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2023-05-24 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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US wants Israel to shelve judicial overhaul in return for Saudi normalization — TV
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This is the Biden administration’s version of a pincer movement: within Israel the State Department-funded protests, outside Israel holding hostage an Abraham Accord with Saudi Arabia’s crown prince. [IsraelTimes] Report also claims both Washington and Riyadh are conditioning potential establishment of diplomatic ties on Israel restarting peace talks with Paleostinians.
What a pointless waste of energy that would be for all involved. The White House reportedly wants Israel to halt its judicial overhaul and restart peace talks with the Paleostinian Authority in order for the US to move forward with brokering normalization between Israel and Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
Reports have swirled in recent days that Jerusalem and Riyadh are in the midst of negotiations over direct flights between the nations that have the potential to lead to a wider normalization deal — which has long been sought by Israel but largely rejected by the Saudis.
Why should they, when the Biden administration will make impossible demands for them? An unsourced Channel 12 news report Tuesday evening said the US and the Saudis have enumerated their demands for such an agreement moving forward. The report claimed that Washington and Riyadh are both seeking to pressure Israel into restarting diplomatic talks with the Paleostinians, and the US is also demanding that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu halt his government’s controversial judicial overhaul plan.
This strikes me as the kind of deal Israel should walk away from. There is entirely too much demanding for what is being offered. On Friday, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
...Crown Prince and modernizer of Saudi Arabia as of 2016. The Turks hate him, so he must be all right, despite the occasional brutal murder of Qatar-owned journalists...
told the Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
that "the Paleostinian issue was and remains the central issue for Arab countries, and it is at the top of the kingdom’s priorities."
Nobody actually believes boilerplate, right? The Saudis are also reportedly demanding that the White House unfreeze some Trump-era weapons deals that were frozen when US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
 ...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem mschine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family...
took office, and are also seeking a defense treaty with the US similar to NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
as well as its stamp of approval for a civilian nuclear program.
A full nuclear program? That seems a tad risky, given what Saudi populace has been so carefully taught. A full normalization deal, the report claims, would offer Israel in exchange full US backing for its actions against Iran’s nuclear weapons program.
Is there a knife in that backing? In 2020, Israel agreed to freeze a plan to annex wide swaths of the West Bank in exchange for the Abraham Accords which normalized relations with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, and later Morocco.
Channel 12 reported Tuesday that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan are involved in the negotiations alongside Mossad chief David Barnea ...whose intelligence no doubt is equal to the total of the Americans in this equation... and "very bigwigs" close to bin Salman.
The TV network cited a senior Israeli official as saying that a normalization deal would be a "gamechanger for Israeli security," and that there is "potential for a deal," but it will require courage from Netanyahu, Biden and bin Salman.
One wonders how that senior Israeli official voted in the last election... On Monday, the channel reported that the Saudis were pressuring Israel to hand certain powers in the West Bank from the IDF to the Paleostinian Authority forces, give the PA forces security-related authority at the Temple Mount and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem’s Old City — far-reaching steps that are highly unlikely to be approved by Israel’s hard-right government.
What are you demanding of the Palestinians, O crown prince? Speaking at a conference on Tuesday, National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi denied that there had been any direct conversations between Netanyahu and bin Salman in recent months, but said a normalization deal was possible.
"There is in Saudi Arabia a leader that the world has never seen before, a man who took his country 180 degrees in a different direction, a bold and revolutionary leader," Hanegbi said. "If he thinks that it is possible to reach normalization with Israel, it will happen. I believe there is a chance this will happen."
In a historic move last year, Saudi Arabia announced that it opened its airspace to all civilian overflights, hours before Biden became the first US leader to directly fly from Israel to the Gulf nation.
On Saturday, Foreign Minister Eli Cohen touted the possibility of normalization with Saudi Arabia within six months, during an interview with Channel 12’s Meet the Press.
"There’s a good chance we can advance a peace agreement with Saudi Arabia," Cohen said. "I assume there is definitely a chance in half a year, or in the coming year."
Cohen cited Jerusalem and Riyadh’s joint interests, notably preventing Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
from creating a nuclear bomb, as a reason to be hopeful for a deal.
Saudi Arabia’s decision in March to renew ties with Iran after over half a decade was seen by some as a setback for normalization between the kingdom and Israel.
But the Biden administration has continued to work on striking such a deal in recent months, with Sullivan calling it a "national security interest" earlier this month. Shortly after those comments, Sullivan flew to Riyadh, where he met with bin Salman and raised the issue. He was accompanied by senior White House aides Brett McGurk and Amos Hochstein who subsequently traveled to Jerusalem to brief Netanyahu on the status of the endeavor.
Foreign Ministry director-general Ronen Levy also spoke with administration officials about a potential Saudi deal during his trip to Washington last week.
Netanyahu flew to Saudi Arabia in November 2020 to meet with bin Salman, the first publicly reported meeting between the two. Israel and Saudi Arabia do not have diplomatic relations, but clandestine ties have strengthened in recent years, as the two countries have confronted a shared threat in Iran.
Was Klingon head man Bill Burns on holiday, or simply not invited to any of these festivities. 
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