Egypt Daily News – Egypt condemned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s remarks that a Palestinian state could be established in Saudi Arabia, claiming that they have “vast lands”.
“Egypt condemns in the strongest terms the irresponsible and totally unacceptable statements issued by the Israeli side, which incite against the brotherly Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and call for the construction of a Palestinian state on Saudi territory in a direct violation of Saudi sovereignty and a blatant violation of the rules of international law and the United Nations Charter,” the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Saturday.
The statement emphasized Egypt’s “complete rejection of these reckless statements that affect the Kingdom’s security and sovereignty,” stressing that the security of Saudi Arabia and respect for its sovereignty is a red line that Egypt will not allow to be compromised, and its stability and national security are at the core of the security and stability of Egypt and the Arab countries.
Egypt stressed that these unbridled Israeli statements towards the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are a reprehensible transgression and a violation of all established diplomatic norms, and an infringement on the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the legitimate and inalienable rights of the Palestinian people to establish their independent state on all their national soil in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem according to the lines of June 4, 1967.
Egypt affirmed its full support for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia against these reckless statements and called on the international community to condemn and denounce them.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had said in an interview with an Israeli channel from Washington, D.C., that Saudi Arabia could establish a Palestinian state on its territory because they have “a lot of land,” in a comment on the kingdom’s adherence to the two-state solution and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital.
