ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent a fresh warning to Saudi Arabia after the kingdom ended its 7-year rift with Tehran.
“Those who partner with Iran partner with misery,” said Benjamin Netanyahu, PM Israeli.
These are the words of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu more than a month after Saudi Arabia restored ties with Iran in an initiative sponsored by China.
To support his statement, Netanyahu cited Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, and Iraq, as examples of countries with failed states status due to their partnership with Iran.
The Israeli Prime Minister added that,
“95% of the problems in the Middle East emanate from iran.”
Netanyahu sees the restoration of ties between Saudi Arabia and Iran as more likely to do with the desire to de-escalate, or even eliminate the long-standing conflict in Yemen.
Meanwhile, the Israeli Prime Minister reiterated his hopes to enter a peace deal with Saudi Arabia which he described as a giant leap toward ending the Arab-Israeli conflict.
“We want normalization and peace with Saudi Arabia. We view that as perhaps a giant leap towards ending the Arab-Israeli conflict,” he added.
Iran and Israel enjoyed good relations for about 30 years, however, the proxy conflict that started in the 1980s and the capacity of Iran to build nuclear weapons threatened the Jewish State, which later turned them from allies to archenemies.
The restoration of ties between Saudi Arabia and Iran affected Israel’s diplomatic crusade to pursue the isolation of Tehran and delayed its attempts to normalize relations with Riyadh, one of the wealthiest and most influential countries and a staunch supporter of the Palestinian cause.
