Alwaght- A senior advisor of Saudi King Salman says Riyadh is committed to making 'peace' with the Israeli regime, and that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is vital to that process.
Anwar Ashki, one of the new Saudi king’s closest advisers who is also the director of the Middle East Center for Strategic Studies in Jeddah made the remarks Wednesday in an interview with Israeli regime's propaganda channel, I24.
Ashaki is the man through whom Saudi Arabia and the Israeli regime are currently conducting talks.
Ashki said that 'peace' between Israelis and Palestinians has failed until now because no plans were made to implement 'peace'. This, he said, is a reason for the failure of Saudi Arabia’s own 2002 'peace' proposal.
He also voiced positive views of the extremist Israeli regime's PM Netanyahu, claiming he is the key to establishing 'peace'.
“We need Netanyahu, because he is a strong man, and he is a logical man. We need him to announce and accept a peace proposal.”
In contrast, Ashki expressed concern over the Islamic Republic of Iran and what he termed as its "regional expansionism". He claimed that Iranians are planning to expand to Iraq and Syria until they reach the Mediterranean.
It's worth noting that the Saudi policy in the region has always been siding with the Israeli barbarism against the Islamic resistance in Palestina and the Muslim world. Analysts say it is ironic that the Saudi King claims to be the 'custodian' of the two holy Mosques (first two holiest sites in Islam in Mecca and Medina) while at the same time collaborating with the Israeli regime which is bent on destroying the third holiest site in Islam, the al Aqsa Mosque in al Quds (Jerusalem)
In June a report revealed that representatives from the Israeli and Saudi regime secretly met five times since the beginning of last year to discuss their positions against Iran.
The five bilateral meetings were held in India, Italy, and the Czech Republic.
Riyadh and Tel Aviv both oppose, what they call, the expansion of Iran's regional influence and fiercely opposed the final agreement between world powers and Tehran on the Islamic Republic‘s peaceful nuclear energy program.
Although Tel Aviv and Riyadh do not have diplomatic ties, reports of their long-time cooperation on various matters have emerged.