Saudi Arabia envisioned an ambitious defense Washington in exchange for the normalization of relations with Israel. Now Riyadh is relying on a more modest agreement on military cooperation.
RBC-Ukraine reports this via correspondence to Reuters.
Trying to negotiate a large-scale mutual security agreement for the first time, Riyadh has softened its position in order to recognize Palestinian sovereignty. The government of the country informed Washington that in order to normalize the waters of the kingdom of the Persian inlet, Israel's public attention would be enough until a decision was made to create two powers at the entrance to the Jordan River.
Following the data of two Saudi and three foreign jets, on the smoldering of enormous anger in Saudi Arabia and at all times close to the military affairs of Israel in the Gaza Strip, Spadsky Prince Mohammed Bibn Salman has once again placed Israel's knowledge on the agenda for specific steps in the creation of the Palestinian state.
According to the words of recent diplomats, Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu, as and before, pragne normalization of trade with Saudi Arabia, which will give it wider recognition in the Arab world.
However, he faces a persistent opposition to any actions to the Palestinians after Hamas's invasion of the Gaza Strip on June 7, 2023 let us know that any gesture of destruction of power will lead to the split of its ruling coalition.
Partnership for Mutual Defense
With grievances among leaders still confined to their domestic security structures, Riyadh and Washington are hopeful that a more modest defense pact between the powers may be in place before President Joe Biden is leaving the White House due to the impending doom.
According to six Reuters newspapers, a full-fledged US-Saudi agreement may pass the US Senate with a majority of two-thirds of the votes, otherwise nothing will happen if Riyadh does not recognize Israel. In the spring, Bibn Salman stated that diplomatic relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia could be established after the creation of an independent Palestinian state with its capital in the same place. Jerusalem.
The benefit, which is now being discussed, transfers the expansion of military forces and training to counter regional threats, especially on the side of Iran. According to Jerel, we agree to a partnership between American and Saudi defense companies, with guarantees of avoiding spying with China.
Facilitating Saudi Arabia's investment in advanced technologies, especially for the protection of drones. The United States could increase its presence in Riyadh through military training, logistics and cybersecurity support, and could also fire up a Patriot missile battalion to strengthen missile defense and integrated streaming.
At the same time, this will not happen. a mutual defense treaty that calls for American troops to protect the world's largest oil exporter in the face of foreign attack.
“Saudi Arabia rejects the security of allowing the expansion of military production and sales of American armor, rather than a defense treaty similar to the one that was concluded with Japan or Pivdennaya “Korea, whose beginnings were destroyed,” said the head of the Gulf Research Institute think tank in Saudi Arabia, Abdelaziz al-Sagher.
The Trump factor
The situation is getting worse with the arrival of Donald Trump to the White House.
Although the newly elected president's plan for regulating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict includes some provisions about the recognition of sovereignty or the sovereignty of the Palestinian state, he is a close ally of the Saudi crown prince.
Palestinian and Arab officials are afraid that Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner – the architect of the “Place the Century” (Place on the regulation of the conflict between Israel and Palestine – ed.) and also a close ally crown prince – they can kill him with zreshta support this plan.
According to diplomats, those who like the prince to please Saudi priorities in this sparse diplomatic landscape are of utmost importance, meaning both his leadership and the future of the peace process.
Cross the path to please
The current US administration has no hope of laying down security guarantees until Biden lands in the country, otherwise the low level of security is lost. One person in Washington, familiar with the progress of the negotiations, said that there was room for skepticism as long as there was enough time to settle the deal.
According to Jerel, American officials say that the kingdom is still is attached to the formally secured guarantees that were sought, especially to deny access to a more immediate release, rather than to decide whether to earn money for Biden or to count on Trump.
“We continue discuss and talk a lot “directly on the table (with the Saudis),” said the American official.
The National Security Council of the White House had comments when asked about zusilla, directly about American security guarantees for Saudi Arabia.
Netanyahu's Office I also felt inclined to comment on Riyadh’s position in favor of Palestinian sovereignty.
The defense treaty that gives Saudi Arabia military protection to the United States in exchange for recognition Israel, changing bi Close A gathering that brought together two old enemies and linked Riyadh with Washington at a time when China is leaking into the region.
This would allow the kingdom to increase its security and pose threats to Iran and its Houthi allies in order to avoid repeated attacks on its nafta facilities in 2019, such as Riyadh and Washington they called Tehran. Iran will deny its role.
A high-ranking Saudi official said that the agreement is 95% ready, but Riyadh wants to negotiate an alternative agreement, even though it is impossible without normalization of trade Israel.
Two agency officials indicated that, regardless of the format, the agreement on the new law could be passed without passing through Congress before Biden leaves prison.
There were other stones in the negotiations to finalize the mutual defense treaty stumbling. For example, there was no progress in negotiations on civil nuclear trade, and Saudi Arabia decided to sign the so-called “Agreement 123” with the United States, which would allow Russia to acquire nuclear rights, they reported six jerels.
Saudi Arabia's ban on articles related to human rights has emerged as another area of disagreement, one Saudi Arabian official told Reuters close to negotiations.
The great “prize”
I want The Saudi Arabian government is strongly in favor of Palestinian sovereignty, according to diplomats, and it becomes insignificant how the crown prince reacts if Trump turns around to please, as he has propagated the 2020 growth for regulation Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
This plan marks a dramatic change in US and international policy, even as it stands squarely against Israel and sharply undermines the long-standing principle of “land for peace” that is historically significant. keruvav negotiations.
We must allow Israel to annex large tracts of land in the occupied West Bank, including Israeli settlements and the Jordan Valley. He also recognizes Jerusalem as “the undivided capital of Israel”, in fact, reiterating the Palestinians’ claims to Jerusalem as their capital, which is a major obstacle to their sovereign goals and consistent with the UN resolution.
While legitimizing Israeli annexations, Trump's plan is widely seen as a serious blow to the two-power solution and the Palestinians' hopes for sovereignty.
Factor of peace and stability
Saudi officials insist that the creation of the Palestinian state, which is expected to advance internationally, including Jerusalem as its capital, is deprived of important intelligence for the long-term regional peace and stability.
Without which the cycle of violence continues to be threatened, be it normal ones, they seem to stink.
“How can we recognize our own integration of the region, how are we bypassing the Palestinian food? You cannot override the law Palestinians for self-esteem,” said a high-ranking Saudi official.
In one of the most severe criticisms of Israel since the beginning of the war in the Gaza Strip, Crown Prince Mohammed spoke to the Arab and Islamic Council in Riyadh. Months calling the military actions of Israel “collective genocide.”
However, the potential for normalization of Saudi Arabia’s relations with Israel may be overshadowed by the future. It is certain that this will happen after the wars in the Gaza Strip, and also, perhaps, in other Israeli countries, diplomats seem to “get involved.”
Fawaz Gerges, a nutrition expert at the London School of Economics, said that Trump will pursue all possible avenues to ensure the historic normalization of trade between Saudi Arabia and Israel.
In his words, “for Trump, Saudi Arabia is a great prize.”
“What is the question of how normalization can happen, given the repeated pressure of Saudi leaders on the fact that the stink is unrecognizable Israel, unless there is a real path to the Palestinian state, Trump could threaten to start the fire in Gaza in exchange for normalization and the front line to support the Palestinian state, without having to do anything “Israel will do anything real to the Palestinians,” Gerges said.
It seems likely that the Government Department has allowed the withdrawal of defense contracts from Saudi Arabia and the Arab Emirates.
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