At the United Nations Summit in New York on Wednesday, President Joe Biden met with Israeli

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and made this bold declaration.

75 years ago, the first Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurian, after declaring independence,

used the phrase that I've quote-lawed very often.

He said that the world stands in Israel to the dream of generations will be fulfilled.

75 years ago, that dream was the founding of the Israeli state, following the devastation

of the Holocaust and World War II.

Biden's dream looked forward to a possible new alignment of powers in the Middle East,

quite different today than it was in 1948.

It includes building a more stable and prosperous Middle East that, over time, is beginning to

occur and through historic initiatives that have begun in previous administrations,

including, most recently, the Indian Middle East European Economic Carter, which I think

has an enormous promise after the G20 meeting in India, which is going to kick India and

Europe through Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Israel.

I think it's a big deal, and we're working on a lot more together today.

We're going to discuss some of the hard issues.

Now among the nations mentioned by Biden, one in particular stands out in the eyes of Israel,

his Benjamin Netanyahu.

I think that under your leadership, Mr. President, we can forge a historic peace between Israel

and Saudi Arabia.

And I think such a peace would go a long way first to advance the end of the Arab-Israeli

conflict, achieve reconciliation between the Islamic world and the Jewish state, and

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