So my friend, Secretary of State Tony Blinken, Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed, Foreign Minister Abdullah T. Falziani, Foreign Minister Samash Shukri, and Foreign Minister Nasser Burrita. Last night, for the second time in a week, terror struck in the heart of Israel. At the heart of Israel in two senses, in the heart of the country, in a crowded city, and also in the heart of every Israeli citizen. This was murder for the sake of murder, terror for the sake of terror. These terrorists fired in every direction with one goal, to kill as many innocent people as possible, to shed as much blood as possible. I send my condolences to the families of the murdered and my wishes for the full and speedy recovery of the wounded. Our thoughts and prayers are with them today. Shortly after the attack, Islamic jihad and Hamas praised it. They declared that it was a response to the negative summit we are holding here. The terrorist goal is to intimidate us, to make us afraid to meet and to build relationships and agreements between us. They will not succeed. We will not let them. We have no intention of rewarding terrorists. We have no intention of letting them dictate our lives or our policies. Israel is a strong and a proud country and will never surrender to terror. We will continue on our path, the path of peace. I am not alone in this. Everyone here shares this sentiment. Last night all the foreign ministers participating in the summit condemned with one strong voice the horrific terror attack on behalf of the people of Israel. I thank you for this. My friends, Israel's founding father, David Ben-Gurion, who is buried two minutes away from here, once said, history isn't written, history is made. What we are doing here is making history, building a new original architecture based on progress, technology, religious tolerance, security and intelligence cooperation. This new architecture, the shared capabilities we are building intimidates and deters our common enemies, first and foremost, Iran and its proxies. They certainly have something to fear. What will stop them is not hesitation or being conciliatory, but rather determination and strength. Friends, we are standing here in the Negev, where our common father went after signing the original Abraham Accords between him and the Lord. In the book of Genesis it is written, then Abraham set out and continued towards the Negev. He came here to build a better future for his people and his family, and we are here for the same reason. The history of the Middle East is the story of smart and tough people who made the desert bloom. Our peoples are those who stopped right here and said, in this place, in this desert, we will make life flourish. From this desert we'll spring forth palaces and temples, schools and hospitals, inspirational art and literature and groundbreaking technology. This meeting is the first of its kind, but not the last. Last night we decided to make the Negev summit into a permanent forum. Together with our closest friend and ally, the United States, we are today opening a door before all the peoples of the region, including the Palestinians, and offering them to replace the way of terror and destruction with shared future of progress and success. Thank you very much. Thank you, Minister Lapid, next to address us, Secretary of State of the United States, Anthony Blinken. Please, sir. Thank you.  On behalf of President Biden, the American people, we stand our heartfelt condolences to the loved ones of the victims, Yazin Fala and Sharia Abu Karat. No family should have to experience such loss. And we stand in absolute solidarity with our friends and partners against terrorism and these horrific acts of violence. And indeed, Jair, as you said, what we are doing here is the exact counterpoint to this senseless destruction and violence. It's an honor to be here with you, with Minister Burrida, Minister Al-Zayani, Minister Zayed, Minister Shukri, the foreign ministers of Israel, Morocco, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt, standing together in Israel. Just a few years ago, this gathering would have been impossible to imagine. You mentioned the original Abraham. He had a dialogue with God. He had the temerity sometimes to ask why. We have the temerity. You have the temerity to ask why not? That is what this is about. Since September 15, 2020, when leaders from Israel, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates signed the Abraham Accords, and Morocco and Israel signed a normalization agreement soon after, once impossible things have become possible. We've seen democracy flourish, with Morocco and Israel agreeing to open embassies in Rabat and Tel Aviv. Prime Minister Bennett becoming the first Israeli prime minister to visit Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. And last week, the leaders of the United Arab Emirates, Israel, and Egypt meeting to launch new areas of cooperation. We've seen growing economic ties, with Bahrain and Israel signing more than a dozen agreements, including on aviation, on banking, on technology. Government and business leaders from Morocco and Israel meeting last week to promote tourism across both countries. A solar energy deal that will accelerate the green energy transition already underway in the region. At the heart of these interactions are people, people eager to learn about and from one another. Human exchanges are flourishing between Rabat and Tel Aviv. A Holocaust memorial exhibition is now open in Dubai. Hospitals in Bahrain and Israel are teaming up on cancer research. Tomorrow soccer players from, or football players from your countries will play in the Abraham Accords Festival and Games at the Dubai Expo, where there's also an Israel pavilion. The Abraham Accords are making the lives of people across your countries more peaceful, more prosperous, more vibrant, more integrated. They're allowing governments to focus their energies and attentions on the issues that are actually affecting the lives of our citizens and making them better. The United States has and will continue to strongly support a process that is transforming this region and beyond. We'll help to strengthen the bonds between Israel and its circle of friends, both those with which it has normalization agreements and those with which it has long-standing peace treaties like Egypt and Jordan. To name one example, later today, officials from the United States, the UAE and Israel, will launch the religious coexistence working group to counter intolerance and promote understanding. And we'll help widen the circle of friendship to include other countries interested in securing greater peace and prosperity for their own people. As we do, we have to be clear that these regional peace agreements are not a substitute for progress between Palestinians and Israelis. One of the issues we discussed today was how countries involved in the Abraham Accords and normalization, as well as those that have long-standing diplomatic relationships with Israel, can support the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian people in concrete ways and have a positive impact on the daily lives of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. This is a conversation we'll carry forward so that we can work toward our goal of Palestinians and Israelis enjoying equal measures of freedom, security, opportunity and dignity, and create the conditions for a negotiated two-state solution. Finally, as neighbors and in the case of the United States as friends, we will also work together to confront common security challenges and threats, including those from Iran and its proxies. Almost exactly 43 years ago, Israel and Egypt concluded the Camp David Accords. At that time, standing between President Sadat and President Begine, President Carter said this, we're privileged to witness a significant achievement in the cause of peace, an achievement that none thought possible just a year ago. Well, those were different times. Israel and its neighbors had just fought a war. But that sentiment, that what was believed unchangeable, was suddenly transformed, creating a new reality. This is also true today. And as happens, whenever you break down barriers, that if Iran kept people from interacting, exchanging ideas, working together, it's impossible to anticipate all the new directions this can take us. This is a new dawn. The only limits are the ones we can imagine. So I commend the courage of those willing to break down barriers, political leaders, but also people across our societies, individual citizens who are forging new relationships as a result of this historic opening. I am excited to see all that you and we can imagine and create together for one another, for the region, for the world. