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Israel urges citizens to avoid Gulf, cites Iran threat

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ The Israeli government on Thursday urged its citizens to avoid travel to the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, citing threats of Iranian attacks. Iran has been threatening to attack Israeli targets since its chief nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, was assassinated last Friday near Tehran. It accuses Israel, which has been suspected in previous killings of Iranian nuclear scientists, of being behind the shooting. Israel has not commented on the killing. But Fakhrizadeh has long been on Israel’s radar screen, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying at a 2018…

Saudi Arabia allows Israeli commercial planes en route to UAE to cross its airspace: senior US official

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ Saudi Arabia agreed on Monday to let Israeli airliners cross its airspace en route to the United Arab Emirates after talks between Saudi officials and White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, a senior Trump administration official said. Kushner and Middle East envoys Avi Berkowitz and Brian Hook raised the issue shortly after they arrived in Saudi Arabia for talks. According to the Israeli i24news, the Tel Aviv administration asked Washington to persuade Saudi Arabia to allow use of its airspace and Kushner stepped in. “We were able to…

Israel Removes Saudi Arabia From Quarantine List A Day After Netanyahu’s ‘Visit’

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COURTESY BY: https://www.bolnews.com/ Following Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s reported visit to Saudi Arabia, the Israeli Ministry of Health added Saudi Arabia to its “green” list of coronavirus. The list includes countries from which returnees do not have to stay in quarantine. According to the foreign news agency ‘AFP’, the Israeli Ministry of Health confirmed that Saudi Arabia was included in the list of safe countries a day ago, but denied any connection to Netanyahu’s reported visit to the futuristic Red Sea city of Neom on Sunday. For news updates…

Lebanon, Israel to hold US-brokered border talks

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ BEIRUT: Lebanon and Israel said on Thursday they would hold US-brokered negotiations on their disputed land and maritime borders, in what Washington hailed as a “historic” agreement between two sides technically still at war. The United States will act as a facilitator during the UN-backed talks to be held in the southern Lebanon border town of Naqoura, Lebanon’s Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri told a news conference in Beirut, without giving a date. US envoy David Schenker said the negotiations would start in the week of Oct 12.…

King Salman targets Iran during debut at United Nations

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ NEW YORK: Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz took aim at Iran during his debut on Wednesday at the annual United Nations meeting of world leaders, calling for a comprehensive solution to contain Riyadh’s regional rival and stop it from getting weapons of mass destruction. He said Iran has exploited a 2015 nuclear deal with world powers “to intensify its expansionist activities, create its terrorist networks, and use terrorism,” adding that this had produced nothing but “chaos, extremism, and sectarianism.” “A comprehensive solution and a firm international…

US eyes accord on stealth fighter jets with UAE

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ WASHINGTON: The United States and the United Arab Emirates hope to have an initial agreement on the sale of F-35 stealth fighter jets to the Gulf state in place by December, as the Trump administration studies how to structure a deal without running afoul of Israel. Sources close to the negotiations said the goal is to have a letter of agreement in place in time for UAE National Day celebrated on Dec 2. Any deal must satisfy decades of agreement with Israel that states any US weapons…

Angered by Arab-Israel ties, Palestine quits chairing Arab League sessions

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ Palestine has quit its current chairmanship of Arab League meetings, the Palestinian foreign minister said on Tuesday, condemning as dishonourable any Arab agreement to establish formal ties with Israel. Palestinians see the accords which the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed with Israel in Washington a week ago as betrayal of their cause and a blow to their quest for an independent state in Israeli-occupied territory. Earlier this month, the Palestinians failed to persuade the Arab League to condemn nations breaking ranks and normalising relations with Israel. Palestine was…

Saudi Arabia Opens Airspace To All Israel-UAE Flights

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COURTESY BY: https://www.bolnews.com/ Saudi Arabia has allowed all flights to and from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to pass through its airspace. The Saudi General Authority for Civil Aviation (GACA) has allowed all its flights to pass through its airspace at the request of the UAE General Civil Aviation. Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan said the agreement would not change the kingdom’s position on Palestine. He said in a Tweet that allowing flights to and from the United Arab Emirates to pass through Saudi airspace will not change the…

UAE Betrays Islamic World, Palestinians By Signing Agreement With Israel

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COURTESY BY: https://www.bolnews.com/ Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has said that the United Arab Emirates has betrayed the Islamic world and the Palestinians by signing an agreement to normalize relations with Israel. According to the details, Ayatollah Khamenei said that the UAE rulers opened the door of the region to the Zionists, and they have ignored and normalized the question of Palestine, which is a question about the usurpation of a country. This stigma will remain on them. “The nation of Palestine is under various, severe pressures. Then, the UAE…

Israel’s Foreign Intelligence Service Mossad Head Visits UAE

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COURTESY BY: https://www.bolnews.com/ On Tuesday, the head of Israel’s foreign intelligence service Mossad, Yossi Cohen, visited the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to meet the national security adviser of the country. “The two sides discussed prospects for cooperation in the security field and shared perspectives on regional developments and issues of common interested, including both countries’ efforts to contain COVID-19,” told an agency. After Trump’s announcement last week that both the countries, Israel and UAE had agreed to normalize relations, Cohen’s trip to UAE became the first visit by an Israeli…