Oman's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yousuf bin Alawi, said: "It is time for Israel to be accepted in the Middle East"

At the 14th annual summit of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in Manama, which s & # 39; Is open Friday in Bahrain, a list of impressive speakers from the Middle East presented the evolution of the situation in the region.

The Foreign Minister of Jordan delivered a speech on behalf of King Abdullah II of Jordan. He pbadionately advocated a two-state solution. "Israel is in the Middle East but it is not yet," he told a question asked by Reuters correspondent Amena Bakr.

However, Oman welcomed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a surprise visit. last week, said that it was time for Israel to be accepted in the Middle East. "Israel is a state of the region, and we all understand that," Oman's Foreign Minister Yousuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah told the audience. "We are not saying that the road is now easy and paved with flowers, but our priority is to end the conflict and move to a new world," he said.

Israel was not present at the forum. But the foreign ministers of Bahrain and Saudi Arabia discussed the issue of Israeli-Palestinian peace, and Riyadh hinted that a peace agreement could pave the way for normalization of relations. "We believe that the normalization of relations with Israel will have to be ensured by the peace process," said Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir.

These were important and symbolic words, but they are also ideas that some of these states have looked at since the 1990s. Peace for recognition. The Oman Declaration goes beyond that and encourages more engagement with Israel despite the lack of progress in the peace process. Oman may say that it will facilitate the peace process, but awareness is important.

Throughout the region, Israel seems to be benefiting from support points. For example, the visit to Muscat was celebrated in the Omani media. The Israeli national anthem was also played in Doha during a sporting event, and Israeli athletes recently traveled to the United Arab Emirates. Some voices in the Gulf share the news online with obvious approval. The UAE national highlighted the visit and saw a photo gallery dedicated, while noting that Saudi Arabia, an ally of the United Arab Emirates, had pointed out that "Iran is the main factor of instability in the region ".

The subtle message was that Iran is the problem, and Oman's gesture toward Israel is good for the region.

The visit to Oman has raised many questions about hypocrisy in the Middle East. For example, an Al Jazeera commentator in Arabic said that she rejected "normalization" with Israel, but many on Twitter did not stop asking why Doha is hosting Israeli athletes with the Israeli flag . Kurdish commentators from northern Iraq have also noted that the Kurdish region has often been criticized for its relations with Israel, while the Omanis are expanding now. Halal for them, haram for us, wondered a man using the Arabic words to qualify as acceptable and forbidden.

The Iranian media are perplexed by such public reception in Israel in Oman. For many years, Tehran has been trying to keep alive the notion that Israel is the only problem in the region, with annual "Jerusalem Day" events and constantly talking about Israeli threats. But the Syrian civil war, in which Iran joined the Damascus regime and was seen as an aid to the mbadacre of civilians, undermined Tehran's image. All the Iranian media could do was insist that Israel's visit to Oman was not as good as it seems. The "sultanate was only offering ideas to help Israel and the Palestinians come together," Iran's TV Press TV reported. Tasnim News has published an article about the commander of the IRGC, Mohammed Ali Jafari, giving a speech in front of Arba'een, a Shia pilgrimage, claiming that Muslims should unite against "global arrogance" Which tends to be a reference to the United States and Israel.

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