The Guardian:
They are images that will infuriate the Palestinian leadership: the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, smiling and joking with Arab leaders at an international conference on the Middle East.
Israel has formal diplomatic relations with only two Arab states, Egypt and Jordan. For decades, one price the country has paid for its occupation of the Palestinian territories has been snubs by the majority of its neighbours.
Events at a two-day summit in Warsaw, however, tell a different story. First there were the videos of Netanyahu sitting with Arab officials at the grand opening dinner on Wednesday night.
“I believe we are beginning a new era,” the US vice-president, Mike Pence, said at the meal. “With prime minister Netanyahu from the state of Israel, with leaders from Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the UAE all breaking bread together.”
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Benjamin Netanyahu (right) shakes hands with the Omani foreign minister, Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah, in Warsaw. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Image
بر اساس فیلم منتشره، وزیر خارجه بحرین، شیخ خالد بن احمد میگوید: «من با این فکر بزرگ شدم که نزاع اسرائیلی- فلسطینی مهمترین نزاع در منطقه است، اما سمیترین موضوع در تاریخ مدرن از جمهوری اسلامی ایران رسید... این چالش که آمد دیدیم که دیگر محدودیتی نمیشناسد.»