(Haaretz) A U.S.-based Saudi lobbyist called for closer economic ties between Israel and Saudi Arabia in an op-ed on The Hill, in possibly yet another sign of a thaw in traditional Saudi hostility to Israel.
Saudi Arabia technically still does not recognize Israel’s existence. In his op-ed, however, Salman al-Ansari, the founder and president of the Washington-based Saudi Public Relation Affairs Committee, asserted that “the prevailing political discourse might not only indicate that it is in the interest of [Saudi Arabia and Israel] to form a collaborative alliance, but in the interest of the greater Middle East and their global allies as well.”
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