Saudi analyst Abdul Hamid al-Hakeem has defended the appearance of Saudi and Arab leaders alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a recent conference in Warsaw, asserting that Saudi normalisation of ties with Israel was no cause for embarrassment.<br /><br />The two-day US-organised Warsaw conference on "peace and security" in the Middle East was widely seen as another major step by certain Arab and Israeli leaders to achieve a normalisation of ties.<br /><br />Al-Hakeem, the former director of the Jeddah-based Middle East Center for Strategic and Legal Studies, suggested that by achieving peace with Israel, a new Middle East would be created free of the 'Iranian threat'. <br /><br />Source: RT Arabic (YouTube)<br /><br />Date: 14 February, 2019<br /><br />-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />Support us financially on Patreon: <br /><br />https://www.patreon.com/MiddleEastObs...<br /><br /><br />Subscribe - Website Mailing List: <br /><br />http://middleeastobserver.net/subscribe/<br /><br /><br />Like - Facebook page: <br /><br />https://www.facebook.com/MEO.Translat...<br /><br /><br />Follow - Twitter: <br /><br />https://twitter.com/MEO_Translation
