{"id":6715,"date":"2023-09-22T15:36:05","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T15:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/israel-on-cusp-of-region-reshaping-peace-with-saudi-arabia-netanyahu-says\/"},"modified":"2023-09-22T15:36:05","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T15:36:05","slug":"israel-on-cusp-of-region-reshaping-peace-with-saudi-arabia-netanyahu-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/israel-on-cusp-of-region-reshaping-peace-with-saudi-arabia-netanyahu-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel on cusp of region-reshaping peace with Saudi Arabia, Netanyahu says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday he believed his country was on the cusp of peace with Saudi Arabia, predicting it could be clinched by US President Joe Biden and reshape the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, amid urging by Riyadh and Washington that the Palestinians be included in the diplomacy, Netanyahu told the United Nations General Assembly in New York that Palestinians should not be allowed to veto the regional dealmaking.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1696911\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Expectations that Israel might normalise relations with Saudi Arabia, the home of Islam\u2019s two holiest shrines, have been ratcheted up this week. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said a deal was getting closer by the day and Netanyahu and Biden held a long-awaited meeting to discuss the prospects.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu described as a precursor the 2020 normalisation accords between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1663330\">Abraham Accords<\/a> and sponsored by then-US President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no question: The Abraham Accords heralded the dawn of a new age of peace,\u201d he said. \u201cI believe we\u2019re on the cusp of a more dramatic breakthrough: A historic peace between Israel and Saudi Arabia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Such a deal would likely require broad support among US lawmakers \u2014 a tall order with a presidential election in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>While crediting Trump for the previous deal, Netanyahu made clear he hoped the current administration would clinch this one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe we can achieve peace with Saudi Arabia with the leadership of President Biden,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Though he voiced willingness to seek some accommodation with the Palestinians \u2014 whose statehood goals are ruled out by his hard-right government \u2014 Netanyahu said: \u201cWe must not give the Palestinians a veto over new peace treaties with Arab states.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told the same forum: \u201cWhoever thinks peace in the Middle East is possible before our people achieved their full right is delusional.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1777217\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Netanyahu, who has often used the UN podium to warn against Iran, described his country\u2019s arch-foe as the \u201cfly in the ointment\u201d that would try to wreck a deal with Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>But he cast normalisation as already in the works, citing the now three-year-old air corridor for Israeli carriers over Saudi territory and an ambitious plan, announced by Biden this month, to make both countries part of a rail and shipping network that would run from India to the Mediterranean Sea.<\/p>\n<p>He illustrated the latter with a red line he drew across a regional map \u2014 a play on a 2012 UN speech in which he used a marker to draw a proposed \u201cred line\u201d for Iran\u2019s nuclear drive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday I bring this marker to show a great blessing,\u201d he said, deeming normalisation with Saudi Arabia \u201can extraordinary change, a monumental change, another pivot of history.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday he believed his country was on the cusp of peace with Saudi Arabia, predicting it could be clinched by US President Joe Biden and reshape the Middle East. Yet, amid urging by Riyadh and Washington that the Palestinians be included in the diplomacy, Netanyahu told the United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2023\/09\/221956050402ee8.jpg?r=200405","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}