Oman content with Israel relationship, despite Abraham Accords

As expected. Now that President Trump is out of office, there will likely be no more peace agreements between Israel and its Arab neighbors. At least for the foreseeable future. Expanding the Abraham Accords does not seem to be a priority for the current administration. Instead, their priority is to re-enter the JCPOA with Iran, and to re-establish relations with the Palestinian Authority. Israel should now do everything it can to cement its relations with the UAE, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco.

Oman content with Israel relationship, despite Abraham Accords

Away from the Gulf, Morocco and Sudan have also normalized relations with Israel.

By Jerusalem Post, February 11, 2021

Oman is satisfied with its current relationship with Israel, the foreign minister said on Thursday, even after two fellow Gulf Arab states normalized ties with Israel and raised US hopes others would follow suit.

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“As regards Israel we are content so far with the level of our current relations and dialog, which involves the appropriate channels of communication,” Foreign Minister Badr al-Busaidi said. Oman, he added, was committed to peace between Israel and the Palestinians based on a two-state solution.

Gulf neighbors the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain normalized relations with Israel last year, becoming just the third and fourth Arab states to do so in more than 70 years. The administration of then-US President Donald Trump had hoped other Gulf states would also establish formal ties.

Away from the Gulf, Morocco and Sudan have also since normalized relations with Israel.

Busaidi also said Oman was ready to help with rescuing Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal, fraying since 2018 when Trump withdrew the United States from the pact, but felt that existing US communication lines with Tehran could suffice.

Asked at an online event about the chance of Oman mediating in new efforts to restore the deal Iran signed with world powers, Busaidi said Muscat has a very good relationship with both Tehran and Washington and was ready to assist if needed.

“I believe the channels are open directly between the foreign policy teams in Washington and Iran. I see no reason why those channels can’t be reactivated,” Busaidi told the Atlantic Council event.

The 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) deal limited Iran’s uranium enrichment activity to make it harder for Tehran to develop nuclear arms, if it so chose, in return for the easing of US and other sanctions.

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Trump exited the deal, calling it too lenient on Iran, and reimposed sanctions that have crippled the Iranian economy.

New US President Joe Biden has said Washington will rejoin the JCPOA if Iran stops breaching limits on enrichment and returns to full compliance with the deal.

Busaidi, who was appointed in August after Oman’s new Sultan Haitham delegated this position away from his own portfolio, reiterated Oman’s longstanding policy of neutrality in a turbulent region.

“Omani foreign policy has always sought to maintain and encourage dialog between as wide a number of parties as possible,” he said

 

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Tasmanian Devil

3 years ago

Absent an immediate and complete reversal of these insane policy decisions, Crazy Joe Biden will kindle and be responsible for what the world dreads: WWIII.

The man is not in possession of his faculties and it is obvious that Fascist, Marxist, war-mongering lunatics are actually in charge. But Crazy Joe AND DEMOCRATS will bear the badge of responsibility for these acts of derangement forever.

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Beverly

3 years ago

al-Busaidi is counting on the relationship the other Arab countries have with Israel. He knows that if Iran were to engage in a war and/or attempt to bomb Israel that Israel, in protecting their Muslim partners, would be there to protect Oman as well.

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mtman2

3 years ago

Reply to  Beverly

It could be –
“Peace Peace but there is no peace”

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