Arab diplomats secretly meet Israeli officials in Jordan

The report, published on Tuesday by the Arabic website of Israeli radio station Voice of Israel on Tuesday, did not specify the nationalities of the Arab diplomats who were said to be present in the meeting, Arabic-language Ma’an news agency reported.
 
During the meeting, the Arab representatives expressed their relevant states’ interest in cooperating with Israel over “security” matters in the Middle East.
 
The report added that delegates from the European Union (EU) as well as the United States were also in attendance of the secret meeting.
 
Moreover, several Arab diplomats said countries in the Middle East should be preparing for a “new reality” in the region.
 
Egypt and Jordan are the only Arab countries that relations with Israel.
 
On April 15, 2014, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Tel Aviv is holding secret talks with some Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, in an effort to create diplomatic relations to unite against Iran.
 
“There are contacts, there are talks, but we are very close to the stage in which within a year or 18 months it will no longer be secret, it will be conducted openly,” Lieberman said, Hebrew-language Yedioth Ahronoth reported.
 
The newspaper also quoted the Israeli minister as saying that some new “peace” accords between Israel and Arab states would be signed in 2019.
 
Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, however, vehemently denied the existence of any such talks with Tel Aviv.