US President Donald Trump announced on Friday (September 11, 2020) an agreement to establish full diplomatic relations between Israel and Bahrain.

Jared Kushner, adviser and son-in-law of US President Donald Trump, visited Bahrain to pressure it for normalization with Israel, like the UAE, Reuters reported.

Bahrain said Wednesday it was committed to the creation of a Palestinian state in talks with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, implicitly rejecting his push for Arab countries to swiftly normalise ties with Israel.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo will travel to Bahrain to meet the Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, within a tour in the region that includes Sudan, the Emirates and Israel, a statement issued the US Department of State said.

Thursday, August 13, 2020, was heavy on Arabs in general and the Gulf in particular. It was as dark as the color of the ink in which Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed signed a US-sponsored normalization agreement with Israel.

US President Donald Trump announced on Thursday (August 13, 2020) reaching a historic agreement between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel in which they normalize diplomatic ties.

Senior White House officials on Friday sought to use the momentum from a historic deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates to appeal to more Arab and Muslim countries to set aside long-standing tensions and make similar agreements.

Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced on Thursday (August 13, 2020) that they will normalize diplomatic ties and forge a broad new relationship, a move that reshapes the order of Middle East politics from the Palestinian issue to Iran.

Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society said that any support or endorsement of the "deal of the century", aimed at putting an end to the Palestinian cause, is treason, calling on the Arab and Islamic peoples to reject the deal.

US President Donald Trump thanked Oman, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates for participating in the announcement of his administration's peace plan, known as the "Deal of the Century", amid Palestinian rejection.

US President Donald Trump announced the deal of the century aimed at ending the Palestinian issue, on Tuesday (January 28, 2020) at a press conference in the presence of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu amid the absence of any representative of the Palestinian authority.

Hezbollah denounced the normalizing conference organized by the Bahraini kingdom under the pretext of "...religious freedom..." with noticeable Zionist participation.

Bahrain's main opposition group, Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, deemed the invitation of the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem Al-Quds, Shlomo Amar, to attend a conference in Bahrain as a "hostile and provocative stance to the Bahraini people and the Arab and Islamic nations."

Former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel Shlomo Amar concluded a visit to Bahrain, and met King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.

A senior Israeli official attended a maritime security conference in Bahrain on Monday in another sign of Gulf Arab nations and Israel transcending longtime enmities to focus on a perceived common threat from Iran.

The Bahraini Minister of Foreign Affairs Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa continues to surprise people time and time again. Whenever one thinks that the Bahraini regime has reached rock bottom, this minister surprises everyone and stoops to an even lower level.

The Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Yisrael Katz congratulated his Bahraini counterpart Khaled bin Ahmed Al Khalifa on the occasion of Eid Al-Adha, looking forward to seeing him again.

The King of Bahrain Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa has rejected a request by Israel to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Manama, the Saudi newspaper "Elaph" reported.

The Palestinian Hamas movement said that the picture that brought together the foreign ministers of Bahrain and Israel in Washington reflects the state of the "Zionism" reached by some Arab officials.

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz on Thursday announced that he had met his Bahrain counterpart publicly during a visit to Washington, the first meeting between the two countries that do not have diplomatic relations.