Russia has been working closely with a number of Arab countries in recent months. Rostec, the state-owned military industrial giant, announced its plans to produce a commercial plane, potentially in the UAE, during the Dubai air show on Sunday. 

The industrial giant said it had discussed the potential collaboration with Abu Dhabi crown prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan. 

"They [the UAE] want to create a large transport aircraft together with us, as well as a passenger jet on the basis of the MC-21 400. They have many wishes," said Sergey Chemezov, Rostec CEO, according to RT.

A Rostec spokesperson added it was too early to detail what a "joint production" would entail. 

It could be the "assembly of completed MC-21 jetliners in the UAE to manufacturing components for jets that will be produced in Russia," according to a Bloomberg report.

Russia aims to increase exports of its new single-aisle airliner, the Irkut MC-21, as reported by Bloomberg. 

Chemezov emphasized that the Middle East market is of "extreme importance" to the Russian state corporation, Arabian Business reported. 

In an interview with Arabian Business, Chemezov said that the company's development strategy goes well beyond just the manufacturing. They plan to offer countries in the region its IT-solutions.

"In particular, we offer services of digitization and unification of control processes in the defense and civil spheres for the partner countries intelligences' services," he said.

In September, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced a finalized agreement with Russia to build a nuclear power plant in Dabaa, about 130 kilometers northwest of Cairo along the Mediterranean coast. 

Negotiations for the project have been ongoing for two years. 

In 2016, Russia revealed that it would lend Egypt $25 billion to build the nuclear power plant, Reuters reported. The two countries first agreed to start the project in 2015. 

"I now appreciate that Arabs and Jews were all a Semitic people originally and it is the influx of foreign, European Jews (especially from Poland, they say) which has helped to cause the great problems [in the Middle East]."

Prince Charles, the heir apparent to the British thrown, penned these words back in 1986, a letter released and reported by the Daily Mail this past weekend has revealed.

"I know there are so many complex issues, but how can there ever be an end to terrorism unless the causes are eliminated?" the prince continued in the letter, which was written to his close friend Laurens van der Post.

Going further, Prince Charles referenced the powerful Zionist lobbies in Washington D.C., citing their immense influence on Western foreign policy.

"Surely some U.S. president has to have the courage to stand up and take on the Jewish lobby in the US?" he wrote.

By "Jewish lobby," Prince Charles would have been referring to powerful Zionist lobbying groups such as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Considered one of the most powerful lobbying organizations in the U.S., politicians have seen their careers rise and fall depending on their level of support for the group's positions.

Despite the fact that Prince Charles has widely been seen as a strong supporter of the British Jewish community in the past and wasn't stating views against Jews generally, the old letter has sparked significant controversy.

British Foreign Minister Arthur James Balfour issued the infamous declaration 100 years ago, leading to the inevitable displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian inhabitants, many whose descendants are refugees today. Decades of unrest and conflict in the region have followed the decision.

Unwavering support from the U.S. and other Western allies for Israel have allowed the continued and systematic destruction of Palestinian culture and heritage.

As Charles points out in his letter, many Arab's simply see Israel "as a U.S. colony," invading the region.

A spokesperson for the royal family responded to the letter's publication, saying while the prince did pen the words, they "clearly" represented the views of others.

"The letter clearly states that these were not the Prince’s own views about Arab-Israeli issues but represented the opinions of some of those he met during his visit which he was keen to interrogate," the spokesperson said, according to The Independent.

“He was sharing the arguments in private correspondence with a longstanding friend in an attempt to improve his understanding of what he has always recognized is a deeply complex issue to which he was coming early on in his own analysis in 1986."