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Secretary. Now I invite His Excellency Abdul Latif Bin Rashid Al-Zayani, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Bahrain, to address this. Thank you. Your Highness, your Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, it has been my great pleasure to participate in this distinguished gathering. And I want to start by thanking Foreign Minister Lapid for the invitation and indeed for the hospitality. I would like to start by condemning the terrorist attack which took place last night, claiming the lives of two border policemen. And I would like to convey our condolences to the bereaved families and reaffirm our firm's stance against terrorism in all its forms. I join you here on behalf of the Kingdom of Bahrain, a nation which has always been convinced and the importance of peace, dialogue, coexistence, and mutual respect, principles which are fully reflected and embodied in the vision of His Majesty Kik Hamid bin Isa Al-Khalifa and the policies implemented by the government, led by His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamid Al-Khalifa. This is an important and timely meeting and an opportunity to build on the historic 2020 Abraham Accords with a huge scope for growing the region's prosperity, safeguarding its security, and realizing the aspirations of all its peoples. The need to do so is made more urgent by recent developments, such as the Houthi, terrorist militias' continued attacks on civilian energy infrastructure, the ongoing threat from terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah and other proxy groups, and the need to resolve the Iranian nuclear fire. So we need to put into practice the principles behind their courts, namely those of dialogue, cooperation, and mutual respect. We need to establish genuine, sustainable coexistence and interdependence between participants, building genuine networks of cooperation and trust to advance our common security and prosperity. By doing so, we will demonstrate to the whole region what can be achieved by working together and show how collectively we can overcome shared regional challenges and seize opportunities in a way that would not possible individually. Of course, part of this process will be renewed efforts to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. And Bahrain continues to urge both parties to come together and negotiate a resolution that establishes a viable state for the Palestinians and protects the security and interests of all parties. Ladies and gentlemen, in the Kingdom of Bahrain, we have moved quickly to build on the Abraham Accords. And to rapidly expand our relationship with the state of Israel, we see great potential for cooperation across all fields. And over the past 18 months, we have already seen how this potential can be realized. This forum is, therefore, an important step in deepening and strengthening these bilateral ties, but also in expanding multilateral cooperation and interdependence among all countries. Secretary Blinken, in this context, I would like to thank the United States of America for their support to the Abraham Accords and for their continued commitment to the security of the region. And once again, thank you, Mr. Lapid, for hosting this gathering and for these warm and constructive discussions. And I very much look forward to our next meeting and to building further on what we have achieved today. Thank you. Thank you very much, Excellency. I now invite His Excellency Samekh Shukri, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt, to address us. Minister Lapid, colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, let me first of all convey our appreciation to Minister Lapid for having convened these consultations. They are, I think, can be characterized by having been constructive and in-depth and do address the various challenges that are region cases, turbulence related to regional and international conditions. And we do so the day before yesterday, having commemorated as Secretary Blinken has referred to the 43rd anniversary of the peace between Egypt and Israel. And we see constructive development in the normalization of relations and believe that the path that we set up on 43 years ago is coming to a greater fruition in the recognition of the importance and the viability of comprehensive peace and security for our region. This round of discussions has given us an opportunity to highlight views related to how we can further progress in achieving our common objectives. And it certainly did during these discussions, we did highlight the importance of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, the importance of maintaining the credibility and the viability of the two-state solution that for Israel and a Palestinian state to live side-by-side in peace with recognized borders for a Palestinian state in accordance with the 67 lines with East Jerusalem as its capital. This is an important issue in Egypt has been striving over the years to facilitate and to assist both Israel and the Palestinians to reach the necessary accommodation and compromise that can facilitate an end of the conflict and thereby open broader doors of regional cooperation, integration, and the benefits for the peoples of the region. And of course, we do so in collaboration and with the assistance of our partner, the United States of America, and we value very much the coordination that exists and the common understanding related to the path and the way forward. We certainly also consider and have on every occasion condemned all resort to violence, to terrorism, to incitement and believe that it is our role as members of the international community, but also as Arab states where there is a Muslim majority. As President Sestisi has always declared, we need to address the religious narrative and to confront extremism and terrorism and thereby provide peace and security for our region. Also, the importance of addressing the issue of extra regional intervention and the negative impact on the security and stability of our region. We believe that we have the resources and the ability to meet those challenges with the help of our partners in the United States and will continue to seek areas of cooperation that provide for our protection of our national security interests within a peaceful and cooperative framework. On all of these fronts, I think we have demonstrated our predictability, the dependence, the longevity of our peace with Israel, and that we are partners that can be dependent on and thereby we seek to enhance the areas of cooperation and interaction that can bring benefit to the region and to international peace and security. For all of these reasons, we look forward to continuing this dialogue and to reaching an understanding and a consensus of how best to deal with the very many issues. And here again, I think it is going to be incumbent and important on the short term to deal with the pressures that might arise