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“Our police officers were placed at significant risk being in a gunfight armed with 9 mm Glocks against long arms,” the New South Wales Police deputy commissioner told an antisemitism inquiry.
The visitors are led by Nayef al-Sudairi, Riyadh’s first non-resident envoy to the P.A. and consul general to Jerusalem.
The incumbent, Gilad Erdan, is due to leave the post next year.
The Saudi foreign minister made no direct mention of Israel or normalization in his UNGA speech; the American Jewish reaction to Netanyahu’s address was also scant.
The Israeli premier met with Biden and more than a dozen other world leaders on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly.
Stanlee Stahl, executive vice president of the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, said the honor is also for the many Polish heroes who saved Jews during the Holocaust.
“We have so much in common,” the Israeli prime minister told leaders of Palau, Nauru, Marshall Islands, Fiji and Papua New Guinea, and of the Pacific Islands Forum.
The centenarian former U.S. secretary of state is “a longtime friend of Israel and a true statesman,” wrote Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The leaders discussed the public health and water management challenges that their nations face, and ways Israel can offer assistance.
The Israeli, Indian, Emerati and U.S. group is becoming more of a concrete entity, Asher Fredman, director for Israel at the Abraham Accords Peace Institute, told JNS.
On the 50th anniversary of the war, Itzhak Levanon tells JNS that Israel and Egypt have been close in many ways, but there is more work to be done.
Israel is “at the cusp of an even more dramatic breakthrough: an historic peace with Saudi Arabia,” the Israeli prime minister said. “It will encourage a broader reconciliation between Judaism and Islam, between Jerusalem and Mecca, between the descendants of Isaac and the descendants of Ishmael.”
“Israel and Saudi have already normalized. When the formal agreement comes is anyone’s guess,” wrote Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
