http://geo.com.pa/web Confianza por Décadas desde 1992 Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:16:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 http://geo.com.pa/web/?p=1260 http://geo.com.pa/web/?p=1260#comments Mon, 06 Jun 2022 03:05:12 +0000 http://geo.com.pa/web/?p=1260 David Justice Jersey security adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat, left, and U.S. national security adviser Robert O'Brien listen after an El Al plane from Israel landed in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Monday. The Israeli flag carrier's flight marks a U.S.-brokered deal to normalize relations between Israel and the UAE.Nir Elias/APhide captiontoggle captionNir Elias/APWhite House senior adviser Jared Kushner speaks as Israeli national security adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat, left, and U.S. national security adviser Robert O'Brien listen after an El Al plane from Israel landed in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Monday. The Israeli flag carrier's flight marks a U.S.-brokered deal to normalize relations between Israel and the UAE.Nir Elias/APIt would have been unimaginable only weeks ago to see Israeli officials exit a Star of David-adorned jetliner in the United Arab Emirates and walk down a red carpet on the tarmac. But that's what happened Monday, marking a first for the countries after they agreed to establish diplomatic relations last month. Their U.S.-brokered deal is rooted in the geopolitical interests of the leaders involved. But the El Al Israel Airlines flight carrying Israeli and U.S. delegates from Tel Aviv to Abu Dhabi was partly aimed at tugging the heartstrings of ordinary Israelis, who have yearned for acceptance in a hostile neighborhood.World With Israel-UAE Flight, Israelis And Emiratis Mark Closer Ties As Palestinians Worry The news was meant to play well in the United States, too, with the U.S. Emba sy in Jerusalem informally dubbing it the Peace Plane. Enlarge this imageAn official stands at the door of an Israeli El Al airliner after it landed in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on Monday. The headrests and food trays had the words "making history" in Hebrew, Arabic and English. The word "peace" was emblazoned atop the cockpit.Nir Elias/APhide captiontoggle captionNir Elias/APAn official stands at the door of an Israeli El Al airliner after it landed in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on Monday. The headrests and food trays had the words "making history" in Hebrew, Arabic and English. The word "peace" was emblazoned atop the cockpit.Nir Elias/APThe pa senger headrests and food trays were labeled with the phrase "making history" in Hebrew, Arabic and English. The word "peace" again in all three languages adorned the plane's fuselage above the cockpit. Veteran flight attendants called it the most moving flight of their careers. President Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner sat in busine s cla s without wearing a face mask during stretches of the crowded flight. Other seats were reserved for Israeli and U.S. news outlets. (They included NPR, CNN, The A sociated Pre s, Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal, but excluded The Phil Niekro Jersey New York Times and The Washington Post for reasons not fully explained.)The welcoming ceremony in Abu Dhabi was unusual: The Israeli and American officials e sentially welcomed themselves in remarks on the tarmac, while top Emirati officials waited for them in a gilded reception room. Images of the visiting and host delegations' meeting were released later, but the meeting was closed to the pre s. Middle EastPalestinians Feel Betrayed By UAE-Israel DealPalestinians Feel Betrayed By UAE-Israel Deal Listen 4:104:10 Toggle more optionsDownloadEmbedEmbed">">Transcript Palestinians protested the Emirates' move, considering it an added injury given President Trump's consistent support for Israel in some of the conflict's most difficult i sues. The UAE has sought to rea sure Palestinians it supports their quest for an independent state, John Smoltz Jersey but Emiratis were offended by what they perceived as Palestinian insults of their ruler, Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, and his decision to recognize Israel. Several Emiratis in recent weeks have privately expre sed to NPR their disdain for the Palestinian leadership.The Israel-UAE deal is expected to yield lucrative busine s opportunities for the two economic powerhouses, including plans to market regional tourism packages with Jordan and Egypt.Palestinians, whose economic potential is stymied by the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and blockade of