Zionist Regime to Host Arab Journalists for First Time

Date: 21 July 2019 - 21:44

News ID: ۶۸۳۵۹

WEST BANK (Dispatches) – The Zionist regime’s foreign ministry said Sunday the regime will this week host six journalists from Arab countries including, for the first time, Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
The visit comes as the occupying regime seeks to improve ties with Persian Gulf Arab countries, with which it has no formal diplomatic relations.
Those states have resisted offering the regime formal recognition due to its continuing occupation of Palestinian territory, but their relations have warmed of late.
The journalists will visit Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in al-Quds, parliament and holy sites, among others, the foreign ministry said in a statement.
It claimed it had "the aim of exposing the journalists -- some of whom come from countries that do not have diplomatic relations with Israel -- to Israeli positions on diplomatic and geopolitical issues".
Jordan is also participating, the ministry said.
Jordan is one of only two Arab countries, along with Egypt, that have diplomatic relations with the regime.
In another recent sign of a thaw, a group of Zionist journalists attended the U.S.-led economic conference on Zionist-Palestinian "peace” in the Persian Gulf state of Bahrain in late June.
The Palestinian leadership boycotted the conference, citing a series of moves against them by U.S. President Donald Trump's administration.
On Thursday, Zionist foreign minister Israel Katz said that he had met his Bahraini counterpart publicly for the first time during a visit to Washington last week.
Katz also recently visited Abu Dhabi for a UN climate conference, where he met United Nations chief Antonio Guterres and an unnamed "high ranking UAE official".