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On his first full day as president, Obama called on Israel to open the borders of Gaza, detailing early plans on his administration's peace plans for the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Obama and Secretary of State Clinton named George Mitchell as Special Envoy for Middle East peace and Richard Holbrooke as special representative to Pakistan ...
President Obama sent Special Envoy for Middle East peace George Mitchell on an 8-day tour of the Middle East starting on January 26, 2009, in which Mitchell met with the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and the Israeli army chief of staff Lt. General Gabi Ashkenaz to discuss the peace process along with ...
Abraham Accords. The Abraham Accords are bilateral agreements on Arab–Israeli normalization signed between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and between Israel and Bahrain on September 15, 2020. [1] [2] Mediated by the United States, the announcement of August 13, 2020, concerned Israel and the UAE before the subsequent announcement of an ...
The 2000 Camp David Summit was a summit meeting at Camp David between United States president Bill Clinton, Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat. The summit took place between 11 and 25 July 2000 and was an effort to end the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. The summit ended without an agreement ...
The Camp David Accords were a pair of political agreements signed by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on 17 September 1978, [1] following twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David, the country retreat of the President of the United States in Maryland. [2] The two framework agreements were signed at ...
The Israel–Jordan peace treaty (formally the " Treaty of Peace Between the State of Israel and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan "), [Note 1] sometimes referred to as the Wadi Araba Treaty, [1] is an agreement that ended the state of war that has existed between the two countries since the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and established mutual ...
The United Nations Peacekeeping efforts began in 1948. [1] Its first activity was in the Middle East to observe and maintain the ceasefire during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. Since then, United Nations peacekeepers have taken part in a total of 72 missions around the globe, 12 of which continue today. The peacekeeping force as a whole received ...
Prior to 1980, Haiti had an embassy in Jerusalem, the disputed capital city of Israel, but moved it to Tel Aviv following United Nations Security Council Resolution 478. Modern history. Currently, Jewish-Haitian businessman, Gilbert Bigio is the honorary consul of Israel in Haiti, and has a large Israeli flag flying outside his home. "There has ...