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Israeli media quoted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as saying that he had visited other Arab countries recently, seeing this as an allusion to his controversial visit to Saudi Arabia last November.
According to media reports, Netanyahu’s statement came during a closed-door meeting of the Likud party secretariat on Saturday night, in response to a question on whether Israel intends to normalize relations with the Kurdistan region in Iraq.
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Netanyahu said: “I recently visited other Arab countries, and since I could not speak (beforehand) about the UAE, I cannot speak now,” in what the “Jerusalem Post” newspaper described as “his first known confirmation” of his supposed visit to Saudi Arabia.
Netanyahu’s visits to Arab countries have not been disclosed recently, except for his visit to the Saudi city of Neom, where he met with the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, in the presence of the US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, according to leaks, which the Saudi Foreign Ministry denied.
Netanyahu’s comments came two weeks after he said that “many countries” will sign normalization agreements with Israel “much earlier than people expect.”
Earlier, Netanyahu expressed his hope to visit the Emirates and Bahrain after the conclusion of the peace accords with Israel in 2020, but has yet to do so.
In 2018, he is reported to have visited the Sultanate of Oman, which does not have diplomatic relations with Israel.
Source: Israeli media
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