{"id":46129,"date":"2024-01-09T17:29:09","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T07:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=46129"},"modified":"2024-01-09T17:29:09","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T07:29:09","slug":"blinken-discusses-israel-normalisation-in-tented-saudi-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=46129","title":{"rendered":"Blinken discusses Israel normalisation in tented Saudi talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>US top diplomat Antony Blinken said there was &#8220;clear interest&#8221; in pursuing relations with Israel after talks in Saudi Arabia on Monday, the latest stop in a tour to calm a region inflamed by the Israel-Hamas war.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Blinken also said all the leaders on his tour, which took him to six countries before heading to Israel, had agreed to work with the US to help Gaza&#8217;s recovery and long-term stability.<\/p>\n<p>He was speaking after meeting Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto Saudi ruler, in a lavish tent outside Al Ula, a historic oasis town.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We talked about (Israeli normalisation) actually on every stop, including of course here in Saudi Arabia,&#8221; he told reporters before flying to Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I can tell you this, there&#8217;s a clear interest here in pursuing that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tentative efforts towards potential ties between Saudi, home of Islam&#8217;s two holiest sites, and Israel were halted after the Israel-Hamas war flared just over three months ago.<\/p>\n<p>The war started with Hamas&#8217;s unprecedented October 7 attack on Israel, which resulted in about 1,140 deaths, most of them civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures.<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US top diplomat Antony Blinken said there was &#8220;clear interest&#8221; in pursuing relations with Israel after talks in Saudi Arabia on Monday, the latest stop in a tour to calm a region inflamed by the Israel-Hamas war. Blinken also said all the leaders on his tour, which took him to six countries before heading to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[137],"class_list":["post-46129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-blinken-discusses-israel-normalisation-in-tented-saudi-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}