Saudi Arabia And Israel Are Closer Than Ever To Normalizing Relations
For Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, normalizing relations between Riyadh and Tel Aviv would be a “betrayal of the Palestinian cause” and a “stab in the back of the Arab world”
Step by step, Israel and Saudi Arabia are eliminating the main points of disagreement and tension in their bilateral relations. According to information leaked from the UN General Assembly currently taking place in New York, at best this could be a “historic peace agreement between the Jewish state and the Saudi kingdom.” The second option could be agreements to “normalize” their relations. In any case, this will be a historical fact.
In an interview with the American Fox News channel, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman said that as for the agreement on normalizing relations with Israel, it is getting closer every day. “We hope that (the negotiations) will lead to a result that could make life easier for the Palestinians and allow Israel to play its role in the Middle East,” bin Salman emphasized.
The topic of relations between Tel Aviv and Riyadh was also raised during the summit in New York between American President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “For us, the Palestinian issue is very important. We have to solve this problem,” Biden said, emphasizing that “negotiations are going well so far.”
This news provoked a sharp negative reaction from Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, according to whom any normalization of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia would constitute a “betrayal of the Palestinian cause.”
“We believe that the relations between the countries of the region and the Zionist regime will be a stab in the back of the Palestinian people and the resistance,” Raisi said at a press conference on the sidelines of the General Assembly, answering a question about the rapprochement between Israel and Riyadh.