Netanyahu: Peace with Saudi Arabia is going to happen; probe of Oct. 7 ‘will surprise a lot of people’

In response to questions at his joint press conference with US President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Netanyahu says he believes that “peace between Israel and Saudi Arabia is not only feasible; it’s going to happen.”

If Trump had had another half-year of his first term, it would already have happened, says the prime minister.

“I’m committed to achieving it. And I know the president is committed to achieving it. And I think the Saudi leadership is interested in achieving it.”

“We’ll give it a good shot,” he says, “and I think we’ll succeed.”

Netanyahu promises to investigate what went wrong surrounding Hamas’s October 7, 2023, onslaught “at the appropriate time.”

He says that the appropriate body to investigate is “an independent commission that will be accepted by the majority of the people” — refusing, as always to date, to endorse a state commission of inquiry.

Israel “needs to find out exactly what happened,” he says. “I’m insisting on it.” And the findings, he says, “will surprise a lot of people.”