At Davos, Saudi foreign minister Faisal Bin Farhan, told the gathering of the powerful that his country would be interested in a peace treaty with Israel only if the west recognizes, as part of a comprehensive agreement, Palestinian statehood. In one smart move, Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MBS), who leads a nation where 96% of Saudis oppose any peace with Israel and are in support of a Palestinian independent state, responded to the United States and Israel. In effect, Saudi Arabia rebukes Netanyahu and Biden, who were pressing the country to normalize its relations with zero cost to Israel and all the burden on the rich gulf country.
It’s checkmate for AIPAC and Brett McGurk who had the gall to float the idea of pressing ahead with Israeli-Saudi normalization while both advocated for sending 2,000lbs bombs that Israel dropped on civilians in Gaza causing close to 25,000 casualties and counting.
Honestly, what we hope for from Saudi Arabia is to cut down its oil production in August 2024 to drive gas prices up the kazoo for Biden to lose the elections. Given the good relations MBS has had with Donald Trump, don’t write off that scenario yet as Saudi Arabia rebukes Netanyahu that Trump himself has also rebuked.
We believe that even this preliminary Saudi rebuke may be the result of a larger strategy to weaken Genocide Joe and temper the expectations of the violent Zionists running Israel today.
This is the only plausible, self-serving answer the Saudis could have asked for to shield themselves from Israeli violence against women and children.
HAMAS AND SAUDI ARABIA ARE NOT ON THE SAME PAGE
For those readers who know the Middle East well also know that Hamas follows Say’yid Qutb’s Islamic movement of the Muslim Brotherhood, born in Egypt in the 1920s. Unlike Saudi Arabia, whose central Najd region was home to Mohammad bin Abdul Wahab’s 18th century movement, Wahhabism, which Saudi Arabia embraces. Both Sunni movements are at odds with each other, which partially explains why some of the gulf countries have not obsessed over Gaza the same way Turkey and Qatar have.
In Islam, often, interests intersect. Both movements consider the Zionists of Israel as their enemy, even though UAE normalized relations with Israel out of its own short-term self interests. However, the real prize for Israel is the normalization with Saudi Arabia, home to the two holiest sites in Islam. As of today, Saudi Arabia told Israel “No”, unless a Palestinian statehood is in the cards. When 96% of your people refute peace with a violent country committing genocide, you state and demand impossible conditions to slide out of a tight spot.
This is the only plausible, self-serving answer the Saudis could have asked for to shield themselves from Israeli violence against women and children.
In Netanyahu’s case, he hoped the Saudis would throw him a raft by giving him the diplomatic cover to remain in office. A Saudi-Israeli rapprochement, or normalization, would have been a lifeline for the mass murderer in Jerusalem. MBS just put Netanyahu’s neck on the chopping block.
Bravo.
America has set all its protection layers across the region to help Israel expand at the expense of the Palestinians and the Syrians, whom Israel already annexed their Golan Heights.
PRESSURE ON THE UAE AND BAHRAIN IS COMING
Both Bahrain and the UAE have retained the status quo with Israel despite their population mirroring, in opinion, those of Saudi Arabia. But that may change as pressure mounts from other Arab and Muslim countries to change course. Especially Iran, which enjoys semi-friendly relations with the UAE.
The longer the Israeli genocide continues without any resolution to Palestinian statehood, the more pressure is going to mount on the UAE and Bahrain to get their acts together. Even after the war stops, there is a great tide taking place globally in favor of the Palestinians, which will pressure the U.S. and Europe to change course. Think Muslim countries boycotting silently unnecessary US or European products. Think about the Arab world demanding U.S. exit from the region all together. Many have already concluded that if the United States cannot be an honest broker, it just should not have any military bases in the Near East region.
The Chinese can fill the Arab security needs plenty because the United States has proven it cannot be trusted to show neutrality in the region. America has set all its protection layers across the region to help Israel expand at the expense of the Palestinians and the Syrians, whom Israel already annexed their Golan Heights.
Because of its blind support for Israeli violence, America is fast becoming the tailbone human part most Arab countries have no use for.