Posted on 11/23/2020 7:13:15 AM PST by SeekAndFind
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli media reported Monday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew to Saudi Arabia for a clandestine meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, which would mark the first known encounter between senior Israeli and Saudi officials.
The reported meeting was the latest move by the Trump Administration to promote normalized ties between Israel and the broader Arab world and reflected the shared concern of all three nations about Iran.
The Israeli news site Walla, followed quickly by other Hebrew-language media, cited an unnamed Israeli official as saying that Netanyahu and Yossi Cohen, head of Israel’s Mossad spy agency, flew to the Saudi city of Neom on Sunday, where they met with the crown prince. The prince was there for talks with visiting U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
People traveling with Pompeo declined comment. Netanyahu, in a meeting with his Likud Party, also declined to explicitly confirm the visit.
“I have not addressed such things for years and I will not start with that now. For years I have spared no effort to strengthen Israel and expand the circle of peace,” he said.
The Saudi foreign minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan, denied on Twitter that the meeting took place.
“No such meeting occurred. The only officials present were American and Saudi,” he wrote. He did not elaborate.
The flight-tracking website FlightRadar24.com showed a Gulfstream IV private jet took off from Tel Aviv on Sunday night and flew south along the edge of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula before turning toward Neom and landing. The flight took off from Neom over three hours later and followed the same route back to Tel Aviv.
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They better hurry just in case this fiasco goes belly up here in the US.
RE: They better hurry just in case this fiasco goes belly up here in the US.
Netanyahu already accepts the fiasco. He was one of the earliest to Congratulate Joe Biden even as Russia and Mexico are holding their horses.
Yeah, I saw that when he did it. Obviously doesn’t know, like apparently most Americans, that there is a process that needs to be adhered to. Especially this time.
MBS is regime change target #1 of any Obama third term.
If SA signs a peace treaty with Israel President Trump will go down in history as one of the most successful Presidents in history.
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Biden lets Iran have nukes.
Saudi needs a nuclear umbrella, even if courtesy of Jews.
How things have changed. In 1986 I was with the MFO in the Sinai and had to go home on emergency leave when my step brother was killed in a car accident. I was given a blank page out of a Official (Red) US Passport and told to hold the page in place and get the blank page stamped when I left and returned to Israel. Israeli Customs were used to this with American Military in my situation. If my Official Passport had an Israeli stamp I could not re-enter Egypt.
I just flew in from Israel, and boy are my arms tired!................
I also heard you can get an US to Israel only passport for people who travel to Muslim countries.
“ If SA signs a peace treaty with Israel President Trump will go down in history as one of the most successful Presidents in history.”
No, he won’t. Trump’s presidency will be whitewashed, down the memory hole. Trump will be the subject of the “2 minute hate.”
And it’s Obuma they gave the Nobel Peace Prize to...
The Dems are all Talk. They and their MSM lackeys will downplay this meeting. “Saudi Prince who had an Israel hating Saudi Crown hating dissident eliminated...”
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