The meeting, Monday, March 28 in the Negev desert, between the American Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, and the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Israel, Bahrain, Emirati, Moroccan and Egyptian aims to bring out and strengthen an anti-Iran bloc in the Middle East, underlined Tuesday several titles of the Arab and Israeli press.
“Negev Meeting Debates Iranian Threats”, headlined the Egyptian daily Al-Shorouk. The discussions took place in Israel, in the kibbutz of Sde Boker, a particularly symbolic place where David Ben Gurion, founding father of the State of Israel, is buried.
“Historic meeting between Israeli, American and Arab ministers”, the Emirati daily abounded The National, quoting the head of Israeli diplomacy, Yaïr Lapid, according to which such a meeting between “like-minded allies” could become annual in order to constitute a counterweight to Iran in the region.
And the newspaper specifies that this meeting is part of the dynamics of the Abraham Accords (2020), which saw the Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan normalize their relations with Israel, joining Egypt and Jordan, which had until then been the only Arab countries to have formalized their diplomatic relations with Israel.
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