Israel has had secret talks with several Arab Countries: Netanyahu

TIL Desk/World/Tel Aviv/ Israel has had secret talks with several Arab countries to normalize relations, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.

“There are many more unpublicized meetings with Arab and Muslim leaders,” Netanyahu said during joint remarks here on Sunday alongside Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, and National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien.

Netanyahu said these Arab leaders “recognize that their true interests are to normalize relations with Israel”.

Kushner referred to the so-called Abraham Accord, the August 13 US-brokered peace agreement between Israel and the UAE to normalize ties, as a “historic breakthrough,” saying “the stage is set” for other Arab states to follow the UAE.