The United States seeks to normalize Indonesia’s relations with the Zionist regime
According to the website on Thursday AxiusZionist officials said US and Israeli officials had discussed ways to expand the Ibrahim Accord in recent months, and that the issue of Indonesia had been raised.
However, they stressed that such an action (normalization of relations) is not imminent.
US State Department spokesman Ned Price told Axius “We are always looking for additional opportunities for normalization, but we are leaving these talks behind closed doors until the right time,” he said.
A senior US official also said that the administration of US President Joe Biden is silently but quite persistently trying to expand the agreements, although this may take time.
To write AxiusIndonesia is one of the countries where the administration of former US President Donald Trump made many efforts to add the country to the Ibrahim agreement, but the negotiations did not succeed until the end of Trump’s presidency.
According to former US officials, Jakarta at the time called for an increase in the level of trade agreement with Washington in exchange for steps to normalize relations, such as establishing direct flights and issuing visas to Israelis.
According to the report, despite the lack of diplomatic recognition, senior Indonesian and Israeli officials have met secretly several times in the past two decades, mostly on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.
It is also said that Eyal Holata, Israel’s national security adviser, met with Indonesian Defense Minister Prabuo Subianto at a conference in Bahrain last November.
After accompanying a Zionist diplomat to the conference, Subianto issued a statement saying that dialogue with Israeli officials was not prohibited when it was in the national interest.
Indonesia is one of the Muslim-majority countries in the world but has no diplomatic relations with the Zionist regime. The Biden government is working to strengthen the Ibrahim Agreement, which the UAE and Bahrain signed last year with the Zionist regime as the first countries, and is looking beyond the Middle East.
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