Israeli analyst: Our relations with Saudi Arabia have been firmly established since the 1980s

SANAA, Nov. 24 (YPA) – Israeli Middle East affairs analyst Ehud Yaari said bilateral relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel have been taking root since the 1980s.

“Relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia have been established since the 1980s, and in the past they have included plans to build an oil pipeline from fields in the Persian Gulf through Israel to the Mediterranean, but none of these projects have matured for political reasons,” Yaari told Israel’s Channel 12.

In the areas of intelligence and security, the results were even more encouraging, although the level of rapprochement and cooperation that existed with the UAE did not exist with Saudi Arabia even before they signed the peace agreement with Israel.

It was comforting for the Saudis that the UAE paved the way for normalization and then granted permission to Bahrain and Sudan to follow this path.

The Saudis, by the way, hope that they will be joined by Oman and Morocco, which have a complex relationship with Saudi Arabia, and many Saudi princes are staying in Moroccan cities.

E.M