Saudi normalization will not happen under Netanyahu government, source says - report

The Jerusalem Post · MAYA ZANGER-SHAMIR · 2026-11-06 10:21 UTC

"Saudi Arabia wants peace, negotiations, and for the Israeli-Palestinian issue to be closed via a two-state solution," the Saudi source said. "But Netanyahu is not there."

Normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia cannot happen while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remains in power, a source familiar with the Saudi diplomatic agenda told Israel's KAN News on Thursday.

"Saudi Arabia wants peace, negotiations, and for the Israeli-Palestinian issue to be closed via a two-state solution," the source said. "But Netanyahu is not there."

The source told KAN that the issue is policy-based rather than personal, saying that the Gulf nation "has no interest in the identity of the prime minister of Israel...Netanyahu, in our view, only wants to cause problems. He does not want peace; he wants escalation."

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