Israel’s integration means marginalizing Palestinian issue
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – US President Joe Biden’s top adviser Brett McGurk arrived in Riyadh to discuss possible normalization of relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel.
But Palestinians have made it clear that they will reject attempts to dilute the issue of Palestine in the cover of Arab-Israeli normalization.
Palestinian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that they reject all attempts to marginalize the Palestinian issue amid efforts to deepen Israel’s integration in the Middle East.
It warned that Israel’s regional integration “poses a danger to the Palestinian issue, the peace process references and the Arab peace initiative.”
Proposed by Saudi Arabia in 2002, the Arab Peace Initiative calls for normalizing relations with Israel in return for its withdrawal from Arab territories occupied in 1967.
“Integrating Israel further in the Middle East means pursuing the path of former US President Donald Trump’s so-called Abraham Accords,” the ministry said.
Under the U.S. initiative, the UAE and Bahrain signed agreements to normalize their ties with Israel in September 2020.
The move was followed later by Sudan and Morocco.
The Palestinians have decried the normalization agreements as a “stab in the back”.
Six Arab countries have diplomatic ties with Israel which include Egypt, Jordan, the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan.
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