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After UAE-Israel Deal, Kushner Pushes Other Arabs to Go Next 6 Established 1961 Thursday, September 3, 2020 International After UAE-Israel deal, Kushner pushes other Arabs to go next White House adviser heads to Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Qatar AL-DHAFRA AIR BASE: After accompanying an according to a joint statement carried by the Emirati Israeli delegation to the UAE for historic normaliza- state news agency. tion talks, White House adviser Jared Kushner set off on a tour of other Gulf capitals, looking for more ‘Disgraced forever’ Arab support. Israel and the United Arab Emirates The Palestinians have denounced the UAE agree- set up a joint committee to cooperate on financial ment with Israel, which they say violates a longstand- services at the talks in the UAE capital Abu Dhabi. ing pan-Arab position that Israel could normalize Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, accompanied the Israeli delegation on Monday on what was billed as the first Israeli commercial flight to the influential Gulf monarchy, which agreed in August Iran fumes, to normalize relations. Israel exchanged embassies with neighbors Egypt and Jordan under peace deals slams decades ago. But until now, all other Arab states had demanded it first cede more land to the Palestinians. UAE-Israel In remarks reported by the UAE state news agency WAM, Kushner suggested other Arab states deal could follow quickly. Asked when the next would normalize ties with Israel, he was quoted as saying: “Let’s hope it’s months.” Kushner later flew to Bahrain and then Saudi Arabia and is expected also relations only in return for land. The UAE says it to visit Qatar. While no other Arab country has yet obtained a major concession from Israel to halt plans MANAMA: A handout picture released by Bahrain’s official news agency (BNA) shows US Presidential indicated a willingness to follow the UAE, the richest, to annexe territory on the occupied West Bank. The Adviser Jared Kushner (left) meeting with Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa in the capital Saudi Arabia, allowed the El Al charter flight carry- Gulf Arab states are mainly ruled by Sunni Muslim Manama. — AFP ing Kushner and the Israelis to use its air space. monarchs who consider their biggest foe to be Shiite In Bahrain, which houses the US naval headquar- Iran, and Israel has long held out the promise that Ministry official Jamal Al-Musharakh told reporters The Gulf state’s biggest lender First Abu Dhabi ters for the region, the state news agency reported their common enemy could bring them together. in Abu Dhabi: “The path to peace and prosperity is Bank later said it would open discussions with Israel that during his meeting with Kushner, King Hamad In a fiery speech on Tuesday, Iran’s supreme not paved with incitement and hate speech.” Israeli lenders Bank Hapoalim and Bank Leumi. Amid the bin Isa Al Khalifa had praised the role the UAE has leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said: “The Emiratis officials have played up the economic benefits of historic normalization talks, Kushner spent a morn- played in defending Arab and Islamic interests. In will be disgraced forever for this treachery against the UAE deal. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ing meeting UAE military officials at an Abu Dhabi Saudi Arabia, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman the Islamic world, Arab nations and Palestine.” “The said representatives of the two countries had signed air base that houses US military F-35 jets, advanced and Kushner discussed the need for the Palestinians UAE, along with Israelis and evil Americans like the an agreement on cooperation in financial services. stealth aircraft which the Gulf state has long sought and the Israelis to resume negotiations and reach a Jewish member of Trump’s family, are working The state-run Abu Dhabi Investment Office and to buy despite Israeli objections. The UAE has said lasting peace, state news agency SPA reported. The together against the interests of the Islamic world,” Invest in Israel, part of Israel’s economy ministry, normalization should remove any hurdle blocking UAE, United States and Israel on Monday urged the Khamenei said, referring to Kushner, who is Jewish. issued a joint statement saying they had agreed to the sale. Netanyahu said on Monday Israel still Palestinians to “re-engage” with the Israelis, Asked about Khamenei’s remarks, UAE Foreign set out a plan to establish formal cooperation. opposes selling the jets to the UAE. — Reuters News in brief waves of sectarian conflict. That culminated in IS Macron backs Iraq capturing swathes of the country six years ago, before the jihadists were beaten back with interna- Two Koreas on high alert ‘sovereignty’ on first tional support including a US-led coalition that did include French forces. SEOUL: Flights were grounded in South Korea and storm warnings issued on both sides of the Baghdad visit ‘Essential sovereignty’ Korean peninsula