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#SaudiArabia: Oval Office goal. Barak Ravid is a Contributing Correspondent at Axios. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1

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🗓️ 4 August 2023

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#SaudiArabia: Oval Office goal. Barak Ravid is a Contributing Correspondent at Axios. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1

https://www.axios.com/2023/07/27/saudi-arabia-mbs-israel-normalization-biden-push
https://www.axios.com/2023/07/31/israel-mossad-cia-biden-saudi-arabia-normalization
https://www.inss.org.il/publication/saudi-arabia-normalization/


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This is CBS Eye on the World with John Batchler. Here's John Batchler. Malcolm

0:32.5

online conference of presidents, major American Jewish organizations, my

0:36.5

colleague and friend and co-host and we go immediately to Barak Ravid.

0:40.8

Correspondent contributing correspondent at Axios based in Tel Aviv for this

0:46.4

headline which is extremely promising. Biden sends Sullivan to Saudi Arabia in

0:52.7

possible push for a major Israel deal. Before we go to the Israel part, I'm

0:57.8

going to stop off at the part about US and Saudi Arabia in conversation for a

1:02.9

defense pact. Barak, a very good evening to defense pact. Did that exist in

1:08.2

the past and then it went away? Has there always been informal? What is the

1:13.0

thinking behind a defense pact today in the 21st century? Good evening to you.

1:19.2

Hi, good evening. Hi, John. Hi, Malcolm. Thank you for having me on the show.

1:24.1

I think that, you know, US Saudi relations are, you know, are nothing new.

1:31.3

It's been a historic relationship and I think that what is new is that the region is changing.

1:42.3

The region is changing. One of the these changes is that in Saudi Arabia,

1:47.6

after many years of a leadership that was, let's say, a bit older, now you have a crown prince

1:58.2

who is running the country and who's in his 30s and he's changing the country. He's changing the

2:04.6

country in many, many ways that we haven't seen, I think, maybe never. And one of the things that

2:14.0

the crown prince, Muhammad bin Salman wants to see is a change in where US Saudi relations are.

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