Saudi Scholar: Israeli Society Wants Peace
The supposedly flourishing ties between Israel and the Sunni Arab states burst into the open last week when a prominent former official from Saudi Arabia, a theocratic Islamic monarchy that doesn’t recognize Israel, sat down with a top Israeli diplomat and the official in charge of overseeing the country’s military presence in the West Bank.
On July 22, retired Saudi General Anwar Eshki—who heads an influential Saudi think tank and is believed to be close with both Saudi Arabia’s King Salman and his son, defense minister Mohammed bin-Salman—led a delegation of academics and businessmen to the Jewish state, where they met with Foreign Ministry Director General Dore Gold and IDF General Yoav Moredechai, the Coordinator of Government Activities for the Territories.
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