SANA'A January 22. 2024(Saba)- In conjunction with the peak of the Zionist-American aggression against Gaza, the United States of America returned to speaking publicly about normalization between Saudi Arabia and the Zionist enemy entity, in a move that observers see as Washington aiming to embarrass Saudi Arabia and keep it away from rapprochement with Russia.
That talk comes, according to observers, as a reaction to Saudi Arabia’s reception of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the warmth he received from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and statements that show the existence of consensus on several different issues, most notably the issue of reducing oil production and the unity of OPEC+’s position on that. .
It seems clear that Biden administration is disturbed by Saudi Arabia’s reception of the Russian President, despite the International Criminal Court issuing an arrest warrant against him, so it sought to respond to the step by embarrassing Saudi Arabia by raising the issue of normalization with the Zionist entity, which will make it a target for criticism in the Arab street.
In this context, Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud recently stated that his country is open to normalizing relations with the Zionist entity only if there is an irreversible process of establishing a Palestinian state, and that his country will not be able to normalize its relations with the Zionist entity until it is reached to a long-term solution to the Palestinian issue.
In response to a question during an interview with CNN about the impossibility of establishing normal relations without a path that leads to a viable Palestinian state, Bin Farhan said: “This is the only profitable path for us, so (the answer) is yes, because we need stability, which we hope will be achieved by resolving the Palestinian issue.”
The Saudi minister pointed out that resolving the Palestinian issue is the key to stability and prosperity for the entire Middle East region, including the Zionist entity... stressing that “in order for the region to witness real peace ,stability, and real integration that brings economic and social benefits to all of us, including “Israel.” “It is necessary to conduct a reliable and irreversible process to establish the State of Palestine,” he said.
In response to a question during the World Economic Forum in Davos, on Tuesday, whether Saudi Arabia could agree to recognize the Zionist entity as part of a broader agreement if the Palestinian issue is resolved, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan said: “Certainly.”
The Saudi ambassador to Britain, Prince Khaled bin Bandar, confirmed in an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) last week that the Kingdom is interested in normalizing relations with the Zionist entity after the war in Gaza, but any agreement must lead to the establishment of a Palestinian state.
The Saudi ambassador said: “There is definitely interest in normalizing relations. There has been interest since 1982.”
In late September, the Saudi Crown Prince said in an American television interview: “We are getting closer every day” to reaching an agreement... stressing that the Palestinian issue is “very important” and that any agreement must “facilitate the lives of the Palestinians,” but he did not announce that this It will depend on progress in establishing an independent Palestinian state.
In turn, Saudi writer and analyst Ali Al-Shihabi told CNN: “The Saudi government is still open to normalization on the condition that Israel takes concrete steps on the ground to lay the foundations for a two-state solution. This would be, for example, removing the blockad completely withdrawing from Gaza, fully empowering the Palestinian Authority in Gaza and the West Bank, withdrawing from key areas in the West Bank, etc."
Al-Shihabi added: The steps must be “concrete promises, not empty promises that Israel can forget after normalization, as it did with other countries that normalized (with Israel).”
These statements issued by Saudi Arabia were preceded by US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken’s confirmation to the usurping entity’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the military cabinet that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will not accept the deal to normalize relations in isolation from the two-state solution.
Meanwhile, US energy envoy Amos Hochstein said Thursday: He does not believe that the hope of normalizing relations between Saudi Arabia , the Zionist entity should be abandoned, and that the matter remains a goal for the United States despite the ongoing war in Gaza.
Hochstein added: "I do not think that we are changing our directions, and I do not think that this conflict should do that. In fact, this conflict should serve as a reminder to us that if we do not move towards regional integration, peace and security, then this is the alternative."
The Director General of the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, Dr. Azmi Bishara, in an exclusive interview with Al-Arabi TV on Sunday evening, put the resumption of America’s proposal of the Palestinian state for verbal discussion, in the category of justification for a return to normalization with Arab countries.
