Lieberman: Israel holds clandestine talks with Arab countries

[Jefferson23]

* Interesting considering that Obama intends to make a deal with Iran.

Foreign minister says talks with Saudi Arabia and Kuwait held in attempt to establish diplomatic ties based on common fear from Iran.

Reuters, Yuval Karni
Published: 04.14.14, 16:28

Israel is holding secret talks with some Arab states that do not recognise it, looking to establish diplomatic ties based on a common fear of Iran, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman told Yedioth Ahronot in an interview published on Monday.

Amongst the countries he was in contact with were Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, Lieberman said - the first such disclosure by a senior Israeli official.

The two nations swiftly denied the existence of any talks with Israel.

Both these states, along with most other Arab nations, have traditionally been highly hostile towards Israel, which has only signed peace deals with two neighbours - Egypt and Jordan.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4510125,00.html

[aranthus]

1. Obviously not anymore.

If they were having secret talks with anyone then he wouldn't have mentioned it. Okay, it's Lieberman so who knows, but anyone knows that the first rule of secret talks is don't talk about them.

[Scootaloo]

2. In cases like this, "secret" doesn't actually mean "secret"

It means "officially denied / unmentioned" sort of like Israel's nuclear stockpile is "secret," or how everything the CIA does is "secret."