“We have the interest and bandwidth to promote normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia, and in fact, it’s this administration that has produced the first tangible step of these two countries coming close together with the opening of the airspace over Saudi Arabia for civilian flights from Israel,” Sullivan said. Israel officials said they were encouraged by remarks Sullivan made on May 4 at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy think tank. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan held with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman the previous night.īrett McGurk, National Security Council coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa and Amos Hochstein, special presidential coordinator for global infrastructure and energy security, who participated in the talks in Saudi Arabia, will arrive in Jerusalem to meet with Netanyahu, Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer and head of the National Security Council Tzachi Hanegbi. Senior White House officials flew from Saudi Arabia to Israel on Monday to brief Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the talks that U.S.
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