Mike Pence, former vice-president of the United States, will visit Israel and then Morocco next March. A visit placed under the sign of the strengthening of the Abraham Accords. Former US Vice President Mike Pence will travel to the Jewish state on March 7 for a two-day visit before heading to Morocco.
In Morocco, Mike Pence will meet Moroccan “senior government officials”, said Tom Rose, who will be part of the delegation. But his schedule has not yet been finalized. While in the White House, the former Vice President of the United States had played a behind-the-scenes role in influencing many of Donald Trump’s administration’s major foreign policy achievements in the Middle East, including the normalization agreements between Israel and a number of Arab countries known as the Abraham Accords.
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Mike Pence was the “orchestra conductor” of the behind-the-scenes efforts to bring regarding the signing, in 2020, of the agreements to normalize relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Sudan, Bahrain and Morocco. The occasion of the former US vice president’s trip to Israel will also be the opportunity to accept an honorary doctorate from Ariel University, according to Jewish Insider, an Israeli news site. According to the same source, David Friedman, the former US ambassador to Israel, will also receive a degree alongside Pence.
As a reminder, during Donald Trump’s mandate, Mike Pence sometimes stood out from the president’s outbursts or his radical positions such as that of prohibiting American territory to foreigners of the Muslim faith.