as a typhoon forecast to be Iraq has been caught for years between its two one of the most powerful in years made its main allies Iran and the US, a balancing act that has approach yesterday. More than 300 domestic BAGHDAD: French President Emmanuel Macron met his Iraqi counterpart yesterday on his first offi- become increasingly tortured since Washington’s departures were cancelled as Typhoon Maysak withdrawal in 2018 from a multilateral nuclear deal churned across waters south of the resort island cial visit to Baghdad, where he insisted the war- BAGHDAD: Iraqi President Barham Saleh (right) and his with Tehran. France, one of the key remaining back- of Jeju packing gusts of up to 162 kilometers per scarred country should reassert its “sovereignty” French counterpart Emmanuel Macron greet each other ers of the 2015 agreement, called for de-escalation hour. South Korean Prime Minister Chung Sye- despite simmering US-Iran tensions. Coming straight from a two-day trip to crisis-hit Lebanon, with an elbow bump as they hold a joint press confer- after a US strike on Baghdad in January killed top kyun said the storm was forecast to be similar in ence at Baghdad’s Al-Salam Palace yesterday. — AFP Iranian general Qasem Soleimani and prompted Iran strength to 2003’s Typhoon Maemi, which left Macron is the most prominent world leader to visit Iraq since Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi to launch missiles against US troops in Iraq. France 131 people dead and more than 4 trillion won ($3 has doubled down on its signs of support in recent billion) in damage. “We are especially con- came to power in May. The trip aims to “launch an will be by your side so the international community initiative alongside the United Nations to support a can help,” he added. But there were few details on tumultuous months. cerned,” he added. Maysak - named after a Top diplomat Jean-Yves Le Drian, who was the Cambodian tree - was predicted to make landfall process of sovereignty,” Macron announced on his the much-vaunted “sovereignty” initiative, and Iraqi final night in Beirut. officials told AFP they were not expecting only minister to accompany Macron from Lebanon, west of Busan on the southern coast, then make visited Iraq in July and urged Baghdad to “dissoci- its way up the eastern side of the peninsula In Baghdad, he voiced his support for his Iraqi announcements of new financial or military aid. counterpart Barham Saleh to help Iraq fight Islamic Saleh thanked Macron for France’s support in the ate itself from regional tensions”. Macron last week before heading northwards into the Sea of Japan, insisted that “the fight for Iraq’s sovereignty is known as the East Sea in Korea. — AFP State group sleeper cells and resist foreign interfer- anti-IS fight and said he hoped Macron would pay a ence. “Iraq has been going through a challenging longer visit to Iraq in 2021. After dictator Saddam essential.” He said Iraqis, who had “suffered so time for several years, with war and terrorism,” Hussein was toppled by a 2003 US-led invasion - in much”, deserved options besides domination by Biking surges in Mexico City Macron said. “You have a transition to lead. France which France did not take part-Iraq was ravaged by regional powers or Islamist extremists. — AFP MEXICO CITY: Cycling is undergoing a renais- sance in the congested Mexican capital, North America’s largest metropolis and home to over End of a dynasty? Joe 20 million, as residents seek to social distance and avoid public transportation amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. A chaotic network of Kennedy defeated in metro trains and buses form the backbone of Mexico City’s public transport system and was US Senate primary used on a daily basis prior to the pandemic by millions of commuters, often cramped elbow to elbow. “Many people have opted to buy a bike BOSTON: Congressman Joe Kennedy, long seen as and use it, out of fear of public transport, to get to a rising star, crashed to defeat Tuesday in his bid for work, to go out and about, to be active,” said a US Senate seat, the first time the storied American Valentin Najera, a capital bike shop owner. He political dynasty lost a state election in says business is booming. “There has been an Massachusetts. Incumbent Senator Ed Markey, a increase in sales since the pandemic.” — Reuters political veteran who re-cast himself as the fiery lib- eral in the race, harnessed the state’s progressive energy to handily turn back a primary challenge Toxic leaks into Paris river from Joseph Kennedy III, the grandnephew of assassinated president John F. Kennedy. PARIS: Hundreds of liters of toxic wastewater The 39-year-old Kennedy said he called Markey have leaked into Paris’ Seine River from a plant “to congratulate him and to pledge my support” in the belonging to Franco-Swiss cement giant months ahead.” With votes still being counted, Lafarge-Holcim, local reports said, sparking out- Markey was leading around 55 percent to 44 percent.
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