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Netanyahu: Israel as global transportation hub will link to Saudi Arabia

 
 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Sunday's cabinet meeting, July 30, 2023. (photo credit: Marc Israel Sellem/Jerusalem Post)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Sunday's cabinet meeting, July 30, 2023.
(photo credit: Marc Israel Sellem/Jerusalem Post)

The proposed plan would link India with Europe through rail, gas, and fiber optics lines that run through Israel and Saudi Arabia.

Israel is set to become a global transportation hub now that is slated to be a critical junction for an energy corridor linking Europe to India, via Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his weekly government meeting on Sunday.

“We have already turned Israel into a global hub in cyber, water, and gas. Now we will do the same in transportation, energy, and global communications,” Netanyahu said.

He spoke one day after US President Joe Biden unveiled a plan for an India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor, already dubbed IMEC.

Linking India with Europe via railway 

The plan would link India with Europe through rail, gas, and fiber optics lines that run through Israel and Saudi Arabia. The move comes as Washington and Riyadh are negotiating a new security deal that would include a normalization deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia.

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“This vision, promoted by President Biden together with European countries and the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and other countries, of an infrastructure corridor of railways, maritime connection, optical fibers, and energy lines, including gas and hydrogen (this is the future energy), which will pass from India.. through the Arabian Peninsula, through the State of Israel to Europe. It's a huge change,” Netanyahu said.

 Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman attends the 18th consultative meeting of the leaders of the GCC & the Gulf summit with the central Asian countries C5, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, July 19, 2023. (credit: SAUDI PRESS AGENCY/HANDOUT VIA REUTERS)
Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman attends the 18th consultative meeting of the leaders of the GCC & the Gulf summit with the central Asian countries C5, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, July 19, 2023. (credit: SAUDI PRESS AGENCY/HANDOUT VIA REUTERS)

“The Land of Israel has always been a crossing point for empires that ran over us as part of their conquest campaigns. 

“Now the State of Israel is becoming .. a central junction in the world economy. A bridge of peace that changes our face,” Netanyahu said.

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