MANAMA, Bahrain—Saudi and Israeli dignitaries traded blunt remarks over longstanding points that divide them Sunday all thru a regional security forum held in opposition to the backdrop of U.S.-brokered normalization affords between the Jewish tell and Gulf Arab neighbors.
The commerce came two weeks after Israeli High Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secretly met Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to glimpse assurances that a normalization deal between the longtime competitors used to be in attain. Saudi Arabia has denied the meeting took blueprint, nonetheless Israel hasn’t. The Wall Street Journal reported that Prince Mohammed pulled encourage from a deal all thru the hit upon, largely as a result of U.S. election consequence.
In a fiery tackle on the Manama Dialogue in Bahrain, frail Saudi intelligence chief Prince Turki al-Faisal condemned Israel because the final Western colonizer of the Heart East. He disparaged its claims of upholding human rights and enumerated decades of crimes committed in opposition to the Palestinians.
“They’re demolishing properties as they need and they also damage whomever they need, and yet the Israeli Knesset handed a law that defines the citizenship of Israel as completely Jewish, denying the non-Jewish inhabitants of Israel of equal rights below the law,” Prince Turki stated. “What extra or less democracy is that?”
He prefaced his remarks by asserting they represented his non-public observe, nonetheless as a senior prince who advises the Saudi king, his comments are closely monitored as a policy bellwether. Following criticism of Palestinian leaders by one more senior Saudi royal in October, Prince Turki’s comments veil the divergent views on the head echelons of the secretive kingdom toward warming household with Israel.
