Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Sultan of Oman Qaboos bin Said al Said. . (photo credit: Courtesy)
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Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday made a surprise visit to Oman, an Arab Muslim state which has no diplomatic ties with Israel.
He did so at the invitation of the country’s leader Sultan Sayyid Qaboos bin Said Al Said.
The two men discussed ways to advance the Middle East peace process as well as a number of issues of mutual interest with regard to the region’s stability.
It’s the first meeting of this kind since 1996. During the mid-1990s, in the aftermath of the 1993 Oslo Accord, the two countries had economic ties, that were not at the level of full diplomatic ties.
According to the Prime Minister’s Office, the visit is a “significant step” in implementing the policy outlines by Netanyahu who strengthen economic ties with moderate Arab states, by leveraging Israel’s expertise in security, technology and the economy.
Netanyahu hinted at the trip on Thursday when he spoke at the launch of the Israeli Innovation Center at the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation in Tel Aviv.
“We always thought that if we solved the Palestinian problem it would open up the doors to peace with the broader Arab world. And that’s certainly true if you could do it. But it may mean that equally true and perhaps even truer is that if you open up to the Arab world and you normalize relations with them it will open the door for an eventual reconciliation and peace with the Palestinians,” Netanyahu said.
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“We should do both but I think you should not underestimate the openness and the thirst in the Arab world today for Israel. And the reason, the first reason before anything else, is that we’re there in innovation,” he said.
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