Netanyahu dangles peace with Saudis as key to resolving conflict with Palestinians

Prime minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu says he intends to pursue peace with Saudi Arabia and posits that it could be the key to resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Speaking to the Al Arabiya channel in an extensive interview, Netanyahu urges Saudi Arabia to join the Abraham Accords.

“I think we face a possibility of not merely an expansion of the peace, I think we can have a new peace initiative that will form a quantum leap for the achievement of the resolution for both the Arab-Israeli conflict and ultimately the Palestinian-Israeli conflict,” he says.

“And of course, I’m referring to what could be a truly remarkable historic peace with Saudi Arabia,” he says.

“I think peace with Saudi Arabia will serve two purposes. It will be a quantum leap for overall peace between Israel and the Arab world. It will change our region in ways that are unimaginable and I think it will facilitate ultimately Israeli-Palestinian peace,” Netanyahu says.

“I believe in that and I intend to pursue it. Of course, it’s up to the leadership of Saudi Arabia if they want to partake in this effort.”

Saud Arabia proposed a peace plan two decades ago under which Israel would resolves its conflict with the Palestinians and withdraw to the 1967 borders in exchange for full peace with the Arab World.

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