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This report comes after a statement by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, on Tuesday 15, during the signing of the normalization agreement between the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain on the one hand, and Israel on the other, in which he said that there are talks advanced with Riyadh. To also adhere to the agreement, which was neither confirmed nor denied by the Kingdom.
The newspaper added that King Salman bin Abdulaziz has for many years supported the boycott of Israel and the demand for an independent Palestinian state, but bin Salman wants to establish trade relations with Israel, establish a united front against Iran and avoid the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. , because it is a difficult conflict.
He also noted that the Saudi monarch was deeply shocked during his vacation, when US President Donald Trump announced on August 13 that Israel and the United Arab Emirates had signed an agreement for the “full normalization” of their relations. .
The same newspaper mentioned that the reason for this commotion was that the Saudi crown prince did not inform his father in advance of the agreement between Tel Aviv and Abu Dhabi.
The newspaper stated that bin Salman feared his father would oppose the deal as it did not contribute to the Palestinians’ demand to establish their status, to the point that (had the king known) the UAE would not have signed. an agreement with Israel so easily.
He also indicated that after the announcement of the Israeli-Emirati normalization agreement, the Saudi monarch asked his foreign minister to reaffirm his country’s commitment to the establishment of a Palestinian state.
After that, a member of the royal family, close to the Saudi king, wrote an article in a newspaper owned by Saudi Arabia, in which he renewed his country’s position and hinted that the United Arab Emirates should pressure Israel to do so. more concessions.
The newspaper reported that during a meeting between Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner and the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Prince Mohammed bin Salman said that his father “will not accept a normalization agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia.”
The crown prince said that the most the Kingdom can do at the moment, due to the objection of the Saudi king, is to contribute to the adherence of “little Bahrain” to the normalization agreement with Israel.
It is worth noting that, on August 13, the United Arab Emirates and Israel announced an agreement for full normalization between them, which Bahrain followed in a similar step on September 11.
On Tuesday, September 15, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed the two normalization agreements with Israel at the White House, under the auspices of the US president, ignoring the state of anger among popular Arab circles.
On the day of the signing of the “normalization” agreement, the Saudi cabinet announced that his country “supports a just and complete solution to the Palestinian problem.”
This was done by the official Saudi news agency (SPA), shortly after the signing ceremony of the normalization agreement between Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates on the one hand and Israel on the other, at the White House in Washington, DC.
According to the agency, the Council, chaired by King Salman bin Abdulaziz, reviewed, through visual communication, all the issues on the development of the events and their developments in the region and the world.
The Council affirmed “to support the Palestinian people and support all efforts aimed at reaching a just and comprehensive solution to the Palestinian question, allowing the Palestinian people to establish their independent Palestinian state on the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital, in accordance with the decisions of international legitimacy and the Arab Peace Initiative. “
While the Council did not comment on the signing of the normalization agreement between Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Israel, or what was raised from the US talks on talks with Riyadh to move in the same direction.
Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan announced from Berlin on August 19, during a press conference with his German counterpart, that his country would not normalize relations with Israel before reaching a comprehensive Israeli peace agreement. – Palestinian based on the criteria established by the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative and the corresponding UN Security Council decisions.
