Israel and Saudi Arabia are close to “a historic peace,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the United Nations, arguing that the Palestinians do not have veto power over Arab countries in relations with Tel Aviv.
Recalling the normalization of relations with three Arab countries in 2020, which he described as “the beginning of a new era,” he estimated that we are close to “an even more spectacular advance, a historic peace between Israel and Saudi Arabia.”
The Saudi Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, also recently assured, in an interview with North American television Fow News, that the Sunni monarchy and the Jewish State were “closer every day” to normalizing their relations.
“This peace would go a long way toward ending the Arab-Israeli conflict, encourage other Arab countries to normalize their relations with Israel, and increase the chances of peace with the Palestinians,” Benjamin Netanyahu said.
“I think we should not give the Palestinians the power to veto new peace treaties with Arab states,” he insisted. “The Palestinians could benefit greatly from a broader peace. They must participate in this process,” said the Israeli prime minister.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas warned Thursday that there will be no peace in the Near and Middle East without taking into account the “legitimate rights” of his people, that is, the implementation of a two-state solution.
Israeli settler violence has displaced more than 1,100 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since 2022, according to a UN report released Thursday, with authorities describing an exodus without recent parallel.
The report reported three settler-related incidents per day in the West Bank, the highest daily average since the United Nations began documenting the trend in 2006.
The violence completely emptied five Palestinian communities, reduced the population of six others by half and seven localities by a quarter, according to the report.
As Israeli settlements expand under the ultranationalist-backed government of Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinians say violence by radical Israeli settlers has skyrocketed.
Source: TSF
