{"id":16643,"date":"2020-09-15T11:50:49","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T06:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=16643"},"modified":"2020-09-15T11:50:49","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T06:50:49","slug":"bahrain-israel-discuss-defense-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/16643","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain, Israel discuss defense partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MANAMA, Bahrain\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bahrain on Monday announced it is considering establishing a defense partnership with Israel, following the controversial normalization agreement between the two countries, according to the official Bahrain News Agency (BNA) Anadolu news reported.<\/p>\n<p>According to BNA, in a phone call, Bahraini Defense Minister Abdullah al-Nuaimi and his Israeli counterpart, Benny Gantz discussed the &#8220;common expectations of establishing a close partnership between the two defense ministries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the news agency, the partnership &#8220;would contribute to enhancing the capabilities of the two countries and maintaining regional security.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gantz offered to &#8220;host his Bahraini counterpart on an official visit to Israel, and they agreed to continue the dialogue together,&#8221; BNA said.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Bahrain and Israel announced a US-brokered agreement to normalize their relations, in a move one month after a similar deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).<\/p>\n<p>Bahrain became the fourth Arab country to have diplomatic relations with Israel, after Egypt in 1979, Jordan 1994, and the UAE in August 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The normalization deals have drawn widespread condemnations from the Palestinians, who say that such agreements do not serve the Palestinian cause and ignore the rights of Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>The Palestinian Authority said any deal with Israel should be based on the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative on the principle of &#8220;land for peace&#8221; and not &#8220;peace for peace&#8221; as Israel claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANAMA, Bahrain\u00a0 Bahrain on Monday announced it is considering establishing a defense partnership with Israel, following the controversial normalization agreement between the two countries, according to the official Bahrain News Agency (BNA) Anadolu news reported. According to BNA, in a phone call, Bahraini Defense Minister Abdullah al-Nuaimi and his Israeli counterpart, Benny Gantz discussed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1460],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16643","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\/16643","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=16643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16645,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16643\/revisions\/16645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}