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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,442 posts)
Sun Apr 28, 2024, 03:46 PM Apr 28

Sen. Graham calls on White House to normalize relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel

Source: CNN

Sen. Lindsey Graham said Sunday he would “like to help” the White House achieve a high-stakes normalization deal between Saudi Arabia and Israel and urged officials to act, saying, “We’re running out of time.”

“If we can get a deal between Saudi Arabia and Israel, it ends the Arab-Israeli conflict, it isolates the Iranians, it creates some hope for the Palestinians, it provides security in a real way to Israel,” the South Carolina Republican told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union.”

“I don’t think anybody on the Republican side is going to undercut the deal,” added Graham, who has become an unlikely diplomatic ally to White House officials negotiating with Saudi leaders.

Graham said he has spoken twice about the issue with President Joe Biden and has worked alongside Secretary of State Antony Blinken and national security adviser Jake Sullivan to “help them normalize Saudi Arabia and Israel.”

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/sen-graham-calls-white-house-150004911.html



Things seemed to be headed that way before the Oct. 7 attack on Israel. In fact it's theorized Iran pushed Hamas hoping to avoid better relations between Israel and the Arab world.
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Raven123

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1. What? He doesn't think anyone on the GOP side will undercut a deal?
Sun Apr 28, 2024, 03:50 PM
Apr 28

Heck, Lindsey will undercut a deal himself if instructed by TFG.

azureblue

(2,157 posts)
15. then why doesn't he do it?
Mon Apr 29, 2024, 09:10 AM
Apr 29

Since we know his party will reject or try to sabotage what ever Biden comes up with? Go on, Lindsey, you go over there and come up with a working solution..

Lulu KC

(2,579 posts)
5. Thank you! I thought the same thing!
Sun Apr 28, 2024, 04:40 PM
Apr 28

Yes, what a great idea! Hey, Joe, how about some world peace? (If anyone could do it, he can, but seriously, Lindsay?)

jaxexpat

(6,880 posts)
14. What would "normal" relations between those two actually look like.
Mon Apr 29, 2024, 07:54 AM
Apr 29

One wants to wholesale exterminate a political entity while the other publicly and brutally murders its whistle blowers. What could go wrong?

Another episode of, "What's Leslie Bloviating About on Camera This Sunday?"

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