Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mentioned his nation is on the “cusp” of reviving diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia, as he addressed the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Friday.
Netanyahu mentioned agreements in 2020 to ascertain formal ties with three different Arab states had already “heralded the dawn of a new age of peace.”
“But I believe that we are at the cusp of an even more dramatic breakthrough — an historic peace between Israel and Saudi Arabia.”
“Such a peace will go a long way to ending the Arab-Israeli conflict. It will encourage other Arab states to normalize their relations with Israel,” he mentioned.
Netanyahu firmly rejected Palestinian chief Mahmoud Abbas’s phrases in his personal U.N. speech on Thursday, that there could possibly be no peace within the Middle East with no Palestinian state.
U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration has been main talks between Israel and Saudi Arabia, whose crown prince and de facto ruler, Mohammed bin Salman, just lately mentioned that the 2 sides had been getting nearer.
Israel in 2020 established relations with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco, its first normalization with the Arab world in many years after making peace with neighboring Egypt and Jordan.
He made a veiled risk of nuclear assault if Iran pursued its personal atomic bomb.
“Above all — above all — Iran must face a credible nuclear threat. As long as I’m prime minister of Israel, I will do everything in my power to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons,” Netanyahu mentioned.
Israel has a extensively recognized however undeclared nuclear program.
Tehran denies searching for a nuclear bomb however has breached limits on uranium enrichment set in a U.S.-brokered 2015 deal following former president Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the settlement and reimposition of sweeping sanctions.
Source: www.dailysabah.com