and the importance of restricting a new lateral activity that might agitate the current situation and have an impact on the tranquility during a very sensitive and important time where we hope we can all direct our attention towards a higher cause rather than having to deal with crisis management. I thank you again for the opportunity and I welcome this dialogue. Thank you. Thank you very much, Your Excellency. I now have the pleasure of inviting His Excellency Mr. Nasser Burrita, Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation in Morocco and expatriates of the Kingdom of Morocco. Thank you. Please, sir. I would like to start by reiterating Morocco's strong condemnation of the terrorist attacks of yesterday in Hadera and present our sincere condolences to the victims and our wish of recovery to all the injured. Our presence today is, I think, the best response to such attacks. I'm very delighted to be here in Negev in this very historic and timely Negev Summit, or I should say first Negev Summit. And I would like to thank you, Ya-Yir, for the invitation, for choosing this very nice venue and for the hospitality. I would like also to thank you, Tony, for the presence, for the involvement, for the commitment. The United States has been a reliable partner in promoting peace. And your personal commitment to this endeavor is very important to us. Morocco's presence here and the instructions of His Majesty, King Mohammed VI, is meant to send two messages. The first one is to our host and to the people of Israel. As His Majesty, Mohammed VI, said, when we established the relations, this is not an opportunistic move. It's a move of confection. It's a natural decision based on these longstanding relations between Morocco, Israel, and the kings of Morocco, and the Moroccan Jewish community. You are saying here that maybe every Israeli has in his family someone with a Moroccan blood. It's not only a joke. It's a reality. I learned that two of the mayors of the main cities in the Negev, in Daimuna and in Yoram, are from Moroccan origin. And this shows this very close ties between the kingdom and the population. Since the signing of the tri-lateral declaration in December, I think we have achieved a lot. Visits, direct flights, agreements, and connecting people, which is also very important. Very soon there will be a formal bilateral visit, in which I think we will strengthen more our relations, including the diplomatic presence of Morocco here in Israel. The second message is to the region. And I think we are here today because we genuinely, sincerely, and deeply believe in peace. Not that kind of passive peace, where we turn our backs to each other and peacefully ignore each other. But rather, we believe in the thorough, fruitful, paradigm-shaping, and value-creating peace. The only kind of peace that is a battle worth waging, and I think our presence is a message to that, a message to our people and the message to the people of the region. We are here to create and to strengthen a positive dynamic, to create a different narrative about the relations between our people. And I'm coming from a country with a long-standing coexistence between people from different faiths. And if that model has been successful in Morocco for centuries, it can also be possible here in this region. This dynamic is not just a diplomatic. It should be tangible. It should be felt by the people. And it should go into concrete, positive action which improve the lives of the people and open new horizons for the youth in our region. And that's why we are here. We are here also to be a force of peace, and first to show that for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a solution is possible. And for His Majesty, King Mohammed VI, the position is constant. We are for a two-state solution, live side by side with the Palestinian states in the borders of 67 with East Jerusalem as capital. And a solution which will preserve the security and the interests of Israel. I think a message to the region, a positive one, but also a message to those who are enemies of this positive dynamic. Here in your region, also in North Africa, acting directly or through their proxies, our message should be that we are here to defend our values, to defend our interests, and that we are creating a shield to protect this positive dynamic. I think there should be a spirit of Negev, a spirit which is coexistence, which is tangible results, and which is building for peace and challenging positively those who are the enemies of this peace. I hope we'll meet very soon in a different desert, but with the same spirit. I thank you. Thank you very much, Your Excellency. I now have the honor to present His Highness Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed El Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the United Arab Emirates to address us. His Highness, please. Let me start by thanking our host.  And we are so grateful for your kind hospitality words. But also, let me thank everyone here. It just tells us all how much of a historic moment this is for everyone on the stage, but everyone in this room and beyond 43 years ago when Egypt and Israel made peace. Unfortunately, we lost those 43 years of knowing each other better, of working together, and of changing the narrative that many generations of Israelis and Arabs have been living. I think what we are trying to achieve here today is changing the narrative, creating a different future, and building on better hope for us and for our kids and grandkids. It's new for, I think, Abdullah Teev and Nasser and myself to be in Israel. This is our first time. So if we are curious sometimes, and we want to know things and learn, it's because although Israel has been part of this region for a very long time, we've not known each other. So it's time to catch up, to build on a stronger relationship. When I see 300,000 Israelis visiting the UAE in the last year and a half, but at the same time I see 2 million visitors visiting the Israeli Pavilion and Expo in only the last six months, it says how curious and how much we want to know each other. And this is what I think goes against what happened yesterday. It's by us standing together. It's by our people-to-people relationship. It's by creating a better environment for our businesses to work with each other. That's the way we can go after the narrative of hate, of incitement, of terror. We will prevail, no doubt. It's going to cost us, but it matters. It matters to us. And we can do better on so many areas that, other words, mentioned in this gathering or mentioned today or yesterday. It's clear to me that there is a huge potential and everyone is excited about it. And some Egypt showed us leadership 43 years ago. Thank you for that. We are just trying to follow your footsteps. And Tony, your presence here means a great deal. The United States not only being here, but encouraging us to do more and building for a better, stable, and prosperous future for all. Thank you very much. Thank you, Your Highness. Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes the first Negev summit. I would like to thank all our guests, the Excellencies, and the delegations for coming here to Israel to the Negev and hoping for many more Negev summits. Thank you. Thank you. This is the conclusion now you've been watching. If you've just tuned in here our live special coverage, this is what's been termed the Negev summit, major diplomatic gathering in the south of Israel here as the Israeli foreign minister, as hosted the foreign ministers of Egypt, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, and Morocco, as well as the Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, coming from the United States. Clearly now this is an unprecedented event as each of these foreign ministers took the time to highlight, again, these are the live speeches now concluding their gathering down here. This is, again, unprecedented and speaks to perhaps a new era of diplomacy for Israel as we've been detailing here. And we see still the live images coming from this, the warm embraces, the handshakes. So tangible, not just in the words of their address, but in the scenes we're seeing right here as well. This real friendship emerging between these countries, remarkable as it is, and we still have some of our guests here to speak about the situation in the studio. Again, we're leaving our viewers with these images for a moment, and it is just remarkable to see that the real intangible warmth being expressed between these delegates. But I'm in the studio with Ambassador Ravi Plasner, former Israeli ambassador to France and Italy and our senior international affairs correspondent, Owen Alterman, as well as I believe we're still joined from Manema by Bahraini columnist and journalist Abdullah al-Junaid. So thank you for being with us. Ambassador Plasner, I'm drawn to come to you first on just the diplomatic spectacle that this is, and we touched on this, how important these moments are, I think in that final speech here from the foreign minister, from the Emirates here, speaking so candidly, so from the heart it felt like, and I believe touching on those issues that he's so interested in talking about building real friendship, real connections, and how that's happening in these moments. Is that perhaps the most important thing that we're witnessing here today is the establishment of actual relations? You know, the picture is important, and moving, I must to say, I was moved. The words, yeah. And the words. And the words, I mean, you know, I was thinking, is that, am I dreaming? I mean, you know, again, I must repeat, I was raised in a completely different diplomatic environment. This is not imaginable.  And especially the last one, the foreign minister, Ben Zaid from the Emirate, speaking from his heart, saying, we have lost 43 years, we could have made peace with you before. I mean, you know, this is something unbelievable. At the same time, David, there was an elephant in the room, which was hardly mentioned, or not mentioned at all. No Arab foreign minister mentioned Iran. Yair Lapidiz. Not by name. And not by name, of course. But this was, this is the main subject. I believe, we will know more afterwards. I believe was the main subject. How do we counter this threat together with America? And I was thinking. David and I, when I was thinking, if America would take a look at the Middle East and see Israel, Egypt, Saudi, Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan, Oman, all of them together, are they not more important than Iran? Why is that so? Why do we run after disagreement with Iran? Giving them billions and billions that we know are going to be translated into terror activities, into nuclear activities. So, you know, maybe Blinken has opened his eyes this time. I hope so, because here I can see a real American interest to rethink. Maybe here we have a coalition with stronger and more important than Iran. Now, I want to go to Monomah here, as we do have, I've done it with us. Still, thanks for sitting there through all of this remotely, and thanks for being with us again here. I believe did hear the foreign minister from Bahrain mention some of the issues here. Touched on Iran, this reference there, and talk about the Palestinians and the desire to see more movement between Israel and the Palestinians here. What stood out to you in terms of this address? We've felt the warm embrace from Bahrain here, but was this a sign that there's been some business discussed in these halls of the summit as well? David, I think probably if anybody want to summon this whole summit, they better listen to what Abby have just said. This is a new dynamic. This is a new reality. This is a history in the making by the people of this region. He, as a diplomat, for him, it is not just a wasted opportunity for the past 34 years or more, but for him to see it happen now, and to have Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed or his Excellency, I believe, Sayyani, and the rest of the foreign minister speaking so openly, even for blinking. He found himself totally out of the the normal diplomatic narrative of Washington. And he had to join, and it's not just a euphoric reaction for the scattering, but realizing what is at stake. It is a whole new Middle East, and the United States better realize that it has failed. They need to recognize this. Abby, the United States has failed to contain Iran. Once they do that officially, I promise you, they're gonna turn the corner and come to this summit with a different heart and open eyes. Appreciate those. Senators, Ambassador Poussner, any response to our guest from Bahrain? It was very nice to hear that we think exactly the same thing. I mean, we think strategically. We think in the light of history. I mean, I can maybe understand why President Obama 12 years ago thought that Iran was so important because everybody's so divided in the Middle East, so Iran is, isn't it? But today, when you see the show of unity of those countries, I mean, there is here a lot of political weight, military weight, economical weight, more than Iran can offer the United States. And I completely agree with our honored guest from Bahrain that the Americans should rethink their position. There's still time. The deal has not yet been signed. The guard of the revolution have not yet been taken out of the terrorist list. There is still time to rethink. And my great hope is that Blinken here may rethink that and convey to Biden his thoughts on how maybe we made an error and it is still time to change. A lot of talk about that. And Owen will get your thoughts on this as the summit was called, announced that, oh, there's a chance to perhaps affect US policy here. Might that have happened? And what's your take on? What were the main US priorities in this summit? Yeah, well, listen, obviously, that's what these countries are hoping for, right? They're hoping that they collectively, and that, of course, is the key word, right? As you heard both from Avi Paznir and from Manema, that they collectively were able to make that impression on the United States. I have to say, though, although there was a kind of Voldemort complex, right, at the press conference, as Ron is the afters, whose name we will not speak, I wasn't all that troubled by that because I almost feel like a focus on the Iranian issue in a sense cheapens this event. I'll just think back, 20 and a half years ago, right after 9-11, how much ink was spilled? How many pixels were made out these calls? Where are the moderate Muslims who will come out and fight the extremists in their midst? Where are those who are gonna stand up for pluralism and human rights and reaching out to the other in the Islamic world? Ladies and gentlemen, you just saw it. You just saw it on your screen. You just heard it at the end so eloquently from Abdullah bin Zayed of the UAE, but of course not from only him, from each and every one of those Arab foreign ministers, really giving a whacking to the extremists in the Middle East and beyond, whether it be the ISIS groups who inspired or in some senses carried out that attack in Qadirah yesterday that was roundly condemned and of course Iran and its proxies. This is the answer from the Muslim world and they are sending in order to advance this the most costly signal possible because they wanna show how serious they are. They're sending the most costly signal possible. They're standing at that podium next, side by side with the Israeli foreign minister calling him by his first name and they're standing in the middle of the state of Israel near the tomb of David Ben-Gurion and they're doing it. That is a costly signal. That is a way of them signaling how serious they are about