{"id":1815,"date":"2017-11-20T01:44:33","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T02:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madaresharghi.com\/israeli-minister-discloses-covert-ties-with-saudi-arabia-for-first-time\/"},"modified":"2017-11-20T01:44:33","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T02:44:33","slug":"israeli-minister-discloses-covert-ties-with-saudi-arabia-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madaresharghi.ir\/en\/israeli-minister-discloses-covert-ties-with-saudi-arabia-for-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli minister discloses covert ties with Saudi Arabia for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madaresharghi..com\">madaresharghi<\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><h2 class=\"lide\">Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz has for the first time revealed that Tel Aviv has had covert contacts with Saudi Arabia.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"104\">\n<p>\n\t\u201cWe have ties that are indeed partly covert with many Muslim and Arab countries, and usually [we are] the party that is not ashamed,\u201d Steinitz said in an interview on Army Radio on Sunday, presstv.com wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHe added that Saudi Arabia was the side that was interested in hiding its ties with Israel and Tel Aviv had no problem with this.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cBut we respect the other side&#8217;s wish, when ties are developing, whether it&#8217;s with Saudi Arabia or with other Arab countries or other Muslim countries, and there is much more &#8230; [but] we keep it secret,\u201d the minister emphasized.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWhen asked what Israel could gain from contacts with Saudi Arabia, Steinitz said, &#8220;The contacts with the moderate Arab world, including with Saudi Arabia, help us to stop Iran. When we fought to get a better nuclear deal with Iran, with only partial success, there was some help from moderate Arab countries vis-\u00e0-vis the United States and the Western powers to assist us in this matter and even today, when we press the world powers not to agree to the establishment of an Iranian military base in Syria on our northern border, the Sunni Arab world is helping us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHis comments came a few days after Chief of Staff of Israeli military, Lieutenant General Gadi Eizenkot, said Tel Aviv was ready to share intelligence with Saudi Arabia in their joint efforts to confront Iran.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn an interview with the Saudi-owned Elaph online newspaper on Thursday, Eizenkot claimed that Iran was the &#8220;biggest threat to the region\u201d and was seeking \u201cto take control of the Middle East.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn an interview with the Saudi-owned Elaph online newspaper on Thursday, Eizenkot claimed that Iran was the &#8220;biggest threat to the region\u201d and was seeking \u201cto take control of the Middle East.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHe also accused Iran of trying to destabilize the region by building weapons factories and supplying arms to resistance groups such as Hezbollah.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tDuring the past months, there have been numerous reports of the two sides planning to establish full diplomatic ties.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tOn November 18, Israeli minister of military affairs extended the hand of friendship to Arab countries, calling on them to form an alliance against Iran.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAvigdor Lieberman wrote on his Facebook page on Saturday that the Middle East region now requires an anti-Iran coalition.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tA report published earlier in June revealed that Saudi Arabia and the Israeli regime were in clandestine talks to establish official economic relations for the first time since the entity was created on the Palestinian territories some 69 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe Times, citing unnamed Arab and American sources, said in a report on June 17 that forming economic connections between to two, which would be gradual and step by step, could begin by allowing Israeli companies to open shops in the Arab kingdom, or granting El Al Israel Airlines Ltd. permission to fly over Saudi airspace.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>madaresharghi Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz has for the first time revealed that Tel Aviv has had covert contacts with Saudi Arabia. \u201cWe have ties that are indeed partly covert with many Muslim and Arab countries, and usually [we are] the party that is not ashamed,\u201d Steinitz said in an interview on Army Radio on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[296,118,28,31,159,639,178,56,213,84,95,82,68,22,23,27],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.7 - 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