{"id":2149,"date":"2017-12-10T03:45:23","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T04:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madaresharghi.com\/bahraini-king-sends-delegation-to-israel-for-peace-paper\/"},"modified":"2017-12-10T03:45:23","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T04:45:23","slug":"bahraini-king-sends-delegation-to-israel-for-peace-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madaresharghi.ir\/en\/bahraini-king-sends-delegation-to-israel-for-peace-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Bahraini king sends delegation to Israel for &#039;peace&#039;: Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madaresharghi..com\">madaresharghi<\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><h2 class=\"lide\">A Bahraini delegation has arrived in Israel with a message from the country&#8217;s king, in the latest instance of warming ties between the two sides, The Times of Israel has reported.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"94\">\n<p>\n\tReporting on Sunday, the Israeli paper said 24 members of the \u2018This is Bahrain\u2019 group, which professes campaigning for \u2018religious freedom,\u2019 traveled to Israel this week for a four-day visit, presstv.com reported.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cThe king sent us with a message of peace to the whole world,\u201d a member on the group said about the visit.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn September, Israeli media said Bahrain\u2019s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifah had called at an event hosted by pro-Israeli group Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles for an end to the Arab boycott of Israel, calling for diplomatic ties to be established with Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBahrain\u2019s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifah has criticized the Arab boycott of Israel, saying that the Bahrainis are free to visit Israel.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIsraeli tourists and businessmen have been travelling to Bahrain over the recent years. The Israeli daily cited a prominent rabbi, who had met with the king, as saying that the monarch intended to allow citizens from his kingdom to visit Israel freely.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tLast year, the tiny kingdom became the only Persian Gulf country, which publicly mourned the death of former Israeli president Shimon Peres.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tLeaks obtained by WikiLeaks also showed that senior officials from Israel and Bahrain had spoken in recent years. They cited a 2007 meeting between then Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni and Bahraini Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa in New York.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn 2005, the Bahraini king boasted to an American official that his state had contacts with Israel \u201cat the intelligence\/security level,\u201d WikiLeaks\u2019 findings also showed.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tArab states have been traditionally depicting themselves as Israel\u2019s enemies and supporters of the Palestinian cause for putting an end to Tel Aviv\u2019s occupation of the Palestinian territories.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has admitted that his regime had ties with the Arab world, and that the relations were improving.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn historical comments, Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz said last month that Tel Aviv had had covert contacts with Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tYaacov Nagel, who stepped down as Netanyahu\u2019s internal security advisor earlier this year, said last month that Saudi Arabia was ready to sacrifice Palestinians and their demands for closer ties with Israel.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAnd on Friday, Reuters cited Palestinian officials as expressing worries that Saudi Arabia was acting behind the scenes to advance a United States \u2018grand bargain\u2019 over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that heavily favored Israel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>madaresharghi A Bahraini delegation has arrived in Israel with a message from the country&#8217;s king, in the latest instance of warming ties between the two sides, The Times of Israel has reported. Reporting on Sunday, the Israeli paper said 24 members of the \u2018This is Bahrain\u2019 group, which professes campaigning for \u2018religious freedom,\u2019 traveled to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[296,118,28,31,159,639,178,56,213,84,95,82,68,22,23,27],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bahraini king sends delegation to Israel for &#039;peace&#039;: Paper - madaresharghi | An Analytical Look at Middle Eastern Developments<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/madaresharghi.ir\/en\/bahraini-king-sends-delegation-to-israel-for-peace-paper\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bahraini king sends delegation to Israel for &#039;peace&#039;: Paper - madaresharghi | An Analytical Look at Middle Eastern Developments\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"madaresharghi A Bahraini delegation has arrived in Israel with a message from the country&#8217;s king, in the latest instance of warming ties between the two sides, The Times of Israel has reported. 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