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Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman

Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman

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Standing at the podium of the United Nations General Assembly in New York in September, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented his vision of a rosy future for the region once Israel and Saudi Arabia complete a normalization agreement.

To create a new Middle East, he said, “we must continue the path we paved with the Abraham Accords four years ago. Above all, this means achieving a historic peace agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia.”

He called a potential deal “a true pivot of history,” one that “would usher in a historic reconciliation between the Arab world and Israel, between Islam and Judaism, between Mecca and Jerusalem.”

Read the rest of this article at the Times of Israel.

Lazar Berman is the diplomatic correspondent at the Times of Israel, where he also covers Christian Affairs. He holds an M.A. in Security Studies from Georgetown University and taught at Salahuddin University in Iraqi Kurdistan. Berman is a reserve captain in the IDF’s Commando Brigade and served in a Bedouin unit during his active service.
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