Video Of The Week - Netanyahu with Pompeo in Saudi Arabia - https://tinyurl.com/yx8fmq7a
From JP 23-11-2020 by Iahav Harkov
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Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) and US
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Neom, Saudi Arabia, on Sunday, Israeli
sources have confirmed.
Netanyahu, along
with Mossad chief Yossi Cohen, National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat and
Netanyahu’s Military Secretary Avi Bluth, used a private plane belonging to
businessman Udi Angel, which the prime minister has used for past diplomatic
trips. The plane left Israel at 5 p.m. on Sunday and returned after midnight.
The Israeli and
Saudi sides discussed Iran and normalization, The Wall Street Journal reported,
citing a senior Saudi adviser.
Netanyahu said in a
Likud faction meeting that “for years, [he] never commented on these matters
and will not start now. For years, I have spared no effort in strengthening
Israel and expanding the circle of peace.”
Still, Education
Minister Yoav Gallant confirmed that the meeting in Saudi Arabia took place,
calling it an “amazing achievement” and “a matter of great importance” in an
interview with Army Radio.
Saudi Foreign
Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan denied that the crown prince met with Israeli
officials during the meeting with Pompeo, saying, “the only officials present
were American and Saudi.” However, he did not deny that any meeting between MBS
and Netanyahu took place.
Farhan’s denial is
likely a reflection of Saudi King Salman’s continued reticence to make his
country’s warming ties with Israel official.
US President Donald
Trump mentioned the possibility that Saudi Arabia would join the Abraham
Accords Israel signed with other Gulf states in recent months, but reports came
out immediately afterward of a generational divide, with the 84-year-old king
remaining loyal to the traditional Saudi position – that peace with a
Palestinian state must come before normalization with Israel – while the
35-year-old crown prince supports open ties with the Jewish state.
The trip was kept
tightly under wraps in Israel as it was being planned for more than a month,
and neither Defense Minister Benny Gantz nor Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi
were informed before it took place. IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi was also
uninformed, though Netanyahu’s military secretary did participate in the
meeting.
On Sunday, however,
Prince Faisal told Reuters that normalization with Israel would only come after
“a permanent and comprehensive peace agreement between the Palestinians and the
Israelis including the establishment of a Palestinian state on 1967 borders.”
The minister said
his country has “supported normalization with Israel for a long time,” pointing
out that they authored the Saudi Peace Initiative that would have the Arab
world establish ties with Israel in exchange for their vision of a two-state
solution.
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