{"id":20593,"date":"2018-10-31T23:22:33","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T23:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20593"},"modified":"2018-10-31T23:22:33","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T23:22:33","slug":"oman-minister-visits-ramallah-after-netanyahu-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20593","title":{"rendered":"Oman minister visits Ramallah after Netanyahu talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1397176\/middle-east\" readability=\"42\">\n<p>\nRAMALLAH: An Omani minister met Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Wednesday and delivered a letter about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s surprise visit to the Gulf sultanate last week, official Palestinian media said.<br \/>Yusuf bin Alawi, minister in charge of foreign affairs, gave Abbas the letter from Oman\u2019s Sultan Qaboos, official Palestinian news agency WAFA said.<br \/>It gave no further details on their discussions in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank.<br \/>The Palestinians have been concerned by Israel\u2019s bid for rapprochement with Gulf countries.<br \/>Frozen peace efforts and Israel\u2019s continued occupation of Palestinian territory have been obstacles to Israeli attempts to win official recognition from countries in the region.<br \/>But there has long been talk of under-the-radar contacts, particularly regarding Iran, which is the enemy both of Israel and Gulf states.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAMALLAH: An Omani minister met Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Wednesday and delivered a letter about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s surprise visit to the Gulf sultanate last week, official Palestinian media said.Yusuf bin Alawi, minister in charge of foreign affairs, gave Abbas the letter from Oman\u2019s Sultan Qaboos, official Palestinian news agency WAFA said.It&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":20594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}