While he saw that America considers the Hamas movement an obstacle to its arrangements for the region.
Bishara recalled that Biden had previously said publicly that his country was close to achieving Saudi-Zionist normalization, and that Hamas, through the October 7 operation, thwarted that.
The Arab thinker noted that Biden did not conclude from that it is impossible to achieve normalization without resolving the Palestinian issue, but rather he concluded that the solution is to eliminate “Hamas.”
Bishara warned against the Arabs accepting an American promise or a Zionist pledge to accept a Palestinian state as a sufficient condition for normalization, describing this as “it would be the greatest waste of all the sacrifices of the Palestinians.”
He advised that Arab officials remember that all the unprecedented disasters that destroyed the Palestinians and their cause occurred after the wave of normalization (in 2020, or what is known as the Abrahamic Agreements).
Bishara expressed his confidence that the sacrifices made by the Palestinians and the resistance could have been translated into a tremendous political achievement if there had been a balanced Arab party carrying them.
Observers believe that the tension between Saudi Arabia and America may go back to what bilateral relations experienced after President Joe Biden took office in the White House and took a hard-line stance towards Saudi Arabia by reviving the case of the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi... noting that Saudi Arabia puts its interests first, and that the issue Normalization will be postponed until after the war in Gaza stops and discussions of a political solution begin.
It is noteworthy that Saudi Arabia dealt with normalization as a bartering card with the Americans, which makes a retreat from it expected by Riyadh.. Until the seventh of last October, the Zionist and Saudi leaders were saying: They are moving with firm steps towards an agreement that could have reshaped the Middle East.
America and its ally, the Zionist enemy, oppose the ceasefire in Gaza because they believe that it will only benefit Hamas. Instead, Washington supports temporary truces to protect civilians and allow the release of hostages held by Hamas during the attack.
Just weeks before Hamas launched its attack on the usurping entity on October 7, Saudi Arabia said: It is close to normalizing diplomatic relations with the Zionist entity, and despite the three months of war that left more than 25,000 Palestinian martyrs and sparked the anger of the Arab world, Riyadh points out Until recognition of the Zionist entity may be on the table.
In another round of American shuttle diplomacy across the Middle East, including the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Zionist enemy entity, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said last week: Normalization talks are ongoing and “there is a clear interest in the region in pursuing this.”
Experts say that the price that Saudi Arabia will demand in exchange for normalization will be higher now than it was before the Gaza War, as Riyadh may feel forced to extract more concessions from the United States and the Zionist entity, according to its claim.
Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Zionist officials repeatedly rejected the possibility of establishing a Palestinian state. Last month, US President Joe Biden said: The Zionist government “does not want a two-state solution.”
In 2020, four Arab countries - the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan - recognized the Zionist enemy entity under a set of treaties known as Abraham Accords, bypassing the long-term Arab demand for the establishment of a Palestinian state.
Since then, the Biden administration has been working to get Saudi Arabia, widely seen as the leader of the Islamic world, to follow suit, a move that could have opened the door for other Muslim countries to recognize the usurping enemy entity.
A poll conducted by Washington Institute for Near East Policy, from November 14 to December 6, showed that 96 percent of the 1,000 Saudis surveyed said they believed that “the Arab countries should cut off all diplomatic, political, economic, and any contacts.” With the Zionist entity immediately" in protest against the military operations carried out in Gaza.
It is worth noting that Saudi-Zionist normalization has become one of the main goals of American policy in the Middle East. Biden, who promised during his presidential campaign to turn Saudi Arabia into a “pariah” due to the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey, put aside his differences with Mohammed bin Salman during the past two years when Riyadh has expressed its willingness to embrace the Zionist entity.. For the Biden administration, brokering a normalization agreement between the Zionist entity and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia would be a major foreign policy victory before the presidential elections this year.
