Channel 12 commentator on Arab affairs, Ehud Yaari, spoke today (Sunday) with Ben Caspit and Prof. Aryeh Eldad on their program on 103FM, in order to comment on the latest statements by Iran that it has the ability to produce a nuclear bomb. During the conversation, Yaari even spoke about the United States’ efforts to include Jordan in the “Abraham Accords,” despite the Jordanian veto that they would enter only if there was a Palestinian representative. Yaari said that “it’s burying a mine inside the room.”
As mentioned, the commentator did not sound particularly enthusiastic about the possibility of attaching the Palestinians to the agreements: “I am very worried. We have the Negev Forum, the Americans really want to bring in Jordan as well.” King Abdullah II says, ” “How can the Palestinians not really be members of the forum? I think to put the Palestinians in the forums of the Abrahamic agreements that they despise and strongly oppose, is to plant a mine inside the room.”
In his opening remarks, Yaari referred to Kamal Harazi’s statement that Iran could already produce a nuclear bomb. According to the journalist, this is not new information. “Harazi is not a senior adviser to Khamenei, but the chairman of the Foreign Relations Council, he is from the inner circle, he belongs to the reformist camp that is not in power today. What he said is not new things. The Iranians have repeatedly said in recent years that they know how to produce a bomb and have the capabilities, but that there is a ruling that prohibits the production of a bomb, and that they have not made the political decision. I feel the echoes of the statements, but there is no innovation in this, “he said.
Afterwards, the conversation revolved around US President Joe Biden’s visit to Israel, a visit signed last Friday with the president’s departure for Saudi Arabia: “Go like Obama, Bush Jr. or Trump. He came to do business in a decent way, to do the big and important demonstration of warm news to Israel for the Arab world and the Iranians to see, he came to Saudi Arabia and received a promise.”
According to him, if the Americans had invested in their relations with Libya, the latter could have supplied another million barrels of oil to Europe, which is suffering from a severe fuel crisis. The commentator added that the Americans “began to lay the foundations of a regional system under the American umbrella. He skipped the hurdle of his relationship with Muhammad bin Salman. There was a punch and they sat for three hours. There is normalization in US-Saudi relations, even if not great love. “.
“Going with Iran to a kind of pretense of normalization, this is not an unusual relationship of cooperation and friendship, to this kind of normalization the Arabs think they should go. With the Saudis everything goes slowly, due on the thumb side, but the direction is clear and they are moving forward. In line, no less than opening the skies to flights, “he concluded.
Assisted in the preparation of the article: Michal Kadosh, Radio 103fm