Netanyahu Urges Biden to Mend Relations With Saudi Arabia
“The alliance between America’s allies and with America is the anchor of stability in our region,” said the prime minister-designate.
Israel using its influence to strengthen American relations with Arab states in the Middle East. That’s one of the benefits regional monarchies with questionable human rights records had hoped to gain from the Abraham Accords. And Israel stepping up to the plate in this regard could explain their more muted engagement with the Palestinian cause of late.
This week Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu openly urged the Biden administration to mend its troubled ties with Saudi Arabia and its de facto ruler, Mohammed bin Salman.
“One of my main goals [as Israel’s next leader] will be to speak with my friend of 40 years, President Biden, and tell him that I think that there is a need for a reaffirmation of America’s commitment to its traditional allies in the Middle East,” Netanyahu told Dubai-based Al Arabiya English on Thursday.
“I think that the alliance, the traditional alliance with Saudi Arabia and other countries, has to be reaffirmed. There should not be periodic swings, or even wild swings in this relationship, because I think that the alliance between America’s allies and with America is the anchor of stability in our region,” he explained. “I think it requires periodic reaffirmation and I’m [going] to speak to President Biden about it.”
Hinting at the Abraham Accords, which made the interview itself possible, Netanyahu stressed that solving the Israeli-Arab conflict means working together with Saudi Arabia and other regional powers.
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