By Dan Williams JERUSALEM, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Israeli Prime
By Dan Williams
JERUSALEM, Dec 10 (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed President Donald Trump’s announcement of a normalisation deal between Israel and Morocco as an “historic peace between us”.
Netanyahu mentioned it might result in direct flights between Morocco and Israel and that the fourth U.S.-brokered deal between Israel and an Arab nation in current months could be a “very heat peace”.
In a televised deal with, he mentioned: “I’ve at all times believed that this historic peace would come. I’ve at all times labored for it.”
Thanking Trump, he added: “I wish to thank, too, the king of Morocco, King Mohammed the Sixth, for taking this historic choice to carry an historic peace between us.”
However Bassam as-Salhi, a member of the Palestine Liberation Group’s Government Committee, condemned the deal, as Palestinian officers did with the sooner Israeli normalisation accords with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan.
“Any Arab retreat from the (2002) Arab peace initiative, which stipulates that normalisation comes solely after Israel ends its occupation of Palestinian and Arab lands, is unacceptable and will increase Israel’s belligerence and its denial of the Palestinian individuals’s rights,” Salhi instructed Reuters.
In Gaza, Hazem Qassem, spokesman for the ruling Islamist group Hamas, mentioned: “This can be a sin and it doesn’t serve the Palestinian individuals. The Israeli occupation makes use of each new normalisation to extend its aggression in opposition to the Palestinian individuals and enhance its settlement enlargement.”
Morocco was the Muslim nation from which the best variety of Jews emigrated to Israel after the 1948 creation of the state. A small Jewish neighborhood stays within the North African nation.
The information broke in Israel as Jews marked the primary evening of the Hanukkah competition of lights, commemorating the 2nd century BC victory of Judah Maccabee and his followers in a revolt in Judea in opposition to armies of the Seleucid Empire and the following restoration of the Jewish temple in Jerusalem.
Rafael Peretz, an Israeli cupboard minister, welcomed the deal, calling it “historic and joyous”.
“My mother and father, who immigrated from Morocco and left their whole lives behind, at all times spoke of peace and about good relations with the Arab neighbours in Morocco,” he tweeted.
“The time has come for us to take action, too.”
(Writing by Dan Williams Enhancing by Mark Heinrich)
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