The region’s peak political body, the Pacific Islands Forum, has welcomed Israel as its newest foreign partner.<\/p>\n
Israel has been added to the Forum as a sectoral partner. It says it’ll work with Pacific countries on water management, desalination, agriculture and climate change adaptation.<\/p>\n
The Forum has 21 dialogue partners and 1 development partner in Taiwan, Israel’s inclusion adds to a table of partners for the Forum to collaborate with.<\/p>\n
But the new partnership is dividing opinion, and some Pacific civil society groups are raising concerns about how transparent the decision was.<\/p>\n
Coordinator for The Pacific Network on Globalisation Joey Tau says these groups are asking for clarity on the decision as well as acknowledgement of their reservations towards the partnership.<\/p>\n
“How do we inform regionalism moving forward when we have stakeholders at the same table who are the root causes of some of these issues?” He said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The region’s peak political body, the Pacific Islands Forum, has welcomed Israel as its newest foreign partner. Israel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,297264,43,297262,297263,4296],"class_list":["post-660445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-joey-tau","tag-news","tag-pacific-islands-forum","tag-pacific-network-on-globalisation","tag-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}