Republican Governor Ron DeSantis said that US President Joe Biden's alienation of Riyadh makes a normalization agreement with Saudi Arabia unlikely on Thursday at the Jerusalem Post and Museum of Tolerance Celebrate the Faces of Israel conference.
“This
administration has made a special effort to annoy the Saudis. I believe that
Saudi Arabia might accept Israel's existence with the right approach and
relationships,” according to DeSantis.
Notably,
he gave a speech during the conference, which The Museum of Tolerance also
supported. He is currently in the third country on a multi-nation business trip
that also covers Japan, South Korea, and the UK.
However,
there is a lot of talk that the trip is a lead-up to an announcement that he
plans to challenge Biden for the presidency in 2024. However, he has yet to
make an announcement, and during a news conference he similarly declined to
confirm a 2024 presidential election.
Interestingly,
DeSantis has a long history of standing up for Israel, and he has supported both
Israeli authority over West Bank settlements and Jerusalem as the capital of
Israel. He is one of the lawmakers who refers to that area as Judea and
Samaria, and on his 2019 visit to Israel, he went to both the Ariel settlement
and the Gush Etzion neighborhood of Ariel.
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