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Netanyahu Responds to Trump: Saudi Arabia Joining Abraham Accords Would Be Historic Leap
Netanyahu said Saudi recognition of Israel would be a significant step as the United States tied a civilian nuclear deal to normalization.
- On Thursday, July 23, 2026, in JERUSALEM, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that Saudi recognition of Israel would be a significant step toward Middle East peace.
- President Donald Trump said a landmark civilian nuclear deal announced Wednesday by The United States and Saudi Arabia is contingent on Riyadh normalizing relations with Israel.
- Saudi Arabia, the region's largest economy, has maintained it will not normalize relations with Israel without a clear path to Palestinian statehood, departing from previous regional consensus.
- Joint American and Israeli military actions against Tehran have weakened Iran's terror axis, creating the opportunity to expand the circle of peace agreements beyond current Abraham Accords members.
- Brokered during President Trump's first term, the Abraham Accords reshaped regional alignments around shared concerns about Iran rather than the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with Saudi Arabia viewed as a key addition.
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Israel says Saudi recognition would be 'historic' for regional peace
"Saudi Arabia's joining of the Abraham Accords would be a historic leap forward for peace in the Middle East," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said after the US announced a civilian nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia.
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First of all, Trump leaves Israel out of the nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia, then he makes a rapprochement a condition. For Netanyahu, this is the third setback within a month.
·Düsseldorf, Germany
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