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Israel’s Netanyahu tells Chad leader he will visit more Arab states soon

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November 26, 2018
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Israel’s Netanyahu tells Chad leader he will visit more Arab states soon

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) delivers a joint statement with Chadian President Idriss Deby in Jerusalem November 25, 2018. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the visiting Chadian President on Sunday that he expects to make more trips to Arab countries in the near future after going to Oman last month.

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Israel has diplomatic ties with just two Arab states, Egypt and Jordan, though Netanyahu has hinted at warmer relations with Gulf Arab states that Israel views as natural allies against regional powerhouse Iran.

Netanyahu and his ministers have visited a number of Gulf states in the past few weeks. Although the he did not specify his next planned Arab destination, local media said Israel was already talking to Bahrain about establishing official ties, making it a likely port of call.

Chadian President Idriss Deby arrived in Israel on Sunday for the first official visit by a leader of the Central African country that severed diplomatic ties with Israel in 1972.

“We discussed … the great changes that are taking place in the Arab world in its relations with Israel,” Netanyahu said, adding there will be more visits to Arab countries soon.

The Netanyahu government has been investing in outreach to Africa, where some countries previously warm to Israel have kept their distance since its occupation of the Palestinian territories in the 1967 Middle East war. Israel has diplomatic ties with 32 of the continent’s 54 countries.

Deby said his visit was “historic” for both countries and that it “could facilitate the turning of a new page in relations between us” but added that even with a renewal of ties, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict could no be ignored.

“Of course, the renewal of diplomatic ties between us, which I very much want, is not something that can make the Palestinian issue disappear,” Deby said in French through a translator.

Unofficial contacts between Israel and Chad have been ongoing for an extended period, Deby said. One source told Reuters the visit is focussed on security, adding that Israel has supplied Chad’s army with weapons and equipment this year to help fight rebels.

Wasel Abu Youssef, a senior Palestinian official, voiced displeasure over Deby’s visit.

“All countries and institutions must boycott the extremist government of Israel and impose a siege on it because of its settlement activities, its occupation of Palestinian land,” Youssef said.

Deby, 66, has been in power since 1990 and has been an ally of the West in a fight against Islamist militants in West Africa. However, impoverished Chad itself faces destabilising forces on multiple fronts, including jihadists with links to al Qaeda and Islamic State.

He is also trying to prevent an influx of militants fleeing the Libyan conflict and in January closed Chad’s border with its northern neighbour.

In July 2016 Deby hosted the then-director of Israel’s Foreign Ministry, Dore Gold, for exploratory talks on improving bilateral relations. Gold said on Israel Radio on Sunday that his Chadian hosts told him they had cut off ties in 1972 under Libyan pressure, a factor removed with the toppling of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.

(Additional reporting by Dan Williams and Maayan Lubell in Jerusalem, Nidal al-Mughrabi in Gaza and Madjiasra Nako in N’Djamena; Writing by Jeffrey Heller and Ori Lewis; Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky, David Goodman and David Gregorio)

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