Alwaght- A retired Saudi general has revealed that the Riyadh monarchy is ready to establish diplomatic ties with the Israeli regime in a move that will now make public the hitherto clandestine ties between the two regimes.
During an interview with the Qatari-owned Al Jazeera TV station, Anwar Eshki in replying a question of how long it would take before Riyadh opens an embassy in Israel said that “If Netanyahu accepts the Arab Peace Initiative, we’ll open an embassy in Israel.”
In the interview, Eshki said the Saudis are not interested in “Israel becoming isolated in the region.”
Asked why the Saudi regime was willing to take military action in Yemen but never physically protect Palestinians in Gaza from Israeli bombardment, Eshki said, “I told the Iranians about that: ‘You support the Palestinians by weapons, but we support them with money. When we support the Palestinians with money, we want them to live well, and you give them weapons to destroy themselves.”
Eshki, 73, is the chairman of the Jeddah-based Middle East Center for Strategic and Legal Studies and a former consultant of the Saudi prince and ambassador in the US, Bandar bin Sultan.
Prior to the public meeting with Gold in New York, Eshki held half a dozen meeting with him in various capitals.
In August 2015, Eshki told The Wall Street Journal that “the main project between me and Dore Gold is to bring peace between Arab countries and Israel. This is personal, but my government knows about the project.
Reactionary Arab states such as Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE have established open and secret with the Israeli regime unmindful of its unprecedented war crimes, genocide, atrocities against Palestinians and occupation of Palestinian territories especially the third holiest Islamic site, the Al Aqsa Mosque.
