{"id":31106,"date":"2016-10-16T11:02:03","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T18:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/saudi-commentator-praises-israel-latest-sign-of-warming-ties-between-jewish-and-arab-states"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:08:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:08:50","slug":"saudi-commentator-praises-israel-latest-sign-of-warming-ties-between-jewish-and-arab-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/saudi-commentator-praises-israel-latest-sign-of-warming-ties-between-jewish-and-arab-states","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Commentator Praises Israel; Latest Sign of Warming Ties Between Jewish and Arab States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/saudi-commentator-praises-israel-latest-sign-of-warming-ties-between-jewish-and-arab-states.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Could technology build friendships for Israel across the Middle East?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Israel and Saudi Arabia should form a \u201ccollaborative alliance\u201d to become the \u201ctwin pillars of regional stability\u201d in the Middle East, a top Saudi lobbyist wrote in <em>The Hill<\/em> on Tuesday, in what is the latest sign of warming and increasingly-public ties between Arab countries and the Jewish state.<\/p>\n<p>Salman al-Ansari, the founder and president of the Saudi American Public Relations Affairs Committee, asserted that Israel can assist Saudi Arabia in implementing its <a href=\"http:\/\/vision2030.gov.sa\/en\" target=\"_blank\">Vision 2030<\/a>, the Kingdom\u2019s blueprint to diversify its economy. Al-Ansari specifically mentioned Israel\u2019s expertise in mining and water technology, which makes Israel \u201cextraordinarily qualified to help Saudi Arabia with its ambitious desalination plans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the man in charge of implementing Vision 2030, \u201cis prepared and willing to develop real, enduring ties with Israel,\u201d al-Ansari wrote, adding, \u201cAny form of normalization between the two countries is also an Arabic and Muslim normalization towards Israel, which will undoubtedly promote security and weaken extremism in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetower.org\/4041oc-saudi-commentator-praises-israel-latest-sign-of-warming-ties-between-jewish-and-arab-states\/\">http:\/\/www.thetower.org\/4041oc-saudi-commentator-praises-isr...ab-states\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could technology build friendships for Israel across the Middle East? Israel and Saudi Arabia should form a \u201ccollaborative alliance\u201d to become the \u201ctwin pillars of regional stability\u201d in the Middle East, a top Saudi lobbyist wrote in The Hill on Tuesday, in what is the latest sign of warming and increasingly-public ties between Arab countries [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1492,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-security","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31106"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65982,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31106\/revisions\/65982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}