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When it comes to security, Saudi Arabia has nowhere to go but to Washington,
Dorsey said
I don't think that the Saudis will take any major steps now,
said KriegIf this is going to be his policy, he shut the door on Saudi recognition of Israel,
James Dorsey, researcher at the Middle East Institute of the National University of Singapore, told AFPThey are not a US vassal state and so they're not just taking a diktat from Trump,
said Andreas Krieg of King's College LondonThe foreign ministry affirms that Saudi Arabia’s position on the establishment of a Palestinian state is firm and unwavering,
the ministry said in a statement
My vision for that day is of a demilitarized and deradicalized Gaza. Israel does not seek to resettle Gaza.”
In July the Israeli prime minister said
In Your Guts You Know He’s Nuts.”
Back in 1964, President Lyndon Johnson’s campaign mocked Republican presidential contender Barry Goldwater with the slogan
Actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart.”
Back in 2018, Trump said on what was then known as TwitterThe key question is whether Saudi Arabia will condition its deal with the US and normalisation with Israel to abandoning this plan, not just saying they support Palestinians’ right to self-determination,
Menachem Klein, professor of political science at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, told Al Jazeera
We know there is a lot of trauma with the Palestinian side when it comes to displacement. However, again, it’s too early to talk about this, because we don’t know how this war will end,
Majed al-Ansari said
I think you’ll see in the coming weeks – when Trump starts climbing down the tree, when things sober up – he’ll tell the Saudis ‘you need to come forward and stop making conditions about the Palestinian state’,
added BisharaHis Majesty King Abdullah II stresses the need to put a stop to [Israeli] settlement expansion, expressing rejection of any attempts to annex land and displace the Palestinians.”
Jordan’s royal court said in a statementThere is no country that will have greater say in what goes on in Israel and Palestine moving forward than Saudi Arabia. And there is no country that Israel wants to normalise relations with more than Saudi Arabia,
he saidThe calculus would be, ‘OK, you don’t want me to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians, you don’t want me to send American forces to kick them out and take over that piece of land? OK, I won’t do these things, but what are you going to give me in return?
he said