Report: Saudi Arabia taking another step toward agreement with Israel

Saudi officials told the Wall Street Journal that the kingdom has proposed renewing financial support to the Palestinian Authority - 'a sign of Riyadh's effort to overcome obstacles and establish official relations with Israel'; Saudi Arabia hopes to gain the support of Mahmoud Abbas, which will give an agreement wider legitimacy
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Saudi officials and former Palestinian officials say that the kingdom is proposing to renew financial support for the Palestinian Authority, which they say is "a sign of the Saudi effort to overcome obstacles and establish diplomatic relations with Israel," according to a report in the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday evening.
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The Saudi officials said that they are trying to secure the support of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for establishing diplomatic relations with Israel, which will give wider legitimacy to any agreement – and avoid accusations against Riyadh that it is sacrificing the idea of a Palestinian state in order to advance its goals. Recognition of Israel is particularly sensitive for Saudi Arabia because the holiest sites in Islam are within its borders, which gives it a special status in the Muslim world.
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To advance its interests, the sources say, the Palestinian Authority will send a senior delegation to Saudi Arabia next week to discuss what the kingdom can do in talks with Israel to promote and facilitate the establishment of a future Palestinian state.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman first brought up the idea of renewing financial support in a meeting with Abbas in Saudi Arabia in April, according to Saudi and Palestinian sources. According to the report, the crown prince made a pledge to the PA president that if he succeeds in reasserting his authority over security in the Palestinian areas of the West Bank, the kingdom will eventually renew its funding to the authority and Saudi Arabia will not accept any agreement with Israel that would undermine the efforts to establish an independent Palestinian state.
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Nothing is going to happen
MBS and Saudi Leadership hate Biden. They're not going to deal with anything, unless Biden is completely giving everything MBS wants on the american side. Now, self hating "Jews" like Blinken and Hotstein, want to use this opportunity to force Israel to surrender to the Pals - even though the Saudi's don't care about them- hence why they are inviting Lapid all the time to the US/EU capitals for 'consultations" If they got him to surrender to Lebanon in his couple weeks in the PM seat, imagine the catastrophe he would inflict were he in the chair for any term. Unfortunately, nothing will really happen until after the election. It would be a great opportunity economically, if Israel is able to get the Saudi's in the Abraham accords. Just getting a rail link to Eilat/Haifa/Ashkelon harbors to ship oil and product from UAE, would bring in thousands of jobs and billions in transit fees.
Elan| 08.30.23
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Limited Autonomy
All emails are monitored by Nazis inside the State here in The UK. These Nazis are attempting an Anti Semitic bridgehead into the USA and working to destroy Israel using The Palestinian Issue. This is their latest push. There can be no external borders to the Palestinian Territories in The West Bank as these borders will be used to traffic light and heavy weapons across by Hamas and Islamic State. If formal ties with Saudi flounder on the issue of Borders and Full Statehood for the Palestinians, then so be it. The solution is Limited, but Well Funded, Autonomy in Areas A and B for the Palestinian Authority.
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Great post !
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