Mysterious New Mission Reportedly Opens in Gulf
Finance Ministry costings indicate a diplomatic mission in the Gulf, but Israel officially has none.Israelnationalnews.com
By Arutz Sheva
First Publish: 5/12/2013, 5:39 PM
Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah
AFP file
Israel has opened a new diplomatic mission in the Gulf, the ultra-leftist daily Haaretz reported on Sunday, citing finance ministry costings for 2014 prepared for submission to the government this week.
“The paper is an economic plan for the next year and does not name the location of the new mission,” Haaretzsaid.
Questioned by AFP, a foreign ministry spokesman would say only that Israel “officially has no diplomatic representation in the Gulf.”
In May 2010, then Israeli trade minister Binyamin Ben
Eliezer attended an international economic conference in Qatar. He was
the first Israeli minister to visit the Gulf state since Foreign
Minister Tzipi Livni in November 2008.
Qatar, increasingly influential in the region, broke off
diplomatic ties with Israel and closed the Israeli trade mission in Doha
in protest against the Israeli military offensive in Gaza in December
2008-January 2009.
Besides Qatar, only Oman had established relations with
Israel but they were broken in late 2000 after the beginning of the
Terror War of 2000-2005.
In January 2010, then national infrastructures minister Uzi
Landau, attended a meeting of the International Agency for Renewable
Energy in Abu Dhabi. But the United Arab Emirates stressed that his
presence did not mean normalization between the two countries.
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