a genuine change within the Muslim world. Obviously, yes, there are strategic interests at play but I take at their word what at least what the Moroccan foreign minister said that there is an element of conviction here. There's an element of values. There's an element of going at trends in their own societies here and to me a focus on Iran would have cheapened all of that. It's so much larger. And Avi Pazmi, you work with Yitzhak Shamir. What would Yitzhak Shamir be saying about an event like this? It's so much larger than any one specific issue. He would not believe his eyes. I mean, he would be delighted. He went to Madrid but Madrid- With a lot of skepticism. With a lot of skepticism and a lot of afterthoughts and he would start the peace process very reluctantly because he really didn't believe his Arab neighbors. If he would have seen that, I mean he would have given a big muzzle to that kind of gathering. Now I want to come back to our again honored guest from Manama, I appreciate you being with us this entire time of Dala Junaid. And again, hearing the words from, we got a sampling of all these. Well, we don't have them anymore but I do appreciate that he was with us here and thank you again for joining us from Manama. Keep the discussion in studio with us here now. And oh, and so important that we did hear, I believe the Secretary of State mentioned Iran once by name in there. So it's trickling and clearly this is subject on the minds of all at the summit here but I think as you both have highlighted so deeply this is something much more on display here than just some summit to discuss Iran and likely there will be some positive movement coming out of this in terms of the issues that matter to all these countries. Look, in annual form, although I think there's gonna be some competition the Moroccan foreign minister hinted, he doesn't always want the negative summit to be in the negative. Even if it's Abraham's home turf as we just heard, he wants to bring it to Morocco, he seemed to hint and a wonderful competition, a welcome competition even if the East Hotel hotel chain might not agree. By the way, what a huge score for them having the summit at their still relatively new hotel in stable care. But yes, again, going back to what I was saying I think this is larger than any one issue. I think this is really a much deeper change and signals that much deeper change. There is still some fragility. Notably timed for the press conference itself, the Palestinians coming out and saying again that this is a futile endeavor, I'm paraphrasing that there's nothing to be coming out of this because it doesn't include us and it doesn't address our concerns. Again, there was a door open to the Palestinians but they at least at this point don't see a forum like this or joining it to be part of the consistent with their strategic interests. There will be those who again will go back to the old saying the Palestinians are missing, have never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity and that they're doing so yet again, trying to attack this forum rather than somehow try to embrace it and then bend it to the Palestinians will to some degree. That's a discussion they're gonna have to have among themselves about what to do. Foreign Minister Lapid himself. Extend that invitation to Palestinians. By the way, an interesting nuance. You did hear the Egyptian foreign minister, the Moroccan foreign minister essentially retraced the standard position about the parameters of Palestinian state. Right, 1967 lines, Easter's the capital. We didn't hear that from the Bahraini foreign minister. We heard a viable state. That was the only adjective. Ambassador Puzner closing thought here the minute we have left here on the Palestinians now who were mentioned, who were brought up, who were invited to be a part of this again and Jordanians who were not present here as well would let it be because of the Palestinians. What are your thoughts on those camps that we're missing from today? Both of all, I see the Jordanian as part of these countries aligned in that front, United Front against Iran. With the Palestinians, it is more complicated. We have our issue with the Palestinians which are not going to be solved within the next few months or maybe even within the next few years. But Yair Lapid said, why shouldn't they join also that kind of forum? And I think that this is a possibility.  Certainly, yeah. And bargain from within. And bargain from within. It's not for me to tell Palestinians what to do. They ultimately will have to make that decision for themselves, but you would have to imagine this is something they would want to consider. Well, certainly, as you both heard, I'm imagining a lot of room for optimism coming out of a diplomatic event like this. Thank you, Ambassador Avi Puzner. Thank you, Yair. Correspondent Owen Alterman and of course, Abdelal Junaid in Manama. Thanks for joining us here. You've been watching our special edition coverage of this landmark diplomatic summit in the south of Israel today, hosting so many allied nations from the region. I'm David Matlin live in Tel Aviv. Thanks for joining. 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Moving in for beyond the headlines to see how the top stories of the week are affecting real people. No commentary, no debate, just the best stories presented by our best germans. Strictly security. Your weekly look into security, intelligence, and strategic affairs. Analysis of the major security issues right here in the Middle East and around the globe. Join us for a close look at innovative military technology and get up to speed with what's happening in cyberspace. Thanks for joining us on I-24 News. I'm Emily Francis, and each week we're bringing you the best of our I-24 News Arabic and French channels. We start with, this is the caliph of the Muslims. With this phrase, opponents of Turkish president Erdogan criticized his reception of Israeli president Itzhak Herzog. Erdogan received his Israeli counterpart in a state ceremony with all of the trappings, reviving relations, and opening a new page after years of tensions between the two countries. But he also came under a lot of criticism led by Hamas, which confirmed its opposition to visits by Israeli officials to Arab and Islamic countries. Why has Erdogan been subjected to all of these attacks and criticism for receiving her Zog? Here's more in this next report. This is the caliph of the Muslims. With this phrase, opponents of Turkish president Erdogan received his Israeli counterpart Itzhak Herzog in a state ceremony with all of the trappings, reviving relations, and opening a new page after years of tensions between the two countries. Here's more in this next report. Itzhak Herzog received his Israeli counterpart in a state ceremony with all of the trappings, reviving relations, and opening a new page after years of tensions between the two countries. Itzhak Herzog received his Israeli counterpart in a state ceremony with all of the trappings, reviving relations, and opening a new page after years of tensions between the two countries. Here's more in this next report. 