Netanyahu believes that normalizing relations with Saudi Arabia would mean a “quantum leap” of “historic” scope

June 9 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, has indicated this Friday that a possible normalization of relations with Saudi Arabia would mean a “quantum leap” of a “historical” nature for international political relations, in response to the consideration in this regard made the day before by Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan.

“Saudi Arabia is the most influential Arab country in the world, not only in the Arab world but also, I believe, in the Muslim world,” said the prime minister, for whom full relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia would open up a real possibility not just to end the Arab-Israeli conflict. “I think it could help us end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” he added in comments to Britain’s Sky News.

However, the Saudi Foreign Minister, in his appearance on Thursday in the framework of the visit of the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, already pointed out that precisely the historic conflict between Israelis and Palestinians could imply a limitation in the face of new rapprochements between Riyadh, staunch supporter of the constitution of the Palestinian state, and Tel Aviv.

“We have to find a path to peace through a two-state solution. Without peace for the Palestinian people, without addressing that challenge, any normalization of relations with Israel will have limited benefits,” Bin Farhan commented before adding. that the United States, a great ally of Israel, “shares a similar position on the matter.”