{"id":16408,"date":"2020-08-31T11:48:12","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T06:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=16408"},"modified":"2020-08-31T11:48:12","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T06:48:12","slug":"top-us-official-to-be-on-1st-israel-uae-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/16408","title":{"rendered":"Top US official to be on 1st Israel-UAE flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump\u2019s national security advisor said on Friday that he will be on the first commercial flight to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Robert O&#8217;Brien confirmed his plan in a virtual address to the Atlantic Council think tank, ending speculation sparked by reports earlier this week that he and Trump\u2019s son-in-law Jared Kushner would be on the historic flight.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Brien said he will be departing for Israel on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>An Israeli delegation is also expected to be on the flight, which is scheduled to depart from Tel Aviv\u2019s Ben Gurion Airport for Abu Dhabi on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The flight will likely be operated by Israel\u2019s national flag carrier El Al, said O\u2019Brien.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat a great thing to have the UAE, which is a finance center in the Middle East and a great partner of the United States, and the start-up nation, the center of innovation in the Middle East, Israel, our great democratic ally, come together,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The flight will be the first between the nations since the US brokered the opening of bilateral diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n<p>The deal, however, has already hit turbulence over the UAE&#8217;s desire to purchase F-35 jets, which Israel has vocally opposed on national security grounds.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after announcing the normalization agreement, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the agreement includes direct flights from Tel Aviv to UAE airports, passing through Saudi airspace.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia has not issued any confirmation or denial about allowing Israeli airplanes to cross its airspace, with Riyadh also refraining from issuing any public criticism of the agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON US President Donald Trump\u2019s national security advisor said on Friday that he will be on the first commercial flight to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from Israel. Robert O&#8217;Brien confirmed his plan in a virtual address to the Atlantic Council think tank, ending speculation sparked by reports earlier this week that he and Trump\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1460],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16410,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16408\/revisions\/16410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}