After UAE & Bahrain deals, Trump aims at initiating direct flights between Israel, Morocco

Following  rmalisation deals with United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain, US President Donald Trump is w aiming to introduce direct flights between Israel and Morocco, in a bid to establish diplomatic relations. low-level ties between two countries began in 1993 after an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal.

Moroccan Prime Minister Saeddine Othmani h earlier opposed to a rmalization agreement with Israel, citing rights of Palestinians. However, Prime Minister later cleared that he h spoken in his capacity as chairman of moderate Islamist Party for Justice and Development (PJD) and t on behalf of government.

Orchestrated by US, this deal comes a month after United Arab Emirates established full diplomatic relations with Israel, becoming third nation to do so in  region, after Jordan and Egypt.

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Bahrain Inks Peace Deal With Israel

In what United States boasts as second breakthrough to rmalise situation in West Asia, Bahrain has signed a ''peace deal'' with Israel. With se developments in West Asia, US President Donald Trump claims that his ministration has achieved major success in bringing peace in region. However, t all has gone well with neighbours of Israel and countries which have decided to recognise Jewish state.

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Relation of Israel with or Arab countries

Jewish state of Israel was formed in 1948, and since n country has fought eight wars with its Arab neighbours. se wars predominantly stemmed from conflict between Palestine and Israel. After World War II, demand for a homeland for Jews in Arab dominated Palestine grew. Back n, Palestine was under British mandate, but when it ended in 1947, United Nations (UN) proposed an Arab-Jewish partition of Palestine. This partition plan mandated 53 percent of land to Jewish-majority state and 47 percent to Palestinian-majority state.  Arab dominated West Asia did t accept a Jewish nation giving rise to conflict in region. While Egypt and Jordan established diplomatic ties later, or Arab countries are of opinion that y would withhold recognition till formation of a Palestinian state in West Bank and Gaza Strip. However, re has been a major shift recently. 

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