How Trump and Netanyahu forced Mohammed bin Salman to draw a line on Palestine

A covert relationship claimed by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Saudi Arabia, one that was years in the making, has been unravelling in a matter of days.

Netanyahu talked about it explicitly in an interview with Channel 14 during his visit to Washington last week.

"We had covert relations for nearly three years. On our side, apart from me, three people knew about it. On their side there were also a very small number of people who were involved in this, as was the case on the American side," Netanyahu boasted.

If true, and not another of Netanyahu’s fabrications, you can either reveal this relationship with the other side’s consent, or when it is over. The third possibility is that this statement is the act of a bully, like many others in the past week.

But the relationship between the kingdom and Israel has been as much based on personal as state ambitions. 

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