Netanyahu offers to suspend annexation plans in exchange for peace with Riyadh

Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu would suspend plans to annex parts of Judea and Samaria, commonly known as the West Bank in exchange for the normalization of relations with Saudi Arabia, according to a report over the weekend. Talks are underway between Israel, the United States and Saudi Arabia to this end, Yediot Aharonot reported. Netanyahu said he hopes to welcome Saudi Arabia into the circle of countries that have joined the Abraham Accords. “I hope to bring about a full, formal peace as we’ve done with the other Gulf states like Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates,” he said during…