Former Saudi general makes rare Jerusalem visit, meets Israeli officials

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File photo: Dore Gold and Anwar Majed Eshki
File photo: Dore Gold (L) and Anwar Majed Esaki. They reportedly met in Washington in June last year at the Council for Foreign Relations, a Washington think tank.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry says a senior official has met with a visiting former military general from Saudi Arabia. The meeting marks a rare public engagement between countries that have no official relations.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon says Sunday that Director General Dore Gold met with Anwar Eshki at a Jerusalem hotel. Eshki currently heads a Saudi think tank in Jeddah but is believed to have close ties with the kingdom’s rulers. Official government permission was likely necessary for him to make such an overt visit.

Saudi Arabia has floated a plan for a comprehensive peace agreement between Israel and its Arab neighbors. It has unofficially grown closer to Israel in recent years over their shared concerns regarding Iran.

The Associated Press

 

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According to a report by Israeli Haaretz newspaper    ,  Eshki was accompanied by a delegation of Saudi business people and academics.

During the visit they reportedly met with members of the Knesset to discuss advancing the prospects of the Arab peace initiative, said Haaretz. Additionally, Eshki travelled to Ramallah to meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

Friday’s meeting, arranged by left-wing Meretz MK Esawi Freige, was held at Jerusalem’s King David hotel. It was attended by Zionist Union MKs Omer Bar-Lev and Ksenia Svetlova as well as another Meretz MK Michal Rozin, said Haaretz.

Freige, Rozin and Svetlova told Haaretz following the meeting that the Saudi delegation desired to advance discourse on the Arab peace initiative.

“The Saudis want to open up to Israel,” Freige told Haaretz. “This is a strategic step for them. They said they want to continue what former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat started. They want to get closer to Israel. This is clearly evident.”

The peace proposal put forward by the late King Abdullah, known as the Arab Peace Initiative, offered Israel blanket recognition from 22 Arab states in return for an independent state for the Palestinians.

The Arab League proposal — based on a Saudi peace proposal — also stated that East Jerusalem should be the capital of a future Palestinian state.

The Saudi delegation also reportedly met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and other senior officials in Ramallah according to Haaretz

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26 responses to “Former Saudi general makes rare Jerusalem visit, meets Israeli officials”

  1. Oh Yeah Avatar

    “The Saudis want to open up to Israel,” Freige told Haaretz. “This is a strategic step for them. They said they want to continue what former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat started. They want to get closer to Israel. This is clearly evident.”

    If this is the unchallengeable reality, then perhaps things will change on the Middle Eastern arena as it once started with the peace proposal put forward by the late King Abdullah, known as the Arab Peace Initiative, offered Israel blanket recognition from 22 Arab states in return for an independent state for the Palestinians.

    The Arab League proposal – based on a Saudi peace proposal – also stated that East Jerusalem should be the capital of a future Palestinian state.
    Benjamin Netanyahu is the main obstacle for such proposal.

    Since Eshki was accompanied by a delegation of Saudi businesspeople and academics, one should assume that the Saudis mean real business with changing the the direction of the current political alignment.

    Interesting is the fact that during the visit they reportedly met with members of the Knesset to discuss advancing the prospects of the Arab peace initiative, according to Haaretz.
    As a further supplement, Eshki travelled to Ramallah to meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

    According to Haaretz The Saudi delegation also reportedly met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and other senior officials in Ramallah.

    Now it will be interesting to know what the Palestinians make of it.

    Will it result in a ISRAELI PALESTINIAN CONFEDERATION, or will it be a two-states solution – Anyway, it is not likely to be completed during my lifecycle judging from my limited knowledge of these nations.

    1. There will never be an Israeli-Palestinian confederation. Certainly not before there’s a German-Turkish one. 🙂
      Although the Saudi masses remain as backward and anti-Semitic as ever, this (very partial) opening of the Saudi Westernized elites to Israel is certainly a (small) positive sign.

