Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was confirmed to have flown to Saudi Arabia and met Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) last weekend. The meeting will be the first widely confirmed visit to Saudi by an Israeli leader.
Quoted from Reuters On Tuesday (11/24/2020) that launched the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, flight tracking data showed that a business jet had made a short trip from Tel Aviv to Neom. It is a new futuristic city on the coast of Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea that was specially initiated by MBS.
The meeting was also attended by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. He is very active in lobbying several Muslim countries in the Middle East region to normalize their relations with Israel, after the Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain and Sudan opened diplomatic doors with the Jewish state.
Launch The Wall Street Journal citing one of Saudi Arabia’s senior advisers, the leaders met for hours and discussed several issues including normalization of relations and Iran. However, no substantial agreement has been reached.
Pompeo tweeted when he visited Neom. But did not mention the presence of Israel.
Even so, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia, Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud denied this. According to him, there was no Israel on Pompeo’s visit.
“I have seen press reports about the claimed meeting between His Majesty the Crown Prince and Israeli officials during a recent visit by @SecPompeo. No such meeting took place. The only officials present were Americans and Saudis,” he wrote on the website. Twitter.
The same thing was also expressed by Netanyahu in his country. “Are you serious? My friends, in all these years I have never commented on such things and I do not intend to start doing it now,” he said.
But another code was revealed by Yoav Gallant, a member of Netanyahu’s security cabinet. He told another fact to the Army Radio.
“The fact that the meeting took place, and was announced to the public, even if it is declared semi-official now, is still a very serious matter,” he said.
Even Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz, in his speech, condemned “the irresponsible leak of secret flights to Saudi Arabia”.
Since August, Riyadh has allowed Israeli airlines to cross Saudi territory to destinations in the Gulf countries and Asia. The Palestinian militant group condemned the news about Saudi Arabia’s soft treatment of their enemy, Israel.
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad Front calls it a “betrayal of blessed Jerusalem, Mecca and Medina”.
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