Joe Biden says normalization of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia is ‘still a long way off’

during an interview on CNN Broadcast on Sunday, Joe Biden said there was still a long way to go before relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia normalized. “We are far from that. There are still many points to discuss,” the US president noted, but stressed, however, that there was “progress.” While, in his view, Saudi Arabia has no real problems with Israel, he said that peace “will depend on what is required of the kingdom to achieve normalization, such as a security alliance between Riyadh, Washington, and Jerusalem, but also what it can do in return, i.e. a civilian nuclear program.” .

The head of state’s words come as the Israeli foreign minister recently expressed optimism about imminent normalization between Jerusalem and Riyadh.

When asked, first of all, about a forthcoming invitation from Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House, after President Herzog’s invitation, Joe Biden once again hinted that he linked the prime minister’s upcoming visit to Washington to the future of judicial reform. The position of the Israeli ministers on the extreme right: “Bibi, I think, is trying to figure out how he can solve the problems his coalition poses,” adding, “Let’s hope he continues to move towards moderation.”

Speaking of the Israeli coalition, the tenant of the White House has already claimed that some of its members were “the most extremist ever” in the country’s history, pointing in particular to the responsibility of Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir at the present time. Tensions in the West Bank. “Part of the problem is with the current fluctuations in the territories,” Ben Gvir and Smotrich said.