Israeli Minister Gallant: We’re Ready for Peace with Arab States

• Israeli Minister Gallant: We’re Ready for Peace with Arab States
  by ANNA AHRONHEIM, https://www.jpost.com/
  ‘We have shared interests and a shared enemy: Iran’
  Israel is ready to make peace with every Arab country, Construction Minister and former OC Southern Command Yoav Gallant told The Jerusalem Post in an exclusive interview.
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  “All of the relations we have with Arab countries, every relationship that is conducted behind closed doors and not publicly, this is done by their own choice. Israel is ready for peace with every Arab country,” Gallant, who is also a member of the security cabinet, told the Post in his office in Jerusalem ahead of the paper’s annual Diplomatic Conference.
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  “If you look at the picture, there is no real reason for Saudi Arabia or the Gulf states to fight with Israel. We have shared interests, a shared enemy called Iran, which threatens Saudi Arabia from close with all that it has. And therefore there is no reason we should not be in the process to have peace in the region,” he said.
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  “Israel always stretches its hand out for peace with its neighbors… as it did after the Yom Kippur War with the Egyptians.” 
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  While Israel has no official ties with any Arab country except for Egypt and Jordan, the relationships with Saudi Arabia and Gulf states have grown stronger in recent years due to the shared concerns about Iran’s actions and ambitions in the Middle East.
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