UAE to Open Embassy in Months

Hamas: Normalization Helps Promote Zionist Expansionism

Date: 05 September 2020 - 22:10

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GAZA STRIP (Dispatches) – Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says normalizing ties with the Zionist regime helps the occupying regime to promote its expansionist policies.
Hamas also criticized Arab states helping the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to facilitate its normalization of ties with the Zionist regime.
"Endorsement of some Arab states of the UAE-Israeli normalization deal encourages the Israeli occupation to enforce its expansionist policies in the region,” Hamas Spokesman Hazem Qasim announced in a press release.
Qasem’s remarks came in response to Bahrain and Saudi Arabia’s decisions to allow all flights to and from the UAE, including flights from the occupied territories, to cross their skies.
"All Arab states should have prevented the UAE from reaching the normalization deal with the Israeli occupation,” he urged, "instead of supporting it.”
The Hamas official called on all countries in the region who are seeking the normalization of ties with the occupying regime to backtrack on this move, which he asserts is "against their national interests and the national Arab security.”
All Palestinian factions have unanimously condemned the UAE-Zionist agreement, describing it as a stab in the back of the oppressed nation and a betrayal of the Palestinian cause against the occupation.
A senior UAE official said his country would open an embassy in the occupied territories within three to five months in the wake of the deal with the Zionist regime to establish full diplomatic relations.
Israel Hayom newspaper quoted the unnamed UAE Foreign Ministry official as saying that Zionists could get a visa to travel to the Persian Gulf Arab state after the opening of the diplomatic mission.

Arab League Slams Serbia, Kosovo

In another development, Zionist prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the occupying regime and Pristina have agreed to establish diplomatic ties and Kosovo, along with Serbia, will open embassies in occupied al-Quds.
The remarks came shortly after U.S. President Donald Trump made a similar announcement in Washington, where he met with leaders of Serbia and Kosovo as they agreed to normalize economic ties between them.
The secretary general of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) said Trump has made Palestine a "victim” of his electoral ambitions as Serbia moves its embassy to al-Quds following a Washington-brokered deal.
Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit condemned the decision by Serbia and Kosovo to open their embassies in occupied al-Quds saying this decision is both null and void.
He said in a statement that this move is contrary to UN decision, international law, and Security Council resolutions that prohibit countries from moving their embassies to al-Quds since it is considered occupied since 1967, as well as Resolution 478 of 1980 prohibiting countries from establishing diplomatic missions in al-Quds and rejecting any measure that would change the legal status of the city.
Aboul Gheit stressed the Arab League’s firm position which considers al-Quds to be one of the final status issues to be negotiated between the Palestinian and Israeli sides.
He indicated that ignoring international decisions and preempting the results of negotiations is a wrong and illegal act, and severely impedes the chances of reaching a real deal based on the two-state solution on the June 4, 1967 borders.