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When we come back we'll have more of the best of, and look at conversations with geopolitical specialists exploring the logic of Vladimir Putin and the multi-polar war. That's coming up next. Organism that pulsates through millennia. Taste it. Experience the Holy Land like never before. Holy Land uncovered every Sunday only on I-24 News. This best of episode in the conversation program last Wednesday, we interviewed a geopolitical scientist and specialist in Russia and former frontist MEP. In addition to exposing us to his vision of a multi-polar world, we wanted to know how Vladimir Putin sometimes seems to escape rational logic. Let's hear his answer. Psychoanalysis or psychiatry, it is useful today. You know, we can always try to please each other by diabolizing the opponent, by making them crazy. Personally, I don't believe in that. Do you think it's not crazy or do you think it's useless to take it for granted? I think both. I think he is an actor who remained a rational actor who made an extremely serious decision to launch his army in a neighboring country, but who at the same time is an actor who calculated his risks without a doubt, who has a plan that we don't know, because since the beginning of the crisis, we are betting or projecting on the opponent a certain number of readers who are ours. I think, for example, Blitzkrieg, the fact that we are waiting for a kind of quick victory or quick collapse against the Russian compressor. In fact, all this, we don't know what was thought. We don't know what the delay that President Putin gave us is. We know for sure that time plays against him. That's true on the economic level, even on the climate level, because spring is coming and it can be a hindrance for the movements of the Russian army. Yes, but if we follow you, you don't suspect it's not a single second of being crazy or being irrational. No, it's an actor who is rational. It's a rational actor, but who doesn't correspond to the criteria that are based on our time. He is in the world of power, indeed. But you know, before him, other states, since 1990, have launched wars, have piled up countries. He is in the world before. The world before, but the United States, the United States attacked Iraq in 2003 without legitimacy. And then there was the Yugoslav War. We have also, we have refilled the map of Europe. What I mean is that to understand, and you are right, Anad, to be in such a psychological lecture, it exists. I think that the psychology at Putin is that he is convinced that we are not actors of trust, that we ourselves have been tortured, torn up. We, Europe and the United States, we have tortured the international law. We have refilled the map of the States. We have led the war of ignorance, without necessarily having resolutions of the UN. We know it since 1990. You have to, to understand the opponent, you have to always try to understand how they reason. It's a rational actor who is convinced that diplomacy was useless and that it was necessary to be in the force, in the power, and to stop the progression of NATO since since 97, 14 countries have entered NATO. So on, you saw in the declarations of Eric Zemmour, it was at the end of February, the 28th of February, Putin is guilty and NATO is responsible. Do you share? Yes, so it's an interesting lecture, which is to say, it is guilty in the sense that it is the aggressor state, it aggresses it from the 24th of February and the responsibility is when it takes the field on the historical plan, that is to say the youth of the conflict. The conflict did not start on the 24th of February, there are seven years of non-application of the Minsk agreements. There were 14,000 deaths in the Donbass, civil populations. So NATO is responsible? I do not say NATO, but already France and Germany were normally in the Normandy format of the Minsk agreements. Why don't you apply these agreements? NATO, if we go back to 1990, you know, there was this famous assurance given to Mirail Gorbachev by James Baker that Russia would be associated with the European security architecture, that NATO would not go to Ukraine, to Georgia. So the point of view of the Russians is to say, you have not respected your word since the beginning. If we do not want to understand this, which is a reality, we cannot find the keys to get out of this conflict. And I think above all, civil populations who are suffering, and I think it is very dangerous to keep them in an illusion like the fund, a certain number of intellectuals that Europe, the United States will help them, that they have to fight until the end and die in their city, because we know very well that... This is illusion Zelensky. No, but it is even criminal in the measure where each one knows that we will not provoke a world war for Ukraine. So the question now is how do we save the Ukrainians? It's called the political reality. On December 15, 1961, Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was sentenced to death. His trial began on April 11, 1961 in Jerusalem. After spending 316 days in a specially designed prison in northern Israel, he finally paid the price for his heinous actions. Here's a visit of his former jail cell with his prison guard, Amron Luski. We are now inside the cell in which Eichmann has been staying for more than a year and a half. I am with Amron Luski. Amron Luski, hello. Was it here? It was here, the room. We stayed for about a year and a half. A big amount of water. So you cleaned the devil, as we call him. The devil, that's it. The day we received the mandate against him, he became a prisoner. Well, you told us he was kept by many guards, but you, and with another colleague of yours, were you armed? You were among the guards? There were two people who were armed. So you were part of these two people? Yes. Why were you armed? What were your fears? First of all, we were armed by him. My mother's weapon was always after the barrels. We couldn't be with him when we had to revolve. Neither me nor anyone else. Outside of the barrels, since we saw it, we couldn't turn our weapons. So the guards were like that. In the period when we kept him, it was a period where he was there. He did what he wanted, he had a table. He did what he wanted, but he was always on surveillance. Of course, there was a policeman who never let go of his eyes. So there was a door there too? No, there was no door. So there was no intimacy? No intimacy. He was doing everything a man could do. It was in front of us, on the side of us, and on surveillance, seeing him. What makes you here today? There is still emotion, because I feel like... There is always emotion. First of all, it's a period. There is the time that passed until now, 60 years ago. It's not a day. And the time I spent with him, it was a time when it was really after the war. After the war, we knew what was going on in the places we saw. Personally, I didn't know what was going on. That's why you were chosen. Yes, I was chosen. I don't know why. He had my dossier. He told me, you're going to be Sangam. When you knew what this man did, did you succeed in detaching yourself from these horrors? It was a work that we had to do. Not my own person. We had to do it. You didn't want to kill him at the time? We always wanted to. But killing him, no. There is justice. He must present himself as justice. He must be judged by judges. 6 millions of Jews. Yes, I know. There were 6 millions of Jews. He was judged. He still asked for the presidential grace. Unfortunately, he didn't give it to him.   I'm talking about frissons. I know. He was the one who represented an American society that sold cichlondis. And in cichlondis, he was presented, he sold it to kill the rats at the time. Just after the First World War, there were a lot of insects. How did he live on a daily basis? What did he do? He was a man that I don't know if he had a very big instruction. He was someone who came from a simple... A simple family. A simple family. And then... It was eclaire at the time. It was Nazism at the time who gave birth to Nazism. He had an attire towards the anti-Jews. He had an attire, not the Jews.  