Saudi to recognize Israel if Palestinian issue resolved

Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister has hinted that the kingdom will recognize Israel if the Palestinian issue is resolved.

Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud said this at a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday.

“We agree that regional peace includes peace for Israel, but that could only happen through peace for the Palestinians through a Palestinian state,” Faisal bin Farhan said.

He said securing regional peace through the creation of a Palestinian state was “something we have been indeed working on with the U.S. administration, and it is more relevant in the context of Gaza.”

The Sunni Muslim kingdom, the most powerful country in the Arab world and home to the most sacred sites in Islam, wields considerable religious clout across the globe.