Israel and Saudi Arabia are “close” to a “historic peace,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed from the UN podium on Friday, September 22nd, and judged that the Palestinians had no “veto right” in the Israeli-Arab agreement Relationships.
He recalled the normalization of relations with three Arab countries in 2020, which he called “the dawn of a new era,” and estimated that “we are on the verge of an even more spectacular breakthrough, a historic peace between Israel and Saudi Arabia.” .
The Saudi Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman, nicknamed MBS, also assured in a recent interview with the American television channel Fox News that the Sunni monarchy and the Hebrew state were “coming closer every day” to normalizing their relations.
“Such a peace would go a long way toward ending the Arab-Israeli conflict, it would encourage other Arab countries to normalize their relations with Israel, it would increase the possibilities of peace with the Palestinians,” Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday.
But “I believe we should not give the Palestinians a veto over new peace treaties with Arab states,” he stressed. “The Palestinians could benefit greatly from greater peace. You have to participate in this process.”
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas warned on the same platform on Thursday that there would be no peace in the Middle East without taking into account the “legitimate rights” of his people, i.e. the implementation of a two-state solution.
The Israeli prime minister also attacked his pet peeve, the Iranian regime.
“Iran must face, above all, a nuclear threat. As long as I am Prime Minister of Israel, I will do everything in my power to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons,” he said.
With AFP