Saudi Arabia will not sign a normalization agreement with Israel unless progress is made on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict despite recent progress in advancing ties between Riyadh and Jerusalem, Saudi daily newspaper Elaph claimed on Saturday.
The report comes nearly two months after revelations about a secret meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the city of Neom in Saudi Arabia.
According to the newspaper, which quotes a senior Israeli official on condition of anonymity, attempts to portray Israeli-Saudi normalization as an imminent development is likely motivated by personal or political considerations.
The outlet added that relations between the Jewish state and Riyadh have changed and the Saudis ties to Jerusalem have significantly deteriorated over the last several weeks.
It remains unclear how relations broke-down between the two regional powers, but President Donald Trump’s recent loss in the US 2020 election could be a contributing factor.
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LOL
I wonder it the conditions for “normalization” included attacking Iran on their behalf and breaking relations with Jordan
“It remains unclear how relations broke-down between the two regional powers, but President Donald Trump’s recent loss in the US 2020 election could be a contributing factor.”
No kidding.
Saudi Arabia is one of the most pragmatic, diplomatically astute and selfish regimes in the world. They had the entire world eating out of their hands with the so-called “desk-drawer peace plan” that probably never even existed several years ago. Had President Trump been reelected, they’d probably have signed a peace deal with Israel amid great pomp and circumstance, to the adulation of most of the world. Now that Biden is the President-elect, they feel it to their advantage not to sign such a deal, so they’re backing out. Of course we can expect Israel to receive all the blame for the perfidious Saudis reversal.