{"id":50272,"date":"2022-01-27T15:28:38","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T09:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/is-prince-mohammad-bin-salman-led-saudi-arabian-government-ready-to-embrace-israel\/"},"modified":"2022-01-27T15:28:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T09:58:38","slug":"is-prince-mohammad-bin-salman-led-saudi-arabian-government-ready-to-embrace-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=50272","title":{"rendered":"Is Prince Mohammad bin Salman-led Saudi Arabian government ready to embrace Israel?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>JERUSALEM:<\/em><\/strong> After the United Arab Emirates, Israel is warming up to Saudi Arabia and Indonesia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said they are looking to \u201cexpand the Abraham Accords to additional countries\u201d beyond the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re asking me what the important countries that we\u2019re looking at are, Indonesia is one of them, Saudi Arabia of course, but these things take time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saudi Arabia, home to Islam\u2019s holiest two sites, and Indonesia, which has the world\u2019s largest Muslim population, have conditioned any eventual normalization with Israel on the addressing of the Palestinians\u2019 quest for statehood on territory captured by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lapid added that \u201csmaller countries\u201d he did not identify could normalize relations with Israel in the coming two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Israel\u2019s President Isaac Herzog said he would visit the United Arab Emirates, the first country to normalize ties with Israel as part of the Abraham Accords, on Jan 30-31, and meet with its leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the absence of official ties, Saudi Arabia agreed in 2020 to allow Israel-UAE flights to cross its territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett\u2019s El Al Israel Airlines plane flew through Saudi airspace when he visited Abu Dhabi last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A covert visit to Saudi Arabia in November 2020 by then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu was confirmed by Israeli officials but publicly denied by Riyadh. Both Israel and Saudi Arabia share concerns over their common enemy, Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both Saudi Arabia and Indonesia condemned Israel\u2019s airstrikes in Gaza during 11 days of hostilities with Palestinians in May 2021. More than 250 Palestinians were killed in Gaza. Rockets fired by Hamas and other groups killed 13 people in Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM: After the United Arab Emirates, Israel is warming up to Saudi Arabia and Indonesia Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said they are looking to \u201cexpand the Abraham Accords to additional countries\u201d beyond the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco. \u201cIf you\u2019re asking me what the important countries that we\u2019re looking at are, Indonesia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50271,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}