T. Belman. I repeat, nothing is going to happen regarding normalizaton with SA until Jordan is recognized as the Palestinian state. This will not happen until Abdullah abdicates and Mudar Zahran becomes President of Jordan. You don’t have to believe me. Time will tell.
I fully support Smotrich and Ben Gvir. Remember, neither SA or the US is doing Israel a favour by pushing for normalization. SA is leveraging it to get what it can from the US e.g. nuclear plant and defense pact. The US is leveraging it to get progress toward a TSS. Israel, on the other hand, just wants normalization.
The US is telling the Saudis that in order for the US to give them what they want, the US must get what it wants form the Israelis and that SA must apply pressure on Israel to make concessions. That’s what is going on. The news is totally focussed on the Palestinian issue which is a minor issue, rather than whether the US should give the Saudis a nuclear plant or a Defense Pact. Strange, don’t you think?
Saudi-owned site says hardline government’s refusal to make any concessions to Palestinians at heart of Riyadh’s decision to pull away; Israel said ‘confused’
By TOI STAFF Today,
File: Benjamin Netanyahu (right) during a Likud party meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on December 13, 2021; Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (left) speaks during the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, December 14, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90; Bandar Aljaloud/Saudi Royal Palace via AP)
Saudi Arabia has reportedly told the Biden administration that it intends to freeze US-brokered normalization talks with Israel because Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hardline government is unwilling to make any concessions to the Palestinians.
According to the report Sunday in the Saudi-owned Elaph newspaper, citing officials in Netanyahu’s office, the US has informed Israel of the Saudi stance.
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