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In an interview with “Fox News” after his return from his overseas tour, and on his expectations of the Saudi initiative for normalization with Tel Aviv, Pompeo replied: “Yes, and I look forward to more normalization announcements, perhaps within 30-60 days “.
The interlocutor asked him: “Has Iran been close to possessing a nuclear weapon and are you and the administration in your last days?” Pompeo responded that “the expectations of those parties (Biden) are wrong. The previous administration chose to give Iran large sums of money, and we decided to deprive them of it.”
When asked about his biggest foreign policy concerns about the next administration, he replied: “I know some of these people, they had a completely different view. They lived in a somewhat fictional world. They were driving from behind, I hope they choose a path. different”.
Pompeo praised the “Abraham” deals concluded by the Trump administration in the Middle East and “the central recognition of the Chinese Communist Party as a real threat to jobs across the United States.”
“If they preserve these things, I think America’s path will be safer and more prosperous,” he said.
The US Secretary of State also rejected former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis’s criticism of US President Donald Trump’s “America First” foreign policy approach, describing it as “completely wrong.”
After Israeli Army Radio revealed that a meeting was held in Saudi Arabia last Sunday that included Netanyahu and the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia in the presence of Pompeo, the Saudi Foreign Minister, Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, denied that “ there was a meeting that took place in the presence of Israeli officials in the country. ”
Regarding the Saudi denial, the daily “Yediot Aharonot” said: “This denial does not mean that the meeting did not take place, but the point is that the Saudis are very embarrassed to announce this meeting.”
He continued: “As has often been reported, there are Israelis and Saudis at various political, diplomatic and intelligence levels who have been meeting for years.”
He noted that “in” Israel “and Saudi Arabia are preparing for the era of President-elect Joe Biden, and if there is concern in” Israel “about the new administration in Washington, then in Saudi Arabia there are real concerns.”
“Yediot Aharonot” also saw that Bin Salman is convinced that the “CIA” intends to liquidate him, at least politically, and return the beloved crown prince, Prince Muhammad bin Nayef, who placed bin Salman under house arrest after that took away his crown prince status. “
After that, the head of the Israeli “national security” research institute, Reserve Major General Amos Yadlin, said: “The Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister denied Netanyahu’s meeting with Bin Salman because he represented other ministers of Foreign Relations of the region who did not know about the meeting “.
Simultaneously, the newspaper “Israel Hayom” said: “Bin Salman agreed to publish the news of the meeting with Netanyahu to discuss the reactions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Arab world.”
The newspaper confirmed that a source related to senior officials in Saudi Arabia told them that “this meeting is not the first between Netanyahu and Bin Salman, and that such meetings were held recently, and that meeting participants agreed to release their details to broadcast. messages to the new administration in the United States “. “.
The Israeli newspaper “Jerusalem Post” said that the secret flight to Saudi Arabia could have remained under the radar, with the transmitter and receiver turned off, but the trip by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was public. And for specific reasons.
Channel 12 quoted a “high-level” Israeli political source as saying that “the Saudis have made it clear that they are not yet ripe for normalization with Israel.”
This came after Israeli media revealed the meeting and said that “during the meeting of the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia and Pompeo, two secret Israeli flights departed from” Israel “to Saudi Arabia.”
The Israeli website Channel Seven also announced that “a secret flight to Saudi Arabia took off on Sunday from Ben Gurion airport to Saudi Arabia and stayed for 4 hours to be exact, at the time when Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was meeting with the Saudi crown prince. “
The Yediot Aharonot website said the plane that took off from Ben Gurion Airport to Saudi Arabia had previously been used by Netanyahu, with the site indicating that the latter and the Mossad chief were on board. He noted that Netanyahu, accompanied by the head of the Mossad, met with the Saudi crown prince, and the trip took about 5 hours.
The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain are reported to have signed an agreement with “Israel” to “normalize families” at the White House, in the presence of President Trump, and under the patronage of the United States last month.
And there were many reports about the possibility of Saudi Arabia being next on the normalization map with “Israel.”