It was his dream. So when he had this role to do it, he was the leader of the Jewish section. So he did it. He did everything. It was the end of the Jews. The end. Ili Yalo is an Ethiopian-Israeli musician performing enclosure Ethiopian music, electronic music, dubstep, funk, blues, jazz, soul and reggae. Now he has a new single called En Sof, meaning Never Ending or Infinity. Let's listen to his words and music. Gili Yalo is the guest of the last episode. Good evening, Gili Yalo. You came with your drummer, Itamar Benzakai. Good evening, you too. So the last time we received you, Gili Yalo, it was four years ago, in 2018, and you sang in Amaric. But during this period of pandemic, you decided to let the book write in Hebrew, your language of adoption you immigrated to Israel at the age of five. Since Ethiopia, writing in Hebrew is something that was not so natural for you. I think that many artists have reticence in writing in Hebrew because it's very intimate, very direct. There is a lot of discussion about the use of Hebrew because these roots are so impregnant. It's a sacred language. Everything you write has a special force. When you write in Hebrew, there is a fear of criticism on the use of Hebrew language. Every word in Hebrew will always sound much better in English because Hebrew is very concrete while English has a lot more abstraction. Thank you very much Itamar Benzakai and Gili Yalo for coming to see us on the show. We leave in music, as I said, with infinite hands-off of Gili Yalo as I will tell you next week. That's it. These images haven't been seen in Europe for decades, but now they have become Ukraine's daily reality. As Russia wages war against the Ukraine, our correspondents are on the ground, on the streets, in cities, on the border, Ukraine under fire, special coverage, only on I-24 News. Strictly security, your weekly look into security, intelligence and strategic affairs. Our team brings the latest on the major international conflicts, analysis of the major security issues right here in the Middle East and around the globe. Join us for a close look at innovative military technology and get up to speed with what's happening in cyberspace. Saturdays, only on I-24 News. Breaking news again, but there's always more to the story, especially here in the Middle East. What's really going on in the region? Well, unless you're actually here, you can't really tell. Join us here at the feeding heart of the New Middle East to get a true perspective on what's really going on. The I-24 News says, now more details on and development. It is history in the making. When news breaks in the Middle East and around the world, our team of experienced journalists are here, around the clock. To keep you up to date with the news of the day, where it happens, when it happens. Stay tuned and stay informed. Every day on the hour. The heart of the New Middle East beats on I-24 News. 24 News live from Tel Aviv this hour. Thanks for joining us again as we focus in now, again on the day's events and beginning with the landmark event for the state of Israel. The foreign ministers, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Egypt, and US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, joined a diplomatic summit hosted by Israeli Foreign Minister Eir Lapid in Israel's southern Negev Desert. The two-day gathering of top diplomats just concluded with each delegate delivering an address. Firstly, thanking their host and giving genuine heartfelt remarks on the new era of friendship, so clearly emerging between the new allies. And for the part of the Israeli Foreign Minister, the plan was laid out that this event signals the beginning of more to come. Take a listen. This meeting is the first of its kind, but not the last. Last night, we decided to make the Negev Summit into a permanent forum. Together with our closest friend and ally, the United States, we are today opening a door before all the peoples of the region, including the Palestinians, and offering them to replace the way of terror and destruction with shared future of progress and success. And for more on the event, we go to our Middle East correspondent, Ariel Saran, who's at the event here. Ariel, such a tangible series of expressions of friendship here during that series of speeches, another astounding display of this new diplomatic era that we're in. What was your impression in person? Yeah, David, the warm ties and the friendship between all six foreign ministers was very noticeable. Some even hugged after the joint statement to the press. They were very friendly in their remarks to one another. And this really is one of the main kind of vibes coming out from this historic summit, which we really saw an unprecedented scene. Six foreign ministers, four of them from Arab countries sitting around one table standing on one stage together. Now the headline of this summit is what we just heard earlier, Israel's Foreign Minister Yehud Lapid announcing the formation of a new regional security forum that will take place, that will convene once a year here in the Negev. As he said, everyone's invited, everyone in the region is invited, including the Palestinians. Now on that note, obviously, they were the elephant in the room that were not in attendance. All visiting foreign ministers called on the Israelis and the Palestinians to renew peace talks to resume negotiations based on a two-state solution. And another key issue coming out from the statements of all foreign ministers is a strong condemnation of yesterday's deadly terror attack in Chadera, which killed two in which two border police personnel were murdered. Now on that note, Morocco's foreign minister, Nasser Burrita said that the fact that all six are present on one stage together is, quote, the true response, is the best response to such attacks. Another memorable statement was made at the end. The final speaker was the UAE's foreign minister, Abdullah bin Zayed. He said he referred to the 43-year anniversary to the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt that was marked just two years ago. He said that the Arab partners on that stage are following the footsteps of the Egyptian leadership and they have 43 years of lost relations with Israel, relations that they hope now through summits just like this that ended in the Khedma hotel behind me in Sdebuker, that these will become more prevalent, more common. And so a warm atmosphere here between a convergence, one may say, between the old peace and the new here in Israel's Negev. Ariel, also around our Middle East correspondent, thank you for bringing us those closing remarks and sentiments coming from this event, again the two-day event that just wrapped up since the last hour as we covered it. So thank you for that coverage. Again, our viewers are seeing some of the live images there. Still summing up that event here, again, we'll have much more of the recap for you in the hours to come. But again, attention to it by all the delegates at that event, the two Israeli border police officers killed in that terror attack last night. Named as Shirel Abu-Kharaten, Yazin Afalak, both 19 years old in their national service. They were credited with taking quick action, perhaps even saving the lives of others around as they engaged those shooters, as they suddenly revealed concealed weapons near a bus stop in Khedera, opening fire. The two attackers that you see here were heavily armed by the Israeli incident, identified as Israeli citizens' supporters of the Islamic State. Notably, this shooting came just days after a separate deadly terror attack from the city of Beersheva, Israel's south also, committed by an Israeli citizen with ties to the Jihadist group. The attack featured in the talking points of these visiting diplomats, as we mentioned, here's more. Shortly after the attack, Islamic Jihad and Hamas responded. They declared that it was a response to the negative summit we are holding here. The terrorist goal is to intimidate us, to make us afraid to meet and to build a relationship and the agreements between us. They will not succeed. On behalf of President Biden, the American people, we stand our heartfelt condolences to the loved ones of the victims, Yazin Falah and Sharia Abu Karat. No family should have to experience such loss. And we stand in absolute