Can Israel evolve into a key player in Saudi Arabia’s strategy against Iran?,Rose Report: Melting Ice in Saudi Arabia,Can Israel evolve into a key player in Saudi Arabia’s strategy against Iran?
Col. (res.) Dr. Eran Lerman doesn’t foresee Israel and Saudi Arabia establishing diplomatic relations in the near term but he does view the warming of ties as Israel’s opportunity to pursue better relations with the Sunni Muslim world
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My one experience with Saudi Arabians came when I was on assignment in Kazakhstan in 2006.
The occasion was an interfaith conference sponsored by Kazakhstan president Nursultan Nazarbayev which I attended as a guest of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress.
Most Israeli journalists myself included were spurned when we approached delegates and fellow journalists from Arab countries. I remember asking one young man in a kaffiyeh where he was from. He looked at me mumbled “Saudi Arabia ” and looked down.
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