Saudi Arabia has ‘quite a lot of room’ to construct Palestinian state, says Netanyahu

In an obvious swipe on the Saudi demand to Palestinian statehood, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has mentioned {that a} Palestinian state could also be established inside Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia has said that the institution of the Palestinian state comprising West Financial institution and Gaza Strip with East Jerusalem because the capital is the premise of any normalisation settlement with Israel. Within the wake of US President
Donald Trump’s announcement of the plan to annex Gaza and expelling all Palestinians from the strip, which has been endorsed by Netanyahu, Saudis have doubled down on their demand.

In an interview with Hebrew-language Channel 14, Netanyahu mentioned that “the Saudis can create a Palestinian state in Saudi Arabia; they’ve quite a lot of land over there”, in keeping with an English translation carried by The Every day Telegraph.

In the identical interview,
Netanyahu rejected that Palestinian statehood after the October 7 assault of Hamas could be a “big victory” to terrorism and a “big defeat” of Israel.

“There was a Palestinian state. They referred to as it Gaza. Hamas-led Gaza was a Palestinian state and look what we received – the most important bloodbath because the Holocaust. And to ascertain a Palestinian state after October 7 is a big reward for terrorism. An enormous victory not just for Hamas [but also for] Iran. And an enormous defeat for us and our companions,” mentioned Netanyahu.

In yet one more rejection of the Saudi demand, Netanyahu mentioned that Israel “should be very robust and it should bypass the Palestinian veto to exit into the Arab world”.

Inside hours of Trump asserting the plan to annex Gaza, Saudi Arabia issued a remarkably fast and powerful assertion that rejected Trump’s place on Gaza and declare that he had made about Saudi’s place on Gaza. In a press convention by which Trump introduced he would annex Gaza, he additionally mentioned that Saudi Arabia has not demanded Palestinians statehood as the premise of the normalisation take care of Israel.

Within the assertion,
Saudi Arabia categorically mentioned there wouldn’t be any deal with out the creation of a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital and that Saudi Arabia stays “agency, unwavering” within the dedication to Palestinian statehood.

To stipulate the Saudi place on the difficulty, the assertion referred to a speech by Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto Saudi ruler, to the federal government’s essential advisory physique by which he mentioned that “the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is not going to cease its tireless work in the direction of the institution of an impartial Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, and that the Kingdom is not going to set up diplomatic relations with Israel with out that”.

In a direct rejection of Trump’s concept of settling Palestinians outdoors of Gaza, the Saudi assertion confused the “beforehand introduced categorical rejection of any infringement on the reliable rights of the Palestinian folks, whether or not by means of Israeli settlement insurance policies, annexation of Palestinian lands, or makes an attempt to displace the Palestinian folks from their land”.

Following Trump and Netanyahu’s newfound place on Gaza, which primarily kills the two-state resolution, Egypt introduced on Sunday that it’ll host an emergency summit of Arab nations on February 27. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Jordanian King Abdullah II will lead the summit referred to as the request of the Palestinian management in Ramallah, West Financial institution.

Egypt mentioned that the summit was was referred to as after “in depth consultations by Egypt on the highest ranges with Arab international locations in latest days, together with Palestine, which requested the summit, to deal with the newest severe developments concerning the Palestinian trigger”, as per The Telegraph.