Israel Was Completely Isolated … Israel Now Connects to the World: Benjamin Netanyahu (File)
Jerusalem:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday that a trio of normalization agreements with Arab states offered an end to the Jewish state’s former geographic isolation, with shorter and cheaper flights.
“We are changing the map of the Middle East,” he said at a Hebrew-language televised press conference, showing a whiteboard with diagrams of flight lanes.
Air travel over Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates would save passengers hours to India and other Asian destinations and of course a lot of money, ”he said. declared.
Israel struck landmark deals last month with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, and on Friday agreed with Sudan to normalize relations under a deal brokered by the United States.
“There will be more countries,” Netanyahu said.
Saudi Arabia still has no formal ties to the Jewish state, but now allows flights into its airspace.
The rapprochement with Sudan, Netanyahu said, would offer advantages to Israelis crossing the Atlantic.
“We are now flying west, over Sudan, according to the agreements we made even before announcing normalization, (and) over Chad, with which we have also established relations, with the Brazil and South America, ”he said.
“Israel was completely isolated … Israel is now connecting to the whole world,” he added.
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