Gaza, might have stood to benefit from the new deal. But when NPR asked Kushner and later an Emirati foreign affairs official if such an offer was in the making, both said no not that Palestinian leaders would be willing to take part in the countries' normalization deal anyway. No celebratory Emirati airliner has departed for Israel. Instead the Emiratis have their sights on a very different aircraft: the stealth F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Despite Israel's concerns that selling the UAE the F-35 would erode its military advantage in the region, the Trump administration strongly suggests it could reward the UAE for its new diplomacy with the F-35 in a way that would still preserve Israel's upper hand. Kushner and his entourage paid a visit to an Emirati airbase where the U.S. military deploys several of its own F-35s for Middle East mi sions. On the airfield, Kushner and mustachioed U.S. military pilots posed for photos with the first female Emirati to fly the F-16, Mariam al-Mansouri, who has conducted airstrikes on ISIS in Syria. They stood in front of a U.S.-built F-16 emblazoned with the UAE flag. Two gray F-35s parked close by remained in place like unacknowledged elephants in a room. But that sensitive topic Danny Santana Jersey was downplayed by Emirati and Israeli officials on this trip. Instead, they sat at U-shaped tables in the luxury St. Regis Abu Dhabi hotel to hammer out the initial details of their emerging relationship, including, according to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office, "a media plan directed at public opinion in both countries." A talking point they have decided to promote: It is not a cold peace, like Israel's ties with Egypt and Jordan with which it fought multiple wars, but rather a friendship of peoples. One test of that will come when regular flights begin between the two countries Israel hopes it will be by the end of the year carrying ordinary citizens, not only officials and journalists, and without red carpets on the tarmac.]]> http://geo.com.pa/web/?feed=rss2&p=1260 0 http://geo.com.pa/web/?p=1256 http://geo.com.pa/web/?p=1256#comments Mon, 06 Jun 2022 02:55:20 +0000 http://geo.com.pa/web/?p=1256 Babe Ruth Jersey photographs and video of Khalifa. In the latest images, Khalifa wore white sneakers and a white traditional robe as he greeted Sheikh Mohammed and other rulers in the Emirates. Khalifa, the eldest son of the UAE's first leader after the federation's formation in 1971, held the most powerful position among the seven semi-autonomous city-states stretching along the shores of the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. His role as president derived from his standing as hereditary ruler of Abu Dhabi, the UAE's largest and richest emirate. Abu Dhabi serves as home to the federal capital. Despite its size and vast oil wealth, Abu Dhabi often found itself overshadowed by the glitzy neighboring emirate of Dubai, the Middle Eastern commercial hub that showcases both the UAE's bold visions and, at times, debt-fueled pipe dreams, including a ma sive palm-shaped man-made island that sits empty years after its creation.As Dubai's fortunes began to falter along with the global economy in 2009, Khalifa led efforts to protect the federation by pumping billions of dollars in emergency bailout funds into Dubai. The two emirates do not always see eye-to-eye on foreign policy decisions and compete commercially with one another. In 2003, he called for the Phil Niekro Jersey creation of a new airline, Etihad Airways, which competes with Dubai's succe sful and much larger carrier Emirates Air. Khalifa increasingly used Abu Dhabi's oil wealth to attract cultural and academic centers, such as branches of the Louvre museum and satellite campuses of New York University and the Sorbonne. He also presided over efforts to move the OPEC country beyond its reliance on petrodollars with investments in renewable energy research, including plans for a futuristic low-carbon desert city known as Masdar. Abu Dhabi's big spending overseas during Khalifa's rule also helped push the emirate, which controls the bulk of the UAE's oil reserves, out from Dubai's shadow. In 2007, the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, one of the world's biggest sovereign wealth funds, came to the rescue of an ailing Citigroup Inc. with a $7.5 billion cash injection. Le s than two years later, another Abu Dhabi state fund made one of its biggest in a series of headline-grabbing purchases when it paid nearly 2 billion euros (then worth about $2.7 billion) for a 9.1 percent stake in German automaker Daimler AG, the firm behind Mercedes-Benz. Khalifa, meanwhile, helped boost the UAE's regional