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On 22 October, the President of the Palestine Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, went on an official visit to Oman. His visit was hot on the heels of that of the Israeli Head of State, Benjamin Netanyahu, who visited just four days before.
Oman didn’t used to have diplomatic relations with Israel. Mr Netanyahu’s visit had been kept a secret. Inflicted by an aggressive cancer, Sultan Qabous has been very seriously ill for three years. It was on account of these visits that he made his first public (...)

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