Israel sent envoys to Morocco on Tuesday to meet with the king and renew his hammer on ties created by the White House in a bid for a breakaway foreign policy effort by U.S. President Donald Trump.
Led by National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat, Rabat was joined by Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and architect of pan-Arab rapprochements with Israel.
The plane that is to take the Israeli delegation to Morocco
(Photo: Sivan Pereg )
They took El Al Israel Airlines in its first direct flight by commercial plane from Tel Aviv to Rabat, paving the way for a potential surge in tourism among hundreds of thousands of passengers. Israelites of Moroccan descent.
Palestinians have criticized broken US treaty agreements between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco, saying the Arab countries have reversed the cause of peace by abandoning a long-standing demand from Israel handing over land to the Palestinian state before they are recognized.
As the Trump administration has tried to isolate Iran, the normalization treaties have been sweetened with promises of business opportunity or economic support. Israel’s new allies have also seen bilateral gains from Washington – in Rabat’s case, the U.S. recognition of its sovereignty over Western Sahara.
The plane that is to take the Israeli delegation to Morocco
(Photo: Sivan Pereg )
Ben-Shabbat and Kushner will see King Mohammed in Morocco during a two-day visit, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
The jet was painted with the Hebrew, Arabic and English words for “peace” and a palm-shaped maghreb of good fortune talisman. Some U.S. officials have privately hoped to host an Israeli-Morocco signing ceremony at the White House before Trump steps down on Jan. 20.
Opposing domestic disagreements at the link with Israel, Moroccan ministers have put it as a formulation of de facto relations under which Rabat had hosted Israel’s “liaison office”.
Closing in 2000 in close relations with the Palestinians, that office will now reopen. Israel hopes to embassy each other, eventually.
“This type of agreement will contribute to better interaction between communities and people,” Moroccan Tourism Minister Nadia Fettah Alaoui told Israeli television channel I24.