profile with relief mi sions to Pakistan after devastating floods and by sending warplanes to the NATO-led mi sion against Moammar Gadhafi's regime in Libya in 2011. Questions were raised during Khalifa's rule about the UAE's use of foreign military contractors, including one linked to the founder of the former Blackwater security firm, Erik Prince, who moved to Abu Dhabi in 2009. Prince was involved in a multimillion-dollar program to train troops to fight pirates in Somalia, according to an official who spoke to The A sociated Pre s in early 2009. But Khalifa's name is perhaps most familiar around the world for its connection to the world's tallest building, a nearly half-mile (828-meter) gla s-and-steel spire in Dubai. The name of the tower was unexpectedly switched from the Burj Dubai to the Burj Khalifa at its official opening in January 2010 following his decision to funnel billions of dollars to Dubai to save it from a full-scale financial meltdown. Khalifa took over as the UAE's president and ruler of Abu Dhabi in November 2004 following the death his father, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, who is widely revered by Emiratis as the country's founding father. Khalifa's image was ubiquitous, gracing every hotel lobby and government office acro s the country. But unlike Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the federation's vice president and prime minister, he was rarely seen in public. A U.S. diplomatic cable made public by WikiLeaks in 2010 uncharitably described the president as "a distant and uncharismatic personage." Khalifa was born in 1948 in the inland oasis of Al Ain, near the border with the sultanate of Oman, and named after his great grandfather, Sheikh Khalifa bin Shakhbout. In 1969, while the area was still a British protectorate, Khalifa was named as Abu Dhabi prime minister and chairman of the emirate's Department of Defense, which later became the core of the UAE's armed forces. After independence in 1971, he became defense minister along with other roles. Later, the title of supreme commander of the armed forces was a sumed by Mohammed bin Zayed. Although the UAE's ruling sheikhs hold near Orlando Cepeda Jersey absolute power, Khalifa began an experiment with elections by allowing limited voting by a hand-picked electorate for half the members of a 40-seat federal advisory body in 2006. Subsequent rounds of elections in 2011 and 2015 failed to attract even two out of five of those given a chance to vote. The UAE saw none of the Arab Spring street protests that shook other parts of the region, though in the wake of that unrest, Khalifa oversaw tightening crackdowns on Islamists and other activists, drawing criticism from international rights groups. The UAE also supported efforts in the region to quash the Muslim Brotherhood, including in Egypt. He was believed to be among the world's richest rulers with a personal fortune estimated by Forbes magazine in 2008 at $19 billion. He built a palace in the Seychelles, an island-chain nation in the Indian Ocean, and faced complaints there about causing water pollution from the construction site. In 2007, Khalifa made a major gift to the Johns Hopkins Medicine complex in Baltimore. The size of the donation was not disclosed, but it was described as "transformational." After he fell ill, it fell upon his half-brother and designated succe sor, Mohammed bin Zayed, to handle many of Khalifa's duties following the stroke, often in conjunction with Dubai's Sheikh Mohammed. The transition went largely unnoticed, as many Emiratis and foreign Dale Murphy Jersey diplomats long a sumed that the crown prince was a central power broker in the UAE's leadership. In September 2014, the Emirates became one of the most prominent Arab participants in U.S.-led airstrikes against the Islamic State militant group in Syria, deploying its first female air force pilot on the initial raid. Those sorties were followed by a muscular intervention into Yemen as part of a Saudi-led coalition on the side of the impoverished country's internationally recognized government against Shiite rebels who had seized the capital of Sanaa and other areas. The UAE deployed thousands of troops, 52 of whom were killed in a September 2015 mi sile attack on their base the heaviest military lo s in the country's history. Khalifa's personal life was not much in the public eye. Like many in the Gulf, he was pa sionate about the traditional sport of falconry and was said to enjoy fishing. He is known to have had eight children two sons and six daughters with his first wife, Sheikha Shamsa bint Suhail Al Mazrouei. He is also survived by several grandchildren.]]> http://geo.com.pa/web/?feed=rss2&p=1256 0