Sen. Graham calls on White House to normalize relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel
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Sen. Lindsey Graham said Sunday he would “like to help” the White House achieve a high-stakes normalization deal between Saudi Arabia and Israel and urged officials to act saying, “We’re running out of time.”
Sen. Lindsey Graham said Sunday he would “like to help” the White House achieve a high-stakes normalization deal between Saudi Arabia and Israel and urged officials to act, saying, “We’re running out of time.” “If we can get a deal between Saudi Arabia and Israel, it ends the Arab-Israeli conflict, it isolates the Iranians, it creates some hope for the Palestinians, it provides security in a real way to Israel,” the South Carolina Republican told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union.” “I don’t think anybody on the Republican side is going to undercut the deal,” added Graham, who has become an unlikely diplomatic ally to White House officials negotiating with Saudi leaders. Graham said he has spoken twice about the issue with President Joe Biden and has worked alongside Secretary of State Antony Blinken and national security adviser Jake Sullivan to “help them normalize Saudi Arabia and Israel.” Blinken is traveling this week to Saudi Arabia to meet with regional partners while hostage negotiation and ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas remain stagnant. Graham, who embarked on his own trip to Saudi Arabia last month, called on administration officials to “get on with closing the treaty” for a mutual defense agreement between the United States and Saudi Arabia. “Without the treaty, MBS (Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman) cannot recognize Israel, and part of the deal will be coming up with a solution to the Palestinian problem,” he continued, adding, “Without this deal, there is no solution to the Palestinian problem.”
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