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Iran, domestic antisemitism, Holocaust restitution and advancing the Abraham Accords were on the table in high-level meetings with world leaders.
Provisions of U.N. Security Council Resolution 2231 regarding Tehran’s missile activities are set to expire on Oct. 18.
The incumbent, Gilad Erdan, is due to leave the post next year.
The Israeli premier met with Biden and more than a dozen other world leaders on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly.
“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 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.
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.
A senior adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told JNS that Netanyahu meant to say “credible military threat” and that he stands by the original text of the speech.
“The protesters on the other side,” Rabbi Shmuley Boteach told JNS, “have forgotten who the real enemy is. Bibi is a hero, and Iran is the villain. I hope the protesters across the street know that.”
WATCH: JNS CEO/Jerusalem Bureau Chief Alex Traiman and Senior Contributing Editor Caroline Glick offer a complete rundown and in-depth analysis of the multiple storylines taking place simultaneously as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a series of diplomatic meetings in the United States during the U.N. General Assembly.