solidarity with our friends and partners against terrorism and these horrific acts of violence. And I would like to convey our condolences to the bereaved families and reaffirm our firm stands against terrorism in all its forms. Our role as members of the international community but also as Arab states states where there is a Muslim majority as President Sisi has always declared that we need to address the religious narrative and to confront extremism and terrorism and thereby provide peace and security for our region. Our presence today is I think the best response to such attacks. I hear more on the incident itself our Pierre Kloschenler spent the day at the site of the attack. People have been hit. Two people died and the residents of this city have been hit by shock and grief and there are small expressions of grief in the streets where the terror attack yesterday perpetrated by two Islamic states militant from Israel killed two border police officers 19 years old. Now you have people praying for the ascension of the soul of the two victims and you have a poster here of the two victims Shirel Abu Karat and Yazan Farah and an inscription which says we share the sorrow of the families expressions also of resolve as young high school girls came here and paraded with flags chanting the Israeli national anthem and also chanting patriotic and religious songs in order to give determination more resolve to the residents of this city there was also soldiers from the infantry Golan brigade who ran with their flag also in order to give courage to the residents of the city and here just beside me another man is praying for the ascension of the soul of the two victims this is Pierre Klosch and Lair I-24 news Khadera central Israel again thank you to our Pierre Klosch and Lair who's been covering the aftermath of that attack in Khadera since it occurred there now that brings us to the end of the broadcast of course we have the upbeat note of that diplomatic summit that concluded just this last hour as well more on that and all the days top news for you here at I-24 news in the hours to come I'm David Matlin live in Tel Aviv thanks for joining a historic summit for ministers of the United States Israel Egypt United Arab Emirates Bahrain and Morocco convening for the first time in Israel to talk to policy and security and I-24 news will be there to break down the event and explain what it means for Israel the region and the world special coverage Sunday and Monday only on I-24 news these images haven't been seen in Europe for decades but now they have become Ukraine's daily reality as Russia wages war against the Ukraine our correspondents are on the ground on the streets in cities on the border Ukraine under fire special coverage only on I-24 news what if you could be part of the most important trending conversations stories happening now right around the globe what divides us what unites us let us take you on an adventure through it all every night here on Global Eye thank you for staying with us when the war in Ukraine broke out on the morning of February 24th Russia was hoping for a quick and swift operation which would end within days that is obviously not happening as the Russians are not only stuck in their positions in some places they are actually thrown backwards following Ukrainian attacks I-24 news defense correspondent Jonathan Regev with the details a month into the war Ukraine and its unclear how and when this tragedy will end one thing that is clear is that the original Russian plan of a quick blitz and takeover of Ukraine was an unrealistic scenario the plan called for Russian forces to besiege Kiev from all directions some of them even bearing Soviet marks and then take over the Ukrainian capital but while the Russians found themselves around Kiev after a few days going into the city has proven a totally different story a column was moving towards Kiev the column was big but our ambush was organized we destroyed the head of the column and went on to hit on their entire regiment the soldiers worked the ambush perfectly the past few days have seen Russian forces retreating following several successful Ukrainian counter-attacks especially around the capital our mechanical brigades the artillery units have improved their abilities their task is not to allow the enemy to get closer and give adequate resistance the enemy is suffering heavy losses Ukrainian forces conducted successful counter-attacks in the villages of Brobary Irpin and Makhariv pushing back Russian forces planning to attack Kiev from the west, north and east while this is taking place just outside Kiev other forces are engaging the Russian army in Chernihiv which sits on the main road from Belarus to Ukraine it is the road meant to be used by Russia to supply its forces at the front but it is unable to secure the road due to heavy resistance we will be clearing the villages of those evil forces who occupied them with their armored cars according to our intelligence there's a Russian battalion there it should be said that Russian forces still hold most of their positions and are not planning to go anywhere Ukraine with its offensive spirit and constant supply of ammunition from the west is not showing any sign of surrendering with this being the reality suffering and death are there to stay moving on to Israel tensions have reached a boiling point this week with a deadly terror attack in Israel's southern city of Beersheba Bedouin men on their rampage murdered four people raising concern among Israeli authorities the fact that their assault was performed by a Bedouin with no connections to Palestinians but with a prior admiration for ISIS has forced officials to enhance security precautions within the country more in the next report the deadliest attack on Israeli civilians in years four civilians stabbed and murdered in the southern city of Beersheba by 34-year-old Mohammad Ghallab Abu Al-Qaian from the Bedouin town of Hurra in the Negev region in southern Israel a former elementary school teacher Al-Qaian was released from prison in 2019 after serving four years for trying to recruit others to the Islamic State Terror Group to fight in Syria before being released in 2019 reports say he insisted he regretted his actions but the prosecutors at this trial had described him as a ticking time bomb even though the vast majority of terror attacks in Israel like the recent stabbing attacks in Jerusalem are carried out by Palestinians not Israeli members of the Bedouin community like Abu Al-Qaian following Tuesday's attack police arrested two of Al-Qaian's brothers although not suspected of involvement they may have seen Abu Al-Qaian leave the house with the knife his family claim he acted alone the IDF and security forces will use all of its measures in order to prevent as many terror attacks as possible we are on high alert in all sectors we will make sure that those who encourage these attacks will pay the price officials fear Tuesday's tragedy could trigger copycat attacks or a surge of lone wolf terror attacks in Israel similar to 2016 they are now reported to be collecting intelligence on Bedouin Israelis suspected as possible terrorists in recent months residents of southern Israel have been complaining about anarchy within the Bedouin community state comptroller Matanyahu Engelman refers to the Negev as a zone of lawlessness especially in the Bedouin sector pointing to rampant violence and now I'd like to welcome former Jerusalem Palestinian Affairs expert and former Kogat Advisor Alon Eviatar and in Ramallah Palestinian security analyst Mohamed Najib thank you both for joining me today so Alon I'll start with you looking from Israel after this terror attack which was not connected to the Palestinian arena in any way but still we have Ramadan within 10 days and we have Pesach the Jewish holiday and Easter the Christian one all