Saudi israeli relations

"Saudi Arabia is a hostile country and we must ensure that Israel’s qualitative military edge is preserved."

Israel would be expected to freeze settlement construction as part of steps toward normalizing ties.

Commentators, government officials and the media, especially those from the West, like neat, clean stories of alliances. This is a historical bias.

Israeli leaders have hinted at improving ties with the Saudis and their Gulf neighbors, but the Saudis may be no less devious or subversive than their Iranian rivals.

In their call, Trump also expressed his view that an international nuclear agreement brokered with Iran in 2015 should be "rigorously enforced."

Last month, Palestinians were left wondering, as a Saudi newspaper took Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s side in a dispute with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

Softer media reporting "is a sign there is less enmity," says one Israeli official.

Gold: Arab leaders are “laying out a case against Iranian actions, and we are seeing it expressed over and over by Arab leaders.”

Rabbi Michael Melchior said the day when Israelis can travel to Saudi Arabia is “in the cards and it will, as we say Inshallah, ‘with god’s help,’ happen very soon.”

The Hezbollah leader has an interest in exaggerating Israeli-Saudi relations.