{"id":1556182,"date":"2022-07-15T11:00:10","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1556182"},"modified":"2022-07-15T11:04:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T15:04:42","slug":"biden-touts-saudi-arabia-opening-airspace-for-israel-as-step-towards-normalizing-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-touts-saudi-arabia-opening-airspace-for-israel-as-step-towards-normalizing-relations\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Touts Saudi Arabia Opening Airspace For Israel As Step Towards Normalizing Relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-touts-saudi-arabia-opening-airspace-for-israel-as-step-towards-normalizing-relations%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1556182&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Joe Biden welcomed Saudi Arabia opening up its airspace to allow Israeli airlines and suggested the move will \u201chelp build momentum\u201d in improving relations between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia\u2019s decision, which came just ahead of Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/13\/crisis-nuclear-biden-middle-east-trip\/\">trip<\/a> to the country from <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/13\/biden-gaffes-in-israel-holocaust\/\">Israel<\/a>, is the first time in history that Israeli airlines will have free rein to travel between the two countries using Saudi\u2019s airspace. As a result, Biden noted that he would be \u201cthe first president of the United States to fly from Israel to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSaudi Arabia\u2019s historic decision to open its airspace for all civilian planes, including those flying to and from Israel, is an important step towards building a more integrated and stable Middle East region,\u201d the president said Friday in a statement ahead of his travels. \u201cWhile this opening has long been discussed, now, thanks to months of steady diplomacy between my administration and Saudi Arabia, it is finally a reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7475436\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7475436\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7475436\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2022-07-15T111758Z_166949872_RC2ACV9JQ2CS_RTRMADP_3_USA-PALESTINIANS-BIDEN-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2022-07-15T111758Z_166949872_RC2ACV9JQ2CS_RTRMADP_3_USA-PALESTINIANS-BIDEN-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2022-07-15T111758Z_166949872_RC2ACV9JQ2CS_RTRMADP_3_USA-PALESTINIANS-BIDEN-174x120.jpg 174w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2022-07-15T111758Z_166949872_RC2ACV9JQ2CS_RTRMADP_3_USA-PALESTINIANS-BIDEN-620x427-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2022-07-15T111758Z_166949872_RC2ACV9JQ2CS_RTRMADP_3_USA-PALESTINIANS-BIDEN-768x529-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2022-07-15T111758Z_166949872_RC2ACV9JQ2CS_RTRMADP_3_USA-PALESTINIANS-BIDEN-1536x1059-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2022-07-15T111758Z_166949872_RC2ACV9JQ2CS_RTRMADP_3_USA-PALESTINIANS-BIDEN-2048x1412-1.jpg 2048w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7475436\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. President Joe Biden visits the Church of Nativity, in Bethlehem, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank July 15, 2022. REUTERS\/Evelyn Hockstein<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cAs we mark this important moment, Saudi Arabia\u2019s decision can help build momentum toward Israel\u2019s further integration into the region, including with Saudi Arabia. I will do all that I can, through direct diplomacy and leader-to-leader engagement, to keep advancing this groundbreaking process,\u201d Biden added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/14\/israel-resolve-maritime-dispute-rival-iran-backed-terrorists-threaten-war\/\">Israeli<\/a> Prime Minister Yair Lapid also touted the decision, saying it was \u201ca first step\u201d towards normalizing relations, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/israel-lauds-saudi-decision-to-open-skies-as-first-step-toward-normalization\/\">according<\/a> to The Times of Israel. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/13\/biden-calls-out-anti-israel-wing-of-democratic-party\/\">(RELATED:\u00a0\u2018No Apologies\u2019: Biden Calls Out Anti-Israel Wing Of Democratic Party)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan suggested the deal marked the culmination of a months-long negotiation with Saudi Arabia by the Biden administration. The administration had been working behind the scenes to mediate a deal between Saudi Arabia, Israel and Egypt regarding islands and airspace, Axios <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/05\/23\/saudi-arabia-egypt-israel-red-sea-islands\">reported<\/a> back in May.<\/p>\n<p>Biden lands in Saudi Arabia on Friday and has meetings scheduled with King Salman bin Abdulaziz al Saud and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden is traveling to the Middle East<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1556182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1556182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1556182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1556182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1556182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}