A few days ago, on the sidelines of an international summit in Rome, Libyan Foreign Minister Najia Mangoush met for two hours with her Israeli counterpart, Foreign Minister Eli Cohen, to discuss improving ties between the two countries.
Cohen suggested areas where Israel could be of most help to Libya, in agriculture, water management, solar energy, and high tech.
The talks had been arranged weeks in advance by Libyan and Israeli officials “at the highest level.”
Mangoush is young, female, and a recent appointee, and would never have dared, without explicit authorization from higher-ups, to meet with Cohen.
When the Israelis made public the news of their meeting, the Arab street in Tripoli went wild with fury.
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To save its own skin, the Libyan government of Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Al-Dbeibeh insisted that Mangoush’s meeting with Cohen was unauthorized, and sacked her from her job.
Now she has had to flee Libya in fear for her life; she is currently in Turkey.
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