Omani FM to Times of Israel: US peace plan will fail without a Palestinian state

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DEAD SEA, Jordan — The US administration’s Israeli-Palestinian peace plan will fail if it does not provide for a Palestinian state, Omani Foreign Minister Yusuf bin Alawi said on Sunday.

In an interview, bin Alawi also said the next several years would be “decisive” for peace efforts and called for Arab states to work to reassure Israel that it can withdraw from the West Bank and Golan Heights without feeling threatened.

Bin Alawi said his talk with The Times of Israel, on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Jordan, was his first sit-down interview with an Israeli publication. Gulf ministers rarely speak to Israeli outlets. The conversation came days before Israelis head to the polls, with a US peace plan for the region slated to be released sometime soon after.

While US President Donald Trump has said he thinks the two-state solution, including the creation of a Palestinian state, “works best,” he has not committed to it.

“If [the plan] avoids mentioning a Palestinian state, it will not have a future,” bin Alawi, who has served as Oman’s foreign minister since 1997, warned.

Since Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Oman late last year, the top Omani diplomat has spoken frequently about the Israel-Palestinian peace process.

Netanyahu met Omani Sultan Qaboos bin Said in Muscat in October 2018, becoming the first Israeli prime minister to do so in more than two decades; he also met bin Alawi in February on the margins of an American-Polish conference in Warsaw on the Middle East.

Bin Alawi, clad in traditional Omani garb, also said Arab states should figure out how they can quell Israeli fears about its security situation.

“Israel still believes that it is in a region with enemies. It considers its security requirements to be a top priority. Therefore, as Arabs, we must discuss this issue and see how we can eliminate this feeling and reach a mutual understanding with Israel,” he said. “If it is reassured about its security, Israel will have no need or requirement to keep its army in the Arab lands and it will not feel that it has enemies in the region.” (Read More)