Two radio stations in Israel initially reported Netanyahu had secretly flown to Saudi Arabia for talks with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

以色列兩家電臺最初報道，內塔尼亞胡祕密飛往沙特阿拉伯，與王儲穆罕默德-本-薩勒曼就美國國務卿邁克-蓬佩奧舉行會談。

When asked about the meeting itself on Monday, Netanyahu wasn't willing to give away specifics.

當週一被問及會議本身時，內塔尼亞胡並不願意透露具體細節。

Are you serious friends?

你們是認真的朋友嗎？

Throughout my years, I've never commented on such things and I don't intend to start doing so now.

這麼多年來，我從來沒有對這種事情發表過意見，現在也不打算開始這樣做。

I can only tell you that, really.

我只能告訴你，真的。

Throughout my years as prime minister, I didn't spare any effort to strengthen the state of Israel and to expand the circle of peace on thank God we managed to do it with our neighbors with the Emirates, with Bahrain with Sudan on, I hope the circle will always expand.

在我擔任總理的這些年裡，我一直在不遺餘力地加強以色列國，擴大和平圈，感謝上帝，我們成功地與我們的鄰國阿聯酋、巴林和蘇丹一起做到了這一點，我希望這個圈子將永遠擴大。

And Saudi Arabia's foreign minister added some further mystery by denying reports that a meeting even took place.

而沙特外長又增加了一些神祕感，否認了甚至發生了會面的報道。

Pompeo has been leaning on Saudi Arabia to follow the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain on established formal relations with Israel.

蓬佩奧一直傾向於沙特跟隨阿聯酋和巴林與以色列建立正式關係。

The reconciliation between Israel and the Gulf states is largely built on a shared concern about Iran are potentially whether US President elect Joe Biden will wind back Washington's regional policies.

以色列和海灣國家之間的和解主要是建立在對伊朗的共同關注上，是潛在的美國當選總統喬-拜登是否會收斂華盛頓的地區政策。