An interview between The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg and Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, published yesterday, contains several firsts – not the least of which is the first public acknowledgment by an Arab leader that “the Jewish people [have a right] to have a nation-state of their own next to a Palestinian state.”

According to Goldberg, bin Salman “did not have a bad word to say” about Israel, his known ally, and expressed fair and even-handed opinions about both Israel and Jews.

To the question of whether “the Jewish people have a right to a nation-state in at least part of their ancestral homeland,” Bin Salman responded “I believe that each people, anywhere, has a right to live in their peaceful nation. I believe the Palestinians and the Israelis have the right to have their own land.”