The Saudi newspaper Ilf claims that the pressure exerted by the Palestinians on the authorities in the Gulf states indicates that Muscat and Doha are considering declaring normalization
Abu Mazen and Amir Qatar // Photo: AFP
Saudi news website Elef reports that Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, scheduled for Monday (Doha) with the Emir of Qatar, has reached the principality with the aim of pressuring Qatar not to sign a normalization agreement with Israel similar to the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco. The Palestinian.
Qatari officials told Saudi news website that Abu Mazen told Amir Qatari that the Biden administration was expected to announce renewed support for a two-state solution.
Abu Mazen also claimed that signing a normalization agreement between Qatar and Israel, with the support of outgoing President Donald Trump's administration, would undermine the intentions of President-elect Biden and his administration to pressure Israel to return to negotiations with the Palestinians based on the two-state vision.
It was also reported on the Saudi news website that Fatah official Jibril Rajoub, who has been in Iraq for the past few days, was asked by Abu Mazen to urgently visit the Sultanate of Oman to put pressure on the regent not to sign normalization with Israel as long as the Palestinian issue At a dead end.
Senior officials in Oman told Saudi news website that Rajoub's urgent request to come to Oman and meet with officials close to the regent sultan surprised senior sultanates who had to comply with Rajoub's request not to offend him.
"According to the report on the Saudi website Rajoub, ordered by Abu Mazen, he asked his hosts not to sign a normalization agreement with Israel, since these agreements harm Palestinian national interests."
