Jeremy Bash: Trump Administration Is ‘Going to Be All for’ Saudi-Israeli-U.S. Peace Deal

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CAPEHART: “So Jeremy since I started, I focused intently on President Carter’s international legacy. I’m going to begin with you because this connection between this Camp David Accords and what was believed to about to happen between Israel and Saudi Arabia, you put that connection to me just over the weekend. Talk about how the Camp David Accords was the template for what could have been with Saudi Arabia.”
BASH: “What President Carter brokered in the late 1970s wasn’t just a peace deal between Israel and Egypt, its sworn enemy, it was actually a three-way deal in which the United States also played an integral role guaranteeing military and economic assistance for these two important partners in the region. It was really a three-way deal, Jonathan. And that’s exactly what the Biden Administration was working intensively on throughout 2022 and 2023, a new three-way deal between Saudi Arabia, Israel, and the United States. And in that three-way deal again the United States would have to provide security guarantees, a long-term security umbrella for Israel, but also importantly a long-term security guarantee for Saudi Arabia. Now, you referenced in your setup that after October 7th, the prospects for such a deal really appear very dim, but I actually think that President Carter’s legacy of Arab-Israeli peacebuilding is going to come to fruition. I expect that in 2025 and maybe even in the next few months I look forward to seeing potentially the resurrection of this three-way peace opportunity between the United States and Saudi Arabia and Israel even if there’s not a ceasefire in Gaza.”
CAPEHART: “And even if there’s a change in administration?”
BASH: “I do because I think that with the Trump Administration creating the Abraham Accords, the peace agreements between Israel and some of the other Gulf Arab countries, including the United Arab Emirates, and this three-way Saudi-Israeli- U.S. deal would really build on the Abraham Accords. I think the Trump Administration is going to be all for it in the same the Biden Administration was all for it. It’s a bipartisan issue.”