Iraq’s Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi and Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Abu Dhabi’s powerful crown prince, in the southern Jordanian city of Aqaba on Friday.
The Arab countries which have normalized ties said they were motivated by the economic benefits of establishing official relations with Israel, despite opposition from the Palestinians.
Jordan and Egypt were one of the very first states to normalize relations with Israel.
Egypt The
Jordan had a population of over 2 million of whom 85% were Moslem Arabs by 1992. Today it is 10.2 million! The king married a Palestinian woman. On 26 October 1994, Jordan and Israel signed the peace treaty in a ceremony held in the Arava valley of Israel, north of Eilat and near the Jordanian border. Prime Minister Rabin and Prime Minister Abdelsalam al-Majali signed the treaty and the President of Israel Ezer Weizman shook hands with King Hussein.
3. It also follows a three-way summit hosted by Egypt on Tuesday, March 29, 2022 at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh between Egypt's el-Sisi, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, and Saudi Arabia's
Crown Prince Mohammed.
The upcoming talks come against the backdrop of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a conflict that has sparked wider security concerns, and sent oil and food prices soaring.
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