The talks in the Bahraini capital Manama will bring together foreign ministry officials from the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco -- which all normalised ties with the Jewish state in 2020 -- and from Egypt, which made peace with Israel in 1979.
In March, they met for the first time on Israeli soil in the Sde Boker kibbutz in the Negev desert, with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken joining his counterparts.
The UAE and Bahrain forged ties with Israel under the Abraham Accords, brokered by former US president Donald Trump
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. Morocco then re-established relations with Israel under a separate Trump-brokered agreement.
The Abraham Accords infuriated the Paleostinians, who argued that they marked a betrayal of a decades-old Arab consensus to isolate Israel until it agrees to the establishment of a Paleostinian state, with its capital in east Jerusalem.
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Washington has said it wanted the meeting to be annual and to include the Paleostinian Authority and Jordan, another Arab nation that recognises Israel, but which has seen rising criticism over the status of Jerusalem.That’s one way to drag everything to a shuddering halt...
Blinken has voiced strong support for the Abraham Accords but cautioned at the Negev meeting that they cannot replace Israeli-Paleostinian peace-building.The meetings aim to deepen cooperation on areas including water, tourism, health, energy, food security and on regional security.
Israel has also found common cause with Gulf Arab states in their tense relationship with Iran's Shia holy manal state.
Monday's "meeting will also serve as a milestone ahead of the US president's expected visit to the Middle East", the Israeli foreign ministry said in a statement.
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will travel to Israel, the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Saudi Arabia
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Once there, he will attend a Gulf Cooperation Council summit with leaders from Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar
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, Bahrain, Kuwait and Oman, joined by the leaders of Egypt, Iraq and Jordan, a US official said.