Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has visited Bahrain as part of a push to boost regional ties with Gulf Arab countries following the signing of the Abraham Accords in 2020. The World’s host Marco Werman spoke with Hussein Ibish, a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, about what’s a stake for the regional partnerships.
Thursday morning, two major opposition leaders and several others were jailed in Bahrain. “The whole idea that there was going to be a dialogue between the government and those seeking reform seems to have gone by the wayside,” says The New York Times’ Ethan Bronner, who is covering the story from Manama.