      1. You don’t want Peace you filthy scum?

        1. If “peace” means tolerating you, I prefer Zombie Apocalypse, you sorry piece of genetic garbage. 🙂 🙂 🙂

          1. Diversion, again. You confirmed.

          2. Those Zionist crypto-Jooz are famous for their propensity for “ideological diversion”. The KGB, Stasi and their sister services all used to have entire departments devoted to combating it/them. Ah, the good old days. 🙂

        2. Hind Abyad Avatar
          Hind Abyad

          No they don’t, c’mon you know that..
          “The recent visit by Saudi personalities, including former general Anwar Eshki, and their meetings with representatives of the Netanyahu government, on the pretext of advancing a dialogue about the Arab peace initiative, were not designed to challenge Israel’s refusal strategy, but to legitimize it by giving Arab ‘sponsorship’ to voiding the initiative of any content and for eliminating the two-state solution and the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination,” said a statement issued by Hadash, a faction with the Joint List of Arab parties.

          “The visit is part of the normalization of cooperation between Saudi Arabia and Israel against Iran, Syria and resistance movements in the region,” the statement continued.
          http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.732889

      2. Hannibal Avatar
        Hannibal

        An arab long-nosed semite anti-long-nose jew semite? That is an oxymoron… Last I learned Sarah and Hagar fuc|<ed the same long-nosed man. 😉

        1. Matrix Avatar

          Talking about Arab/Jewish nose, we can start with Helen Thomas
          https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/768313935882a5e11a9fa0cf9b43c87df4ebf5128beee9d71114f38d184b2c02.jpg
          the dead venerated grande dame of the White House press corps through ten presidential administrations, self-proclaimed terrorist elitist, and noted Jew-hating scumbucket. – The Witch is Dead.

          The rest you can identify by yourself….

          1. Hannibal Avatar
            Hannibal

            That is why I said Arab and Jews are first cousins… 😉 Same father… Same nose… and about Helen Thomas we will all die one day… The important thing is that Helen will be in heaven with Yahweh and you in hell with Satan. Follow Jesus so you may be redeemed 😉

    2. Matrix Avatar

      The peace process died on the evening of 4 November 1995 the same day that Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated!

      Rabin was assassinated by Yigal Amir, a right-wing extremist who opposed the signing of the Oslo Accords.

      The same falang is governing Israel today, and that means confrontation with the Palestinian Arabs and continued occupation of the West Bank.

      1. Hind Abyad Avatar
        Hind Abyad

        Very.. “interesting”..

        1. Matrix Avatar

          The reality is always “Very.. “interesting”..” and incommodious.

          1. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Absolutely not “incommodious”. “You will see the long-term effects of your actions”. They will reap what they saw.
            As if God woul have chosen Fascism Haha..Insuferable

    3. Hind Abyad Avatar
      Hind Abyad

      Now it will be interesting.. pfwhahahaa.. business

  2. I think it’s worth noting that the (crypto-Jew) Outhouse of Saud and IsraHell were never enemies.

    What will surprise those who may already be surprised about the Dönmeh connection to Turkey, is the Dönmeh connection to the House of Saud in Saudi Arabia.

    -> http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2011/10/26/the-doenmeh-the-middle-easts-most-whispered-secret-part-ii.html

    1. I think it’s worth noting that a (crypto-)Joo used to beat the shit out of you when you were growing up. In retrospect, how can anyone blame him? 🙂

      1. Don’t you wish.

        1. No worries, mate. I wouldn’t touch you with a stick.

    2. johngilbert Avatar
      johngilbert

      Nothing new here that Arabs and Jews are both Semites.

      1. Not all Jews are Semite; only the ones from Arab countries. The ones from Europe and rest of World are not.

  3. Hind Abyad Avatar
    Hind Abyad

    Israel wants sharia for Syria, not Assad.:-)))

    1. Rudy1947 Avatar
      Rudy1947

      Sure they do. LOL. Sure.

  4. Hind Abyad Avatar
    Hind Abyad

    Israeli Intel Chief: We Don’t Want ISIS Defeated in Syria
    http://news.antiwar.com/2016/06/21/israeli-intel-chief-we-dont-want-isis-defeated-in-syria/

    1. Rudy1947 Avatar
      Rudy1947

      Long story short, the article and it’s link is pure hypothetical garbage.

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