July 25, The Iran Project � Arab elites strongly condemned the visit of Saudi retired General Anwar Eshki and a delegation of Saudi academics and business people with Israeli officials.

Following the retired Saudi General Anwar Eshki's visit to Israel which was made to expand the relations between Tel Aviv and Riyadh, a number of Arab elites expressed their dissatisfaction.

As an Arab citizen, I strongly rejects Eshki's travel to Occupied Palestine and his meeting with Israeli officials, said Former Kuwaiti parliamentarian Walid al-Tabatabai

Muhammad al-Jawadi, an Egyptian writer similarly said that Israel will remain the same even if all Arabs visit there.

Calling the visit an unusual event, Abdel Bari Atwan, the editor-in-chief of Rai al-Youm also stated that I wondered why Anwar Eshki was interested in travelling to Israel and meeting with the regime officials.

Denouncing the retired general visit of Israel, Mohammed Al-Barrak, a member of the kingdom's Muslim Scholars Association also said Israelis have ruled Palestine and every Muslim is responsible to consider the ruling illegal and tries to end the occupation.

Retired General Anwar Eshki, who has held several senior positions in the Saudi government and its military, travelled to Israel with a delegation of academics and business people and met Foreign Ministry Director-General, Dore Gold, and Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, Major-General Yoav Mordechai.

It is worth mentioning that Saudi Arabia and Israel have both been hatching plots to derail the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) reached between Iran and the six world powers. They have also been cooperating to support terrorist groups in Syria, Iraq and Yemen in recent years.