MUSCAT (Dispatches) – The Sultanate of Oman has committed to the Palestinian Authority (PA) that it will not normalize relations with the Zionist regime, Sama News has reported.
Israeli Channel 12, Sama News reported, disclosed that this pledge came following the occupying regime’s declaration that Oman had permitted the Zionist regime’s airlines to fly eastwards over its skies.
Channel 12 reported that the PA agreed not to condemn Oman’s approval of the regime’s airlines to fly over its skies in return for this pledge.
On Thursday, Zionist foreign minister Eli Cohen announced Oman’s approval for airlines to fly through its airspace.
“This is a historic decision that will shorten the flying time to Asia, lower costs for Israelis and helps Israeli airlines to be more competitive,” Cohen communicated.
At the same time, Oman announced that the regime’s airlines would be able to pass through its airspace, noting that this came after months of talks between the occupying regime’s so-called ministry of foreign affairs and Omani authorities.
In July 2021, Omani Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr Bin Hamad Al-Busaidi told London-based newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat: “Oman believes in the principle of achieving a just, comprehensive and lasting peace on the basis of the two-state solution.”
The remarks came a week after Iraq’s deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs renewed his country’s rejection of normalization of relations with the Zionist regime.
Fuad Hussein denied reports about normalization of ties with the Zionist regime during a press conference upon his return from Washington.
Hussein also denied that this issue was proposed for discussion during his meetings with senior American officials while he was in the U.S. capital.
“We have not heard from the political blocs about the issue of the normalization,” he said. “All these reports are fake. Everyone knows the political situation in Iraq. It has been clear that such an issue has never been proposed.”
Earlier, Kuwait’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Salem Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah also said the situation between the Zionist regime and the Palestinians was not getting better.
In an interview at the Munich Security Conference, he said the priorities were for the Palestinians to have a homeland and for there to be a so-called two-state solution.
“The first Arab-Israeli peace deal was in 1979, more than 40 years ago and what has come of that? The Abraham Accords were done two years ago and what has come of that? The situation for the Palestinians is still as dire as it was ever before,” he told Reuters.
“I don’t see how the Abraham Accords are bringing closer a two-state solution,” he added, referring to a raft of agreements between the Zionist regime and Arab states in recent years.
Back in 2020, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed United States-brokered agreements with Zionist regime to normalize their ties with the regime. Some other regional states, namely Sudan and Morocco, followed suit soon afterward.
Spearheaded by the UAE, the move has sparked widespread condemnations from the Palestinians as well as nations and human rights advocates across the globe, especially within the Muslim world.
Other regional countries have also been fraternizing with the occupying regime, including Saudi Arabia, which received a visit by the regime’s former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in November 2020.