Palestinian leadership to reconsider relations with Arab League
An Arab League meeting
Aljazeera reports:
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Ishtayeh has said the government will present a recommendation to President Mahmoud Abbas to reconsider relations with the Arab League.
The move comes amid Palestinian anger about recent US-brokered agreements to normalise relations between Israel and two Gulf nations – the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. “The Arab League has become a symbol of the Arab inaction,” Ishtayeh said during his weekly cabinet meeting on Monday.
Last week, an Arab League ministerial meeting failed to adopt a Palestinian draft condemning the UAE-Israel normalisation agreement that took place in August.
Bahrain then became the fourth Arab country to establish full diplomatic ties with Israel after UAE, Egypt (1979) and Jordan (1994).
The White House will host the signing ceremony of the normalisation agreements on Tuesday. The ceremony will be attended by US President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed and Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdul-Latif al-Zayani.