Despite all these data, Sebastian Sons, an expert on Middle East issues at the Germany-based Center for Applied Research in Partnership with the East, known by the acronym “Carbo,” does not believe that Saudi Arabia and the Zionist entity are likely to sign a treaty in the near future.
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That talk comes, according to observers, as a reaction to Saudi Arabia’s reception of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the warmth he received from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and statements that show the existence of consensus on several different issues, most notably the issue of reducing oil production and the unity of OPEC+’s position on that. .
It seems clear that Biden administration is disturbed by Saudi Arabia’s reception of the Russian President, despite the International Criminal Court issuing an arrest warrant against him, so it sought to respond to the step by embarrassing Saudi Arabia by raising the issue of normalization with the Zionist entity, which will make it a target for criticism in the Arab street.
In this context, Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud recently stated that his country is open to normalizing relations with the Zionist entity only if there is an irreversible process of establishing a Palestinian state, and that his country will not be able to normalize its relations with the Zionist entity until it is reached to a long-term solution to the Palestinian issue.
In response to a question during an interview with CNN about the impossibility of establishing normal relations without a path that leads to a viable Palestinian state, Bin Farhan said: “This is the only profitable path for us, so (the answer) is yes, because we need stability, which we hope will be achieved by resolving the Palestinian issue.”
The Saudi minister pointed out that resolving the Palestinian issue is the key to stability and prosperity for the entire Middle East region, including the Zionist entity... stressing that “in order for the region to witness real peace ,stability, and real integration that brings economic and social benefits to all of us, including “Israel.” “It is necessary to conduct a reliable and irreversible process to establish the State of Palestine,” he said.
In response to a question during the World Economic Forum in Davos, on Tuesday, whether Saudi Arabia could agree to recognize the Zionist entity as part of a broader agreement if the Palestinian issue is resolved, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan said: “Certainly.”
The Saudi ambassador to Britain, Prince Khaled bin Bandar, confirmed in an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) last week that the Kingdom is interested in normalizing relations with the Zionist entity after the war in Gaza, but any agreement must lead to the establishment of a Palestinian state.
The Saudi ambassador said: “There is definitely interest in normalizing relations. There has been interest since 1982.”
In late September, the Saudi Crown Prince said in an American television interview: “We are getting closer every day” to reaching an agreement... stressing that the Palestinian issue is “very important” and that any agreement must “facilitate the lives of the Palestinians,” but he did not announce that this It will depend on progress in establishing an independent Palestinian state.
In turn, Saudi writer and analyst Ali Al-Shihabi told CNN: “The Saudi government is still open to normalization on the condition that Israel takes concrete steps on the ground to lay the foundations for a two-state solution. This would be, for example, removing the blockad completely withdrawing from Gaza, fully empowering the Palestinian Authority in Gaza and the West Bank, withdrawing from key areas in the West Bank, etc."
Al-Shihabi added: The steps must be “concrete promises, not empty promises that Israel can forget after normalization, as it did with other countries that normalized (with Israel).”
These statements issued by Saudi Arabia were preceded by US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken’s confirmation to the usurping entity’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the military cabinet that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will not accept the deal to normalize relations in isolation from the two-state solution.
Meanwhile, US energy envoy Amos Hochstein said Thursday: He does not believe that the hope of normalizing relations between Saudi Arabia , the Zionist entity should be abandoned, and that the matter remains a goal for the United States despite the ongoing war in Gaza.
Hochstein added: "I do not think that we are changing our directions, and I do not think that this conflict should do that. In fact, this conflict should serve as a reminder to us that if we do not move towards regional integration, peace and security, then this is the alternative."
The Director General of the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, Dr. Azmi Bishara, in an exclusive interview with Al-Arabi TV on Sunday evening, put the resumption of America’s proposal of the Palestinian state for verbal discussion, in the category of justification for a return to normalization with Arab countries.
While he saw that America considers the Hamas movement an obstacle to its arrangements for the region.
