Despite persistent worldwide overtures, Saudi Arabia will stay steadfast in its stance towards normalizing ties with Israel till a two-state resolution is reached with the Palestinians, the dominion’s high diplomat declared Friday, as conveyed in a tweet by the Foreign Ministry.
The feedback by Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos got here as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mentioned normalization with Saudi Arabia in talks with White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan in Jerusalem on Thursday.
“True normalization and true stability will only come through … giving the Palestinians a state,” Prince Faisal instructed Bloomberg on the summit.
Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil exporter, is a detailed associate of the United States however it has repeatedly refused to normalize ties with U.S.-ally Israel because of its occupation of Palestinian territories.
The U.S.-brokered Abraham Accords in 2020 noticed the dominion’s neighbors – the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain – set up full diplomatic ties with Israel.
Netanyahu has repeatedly expressed his need to see Saudi Arabia be part of the checklist.
In their talks on Thursday, Netanyahu and Sullivan mentioned “measures to deepen the Abraham Accords … with an emphasis on a breakthrough with Saudi,” the Israeli chief’s workplace mentioned.
The West Bank and the Gaza Strip plus Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem had been lengthy touted as the idea of a Palestinian state in a “two-state” resolution to the long-running battle.
But that objective has turn out to be ever extra distant, with the occupied West Bank fragmented by Jewish settlements.
Netanyahu plans to pursue a coverage of elevated settlement enlargement within the West Bank, with ultra-Orthodox Jewish events in his coalition advocating the annexation of a number of the territory.
