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News of a peace deal between Israel and Bahrain first came from US President Donald Trump on Twitter.
Seconds later, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu communicated with residents of the country:
“Citizens of Israel, I am moved when I can now say that we have reached another peace agreement with an Arab, Bahrain, tonight.”
Aroused dissatisfaction
Netanyahu said that relations with Bahrain should be “normalized” and that diplomatic contacts should be established, as Israel has done with the United Arab Emirates following the August 13 agreement.
In both agreements, Israel says it is canceling planned annexations of the occupied West Bank. But Netanyahu has insisted that the plans are not completely shelved.
Just half an hour after the outbreak, the reactions came from the Palestinians, who immediately condemned the deal and characterized it as “a stab in the back” for the Palestinian people.
Iran also showed clear and angry discontent with the deal. In a statement on Twitter, a representative of the Foreign Ministry, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, writes that Bahrain “should learn from history, tomorrow it may be too late.”
Egypt praises the agreement
Bahrain becomes the fourth Arab country to establish full diplomatic relations with Israel, after the United Arab Emirates, Egypt in 1979 and Jordan in 1994.
Egyptian President Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi considers the peace treaty to be “historic”.
“I congratulate this important step towards achieving stability and peace in the Middle East, which could lead to a just and lasting solution for the Palestinian cause,” al-Sisi wrote on Twitter.
The great power Saudi Arabia has previously said that a deal with Israel is not relevant until the question of the future of the Palestinians is resolved and secured.
