A senior US official told CNN Wednesday that the two leaders discussed normalization efforts “in some depth.” US President Joe Biden and Netanyahu on Wednesday met for the first time since the prime minister returned to office last December. MBS said that if a deal is reached with Israel, his country is willing to work with whoever is in power, including Netanyahu. The government, which includes some far-right ministers and settlers, has called for extending Israel’s sovereignty in the occupied West Bank, which the Palestinians want for a future state. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made normalization with the kingdom a priority for his government, but it is unclear how his right-wing coalition will react to any demands from Saudi Arabia for concessions to the Palestinians. Saudi Arabia looks for security assurances from US as condition for normalizing ties with Israel US President Joe Biden (L) and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (R) arrive for the family photo during the Jeddah Security and Development Summit at a hotel in Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coastal city of Jeddah on July 16, 2022. We need to solve that part,” MBS said, adding that he wants to see Israel as a “player in the Middle East.” “For us, the Palestinian issue is very important. The kingdom proposed an “ Arab Peace initiative” in 2002, which offered Israel security and “normal relations” with 57 Arab and Muslim countries in exchange for its withdrawal from occupied Palestinian territories and the creation of an independent Palestinian state. Most Arab and Islamic states don’t recognize Israel. MBS said a pact with Israel would be “the biggest historical deal since the Cold War.”Īsked about the kingdom’s demands for normalization, MBS said he hopes the deal will “reach a place that will ease the life of the Palestinians,” stopping short calling for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, which has been Riyadh’s official stance for two decades. A deal would represent a significant foreign policy victory for the president and has the potential to enhance Israel’s acceptance in the Muslim world, particularly considering Saudi Arabia’s role as the custodian of Islam’s holiest sites. The Biden administration has for several months been in talks with Saudi Arabia on the matter, according to US officials. “It seems it’s for the first time a real one, serious. “Every day we get closer” to reaching an agreement, the 38-year-old heir to the Saudi throne told Fox News in an interview that aired Wednesday. Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) said that his country was moving “closer” each day toward reaching a normalization deal with Israel, the first time he has publicly acknowledged the process.

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