Bishara recalled that Biden had previously said publicly that his country was close to achieving Saudi-Zionist normalization, and that Hamas, through the October 7 operation, thwarted that.
The Arab thinker noted that Biden did not conclude from that it is impossible to achieve normalization without resolving the Palestinian issue, but rather he concluded that the solution is to eliminate “Hamas.”
Bishara warned against the Arabs accepting an American promise or a Zionist pledge to accept a Palestinian state as a sufficient condition for normalization, describing this as “it would be the greatest waste of all the sacrifices of the Palestinians.”
He advised that Arab officials remember that all the unprecedented disasters that destroyed the Palestinians and their cause occurred after the wave of normalization (in 2020, or what is known as the Abrahamic Agreements).
Bishara expressed his confidence that the sacrifices made by the Palestinians and the resistance could have been translated into a tremendous political achievement if there had been a balanced Arab party carrying them.
Observers believe that the tension between Saudi Arabia and America may go back to what bilateral relations experienced after President Joe Biden took office in the White House and took a hard-line stance towards Saudi Arabia by reviving the case of the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi... noting that Saudi Arabia puts its interests first, and that the issue Normalization will be postponed until after the war in Gaza stops and discussions of a political solution begin.
It is noteworthy that Saudi Arabia dealt with normalization as a bartering card with the Americans, which makes a retreat from it expected by Riyadh.. Until the seventh of last October, the Zionist and Saudi leaders were saying: They are moving with firm steps towards an agreement that could have reshaped the Middle East.
America and its ally, the Zionist enemy, oppose the ceasefire in Gaza because they believe that it will only benefit Hamas. Instead, Washington supports temporary truces to protect civilians and allow the release of hostages held by Hamas during the attack.
Just weeks before Hamas launched its attack on the usurping entity on October 7, Saudi Arabia said: It is close to normalizing diplomatic relations with the Zionist entity, and despite the three months of war that left more than 25,000 Palestinian martyrs and sparked the anger of the Arab world, Riyadh points out Until recognition of the Zionist entity may be on the table.
In another round of American shuttle diplomacy across the Middle East, including the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Zionist enemy entity, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said last week: Normalization talks are ongoing and “there is a clear interest in the region in pursuing this.”
Experts say that the price that Saudi Arabia will demand in exchange for normalization will be higher now than it was before the Gaza War, as Riyadh may feel forced to extract more concessions from the United States and the Zionist entity, according to its claim.
Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Zionist officials repeatedly rejected the possibility of establishing a Palestinian state. Last month, US President Joe Biden said: The Zionist government “does not want a two-state solution.”
In 2020, four Arab countries - the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan - recognized the Zionist enemy entity under a set of treaties known as Abraham Accords, bypassing the long-term Arab demand for the establishment of a Palestinian state.
Since then, the Biden administration has been working to get Saudi Arabia, widely seen as the leader of the Islamic world, to follow suit, a move that could have opened the door for other Muslim countries to recognize the usurping enemy entity.
A poll conducted by Washington Institute for Near East Policy, from November 14 to December 6, showed that 96 percent of the 1,000 Saudis surveyed said they believed that “the Arab countries should cut off all diplomatic, political, economic, and any contacts.” With the Zionist entity immediately" in protest against the military operations carried out in Gaza.
It is worth noting that Saudi-Zionist normalization has become one of the main goals of American policy in the Middle East. Biden, who promised during his presidential campaign to turn Saudi Arabia into a “pariah” due to the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey, put aside his differences with Mohammed bin Salman during the past two years when Riyadh has expressed its willingness to embrace the Zionist entity.. For the Biden administration, brokering a normalization agreement between the Zionist entity and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia would be a major foreign policy victory before the presidential elections this year.
Despite all these data, Sebastian Sons, an expert on Middle East issues at the Germany-based Center for Applied Research in Partnership with the East, known by the acronym “Carbo,” does not believe that Saudi Arabia and the Zionist entity are likely to sign a treaty in the near future.
J.A
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