The reason the Gulf States turned to Israel was that they saw in 2015 after a very difficult decision I made to go to the Joint session of Congress and speak out against the impending nuclear deal which I thought would threaten the existence of Israel.
I got phone calls from Gulf leaders while I was speaking, my delegation received phone calls from them and they basically wanted to have secret meetings at that point because they said we're terrified of Iran, to and if you Israel is willing to stand up to Iran then we want to be your partners.
Everybody said: 'First you have to make peace with the Palestinians and then you'll get peace with the Arab world - so the 1% was wagging the 99% of the Arab world.
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