While the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain normalized their relations with the Jewish state in 2020 and a third Gulf country, Saudi Arabia, is getting closer, Kuwait cultivates another singularity:
"We will be the last Arab State to recognize Israel
”, willingly confided the last foreign ministers to some of their visitors.
On this issue, a broad consensus exists in a country committed to the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel to settle the old conflict.
“
Public opinion is very pro-Palestinian
,” confirms a Western diplomatic source.
“
What have the Emirates and Bahrain gained by getting closer to Israel?
asks a Kuwaiti diplomat.
Technology transfers, intelligence, but nothing on stopping colonization, for example.
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