ALGEMEINER
by Staff
August 23, 2015

Anwar Eshki, a retired major general in the Saudi armed forces, has made it his personal goal to strike peace between Saudi Arabia and Israel, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. A former top adviser to the Saudi government, Eshki raised eyebrows in June when he appeared alongside Israeli Foreign Ministry Director-General and longtime confidant of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Dore Gold at a conference held by the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington DC, espousing desires to build a Saudi-Israel peace, especially to counter the regionally destabilizing expansion of Iran. “The main project between me and Dore Gold is to bring peace between Arab countries and Israel,” said Eshki. The former general noted that while the initiative is “personal,” Riyadh “knows about the project” and “isn’t against it, because we need peace.” READ MORE