Tag: Israel-Saudi Relations
As US arms sales to Riyadh resume, senators say hope for Israeli-Saudi relations
Earlier this month, the U.S. State Department announced that it had lifted a ban on selling certain weapons to Saudi Arabia.
The Biden administration “always made clear that the freeze on certain classes of weapons...
Report: Saudi Arabia has decided to normalize relations with Israel
Saudi Arabia has decided to normalize relations with Israel and is debating the timing of the announcement, a foreign diplomat familiar with the details told Haaretz on Monday.
According to the source cited in the article by...
Blinken discussed US-Saudi-Israel deal during Jeddah visit
During U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, he discussed with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman the American-Saudi component of a larger plan that would see Riyadh recognize Israel.
A...
More than half of Israelis oppose Palestinian state for Saudi ties
More than half of the Israeli public opposes the creation of a Palestinian state as part of a deal that would end the war against Hamas and normalize relations between Jerusalem and Riyadh, according...
Hamas official: Oct. 7 was a scaled-down model of final war of liberation
On Jan. 16, 2024, 100 days after Hamas' Oct. 7 terror attack, Bassem Na'im, a member of the terror group's political bureau and formerly a health minister in the Hamas government, published an article...
Biden’s Middle East diplomacy is about Michigan
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is back in the Middle East for yet another round of meetings. The point of it is, as with his previous trips since Hamas launched a war against Israel on...
US still wants Israel-Saudi normalization, top envoy says
Washington still hopes Israel and Saudi Arabia will normalize relations, despite the ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza, a top Biden administration official said on Thursday.
"I think that not every road is a straight...
In historic first, Israeli minister delivers speech in Riyadh
Israeli Minister of Communications Shlomo Karhi spoke at a conference in Saudi Arabia's capital on Wednesday, marking the first speech by an Israeli minister in the country.
"As demonstrated by the Abraham Accords, when nations...
Gantz meets with Biden officials amid Saudi normalization talk
Israel's National Unity Party leader Benny Gantz paid a visit to Washington, D.C., this week for meetings with top Biden administration officials, the opposition politician revealed on Thursday.
In a post on X (formerly Twitter),...
Trump envoy upbeat on Saudi deal, says Riyadh worried by Israeli domestic strife
Former President Donald Trump's special Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt was invited to the Saudi Embassy in Washington last week to celebrate the kingdom's national day.
"I wore my kippah proudly, and I was warmly welcomed and...