Antony Blinken

I'll do my best to take on my deep-rooted instincts of caution and sticking to talking points. Exactly.

I'll do my best to take on my deep-rooted instincts of caution and sticking to talking points. Exactly.

I'll do my best to take on my deep-rooted instincts of caution and sticking to talking points. Exactly.

Look, I think when... You look at where we were before October 7th, and I think what Jake was talking about or writing about, rightly so, were the efforts we were making, and I think making real progress on, to bring countries together, not to try to change the nature of the regimes or the systems, but to try to change the relationships among them, to integrate the region.

Look, I think when... You look at where we were before October 7th, and I think what Jake was talking about or writing about, rightly so, were the efforts we were making, and I think making real progress on, to bring countries together, not to try to change the nature of the regimes or the systems, but to try to change the relationships among them, to integrate the region.

Look, I think when... You look at where we were before October 7th, and I think what Jake was talking about or writing about, rightly so, were the efforts we were making, and I think making real progress on, to bring countries together, not to try to change the nature of the regimes or the systems, but to try to change the relationships among them, to integrate the region.

And the fact is, up until October 7th, we were making good progress on that, building on the Abraham Accords that the first Trump administration initiated, bringing disparate countries together, Everyone from, in one case, the UAE, Israel, India, and the United States on common projects.

And the fact is, up until October 7th, we were making good progress on that, building on the Abraham Accords that the first Trump administration initiated, bringing disparate countries together, Everyone from, in one case, the UAE, Israel, India, and the United States on common projects.

And the fact is, up until October 7th, we were making good progress on that, building on the Abraham Accords that the first Trump administration initiated, bringing disparate countries together, Everyone from, in one case, the UAE, Israel, India, and the United States on common projects.

working with the Abraham Accord countries to actually do things together, concrete things that would deliver results for people in each of those countries. And what we were really focused on in that moment was kind of the ultimate culmination of the Abraham Accords, and that was normalization between Saudi Arabia and between Israel. And in fact, David, on October 10th,

working with the Abraham Accord countries to actually do things together, concrete things that would deliver results for people in each of those countries. And what we were really focused on in that moment was kind of the ultimate culmination of the Abraham Accords, and that was normalization between Saudi Arabia and between Israel. And in fact, David, on October 10th,

working with the Abraham Accord countries to actually do things together, concrete things that would deliver results for people in each of those countries. And what we were really focused on in that moment was kind of the ultimate culmination of the Abraham Accords, and that was normalization between Saudi Arabia and between Israel. And in fact, David, on October 10th,

I was scheduled to go to Saudi Arabia and Israel to try to work on resolving some of the remaining issues on that.

I was scheduled to go to Saudi Arabia and Israel to try to work on resolving some of the remaining issues on that.

I was scheduled to go to Saudi Arabia and Israel to try to work on resolving some of the remaining issues on that.

Yeah, that's exactly right. Actually, that's exactly what I was going to the region to focus on in the context of normalization between Saudi Arabia and Israel. We knew that for us and also for the Saudis, getting to normalization required also having a credible pathway toward a Palestinian state. We saw it as essential, not just a normalization.

Yeah, that's exactly right. Actually, that's exactly what I was going to the region to focus on in the context of normalization between Saudi Arabia and Israel. We knew that for us and also for the Saudis, getting to normalization required also having a credible pathway toward a Palestinian state. We saw it as essential, not just a normalization.

Yeah, that's exactly right. Actually, that's exactly what I was going to the region to focus on in the context of normalization between Saudi Arabia and Israel. We knew that for us and also for the Saudis, getting to normalization required also having a credible pathway toward a Palestinian state. We saw it as essential, not just a normalization.

This was and remains an incredibly important question because even as we speak today, even with everything that's happened since October 7th, I believe that there is a possibility, an opportunity to actually move forward on integration, to move forward on normalization, but it requires two things. It requires an end to Gaza, And it requires a credible pathway to a Palestinian state.

This was and remains an incredibly important question because even as we speak today, even with everything that's happened since October 7th, I believe that there is a possibility, an opportunity to actually move forward on integration, to move forward on normalization, but it requires two things. It requires an end to Gaza, And it requires a credible pathway to a Palestinian state.