UAE Official Urges Arab Openness to Israel

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Laila Afifa

Kamis, 28 Maret 2019 18:25 WIB

TEMPO.CO, Dubai - Relations between Arab states and Israel need to shift to help progress towards peace with the Palestinians, a senior United Arab Emirates official was quoted on Thursday, March 28, as saying.

The decision by many Arab countries not to talk with Israel has complicated finding a solution over the decades, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash said, according to Abu Dhabi-based daily The National.

"Many, many years ago, when there was an Arab decision not to have contact with Israel, that was a very, very wrong decision, looking back," Gargash said, in unusually candid remarks.

"Because clearly, you have to really dissect and divide between having a political issue and keeping your lines of communication open."

The UAE and other Gulf states criticized U.S. President Donald Trump's recognition this week of Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights, a strategic plateau captured from Syria in a 1967 war.

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