Israel’s Cost d’Affaires in Bahrain, Itay Tagner, has been seen discussing with Indonesia’s Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto in a uncommon public change between officers of the 2 international locations on the side-lines of Bahrain’s annual IISS Manama Dialogue convention yesterday.
Though no additional particulars have been made accessible concerning the assembly, it has led to additional hypothesis that the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation which at the moment has no diplomatic ties with Israel could also be trying to normalise relations, following the US-brokered Abraham Accords which noticed normalisation between Israel with Bahrain and the UAE; they have been adopted by Sudan and Morocco. In September, Israel opened its first ever embassy in Bahrain and earlier this month, premiers of both countries met for the primary time on the side-lines of the UN Local weather Change Convention in Glasgow, Scotland.
Based on the Palestinian News Network yesterday, citing Israeli non-public sources, “Intense talks are going down between Israel and Indonesia, which might be adopted by a historic peace settlement between the 2 international locations.”
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Firstly of this yr, US officers within the then-outgoing Trump administration advised the Times of Israel that Indonesia and Mauritania have been near coming into their very own normalisation agreements with Israel.
“Mauritania and Indonesia are excessive on the listing, but it surely modifications based mostly upon varied circumstances,” a senior US official was quoted as saying.
Nevertheless a month earlier than, a senior Indonesian MP careworn that his nation would never normalise relations with Israel and confirmed claims that the US offered the nation $2 billion to take action.
