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‘Saudi Arabia seeks end to Gaza war as pathway to Israel ties’

On Friday, Trump said that Riyadh may soon join the Abraham Accords.

(April 27, 2025 / JNS) Saudi Arabia needs the war against Hamas in Gaza to conclude—and some framework for a Palestinian state to be articulated, however unrealistic—before it can finalize a normalization deal with Israel, the chairman of a nonprofit promoting Israeli-Arab diplomacy said on Sunday.

“When Saudi Arabia signs a normalization deal with Israel, that will mark the end of the Arab-Israeli conflict in the Middle East,” said Dan Feferman, chairman of Sharaka, speaking at the JNS International Policy Summit in Jerusalem. “At least a dozen other Arab countries will follow.”

Feferman cautioned, however, that Riyadh, as the custodian of Islam’s holiest sites, cannot be seen as abandoning the Palestinian cause—even if Saudi leadership acknowledges that a two-state solution may no longer be realistic.

On Friday, U.S. President Donald Trump said that the kingdom may very well join the four Arab countries that signed  the Abraham Accords with Jerusalem during his first term.

“I think Saudi Arabia will go into the Abraham Accords. … We had four countries in there, it was all set. We would have had it packed. Now we’re going to start it again,” he said, referring to the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan that normalized ties with the Jewish state in 2020.

Although Trump did not say when this diplomatic development might occur, he alluded to a time frame after his trip to the Middle East next month, where he is slated to visit Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE.

“There are seismic changes underway in the Middle East, and we will only see them advance under Donald Trump,” said Victoria Coates, vice president of the Heritage Foundation’s Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy and a former U.S. deputy national security advisor, during a panel discussion on “The New Middle East.”

“The best thing Israel can do is win this war—then peace with these countries will follow,” said Bobby Rechnitz, chairman of the Abraham Accords Roundtable and a Los Angeles-based entrepreneur. He added that economic cooperation would cement regional peace.

“You don’t need to wait for Saudi Arabia; eventually, they will come along,” Rechnitz said.

 

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Joe Cross 12:13 28.04.2025
Some kind of Palestinian state? Okay easy enough. All of the Arab countries must declare publicly that they accept Israel as the only Jewish state and that it’s against their doctrine to deny it🇮🇱
Karolina De 02:51 28.04.2025
ISRAEL WHEN WILL YOU LEARN , WHEN WILL YOU STOP BEGGING AND INVITING THE MUSLIMS TO MAKE A PACT WITH DEATH THAT WILL BE BEOKEN SOON BY THE BEAST
Jerry C 00:39 28.04.2025
Agree with Jeff about the destructive Israeli left. They are an Albatross around the neck of Israel. It's bad enough Israeli ended up in the worlds crappiest neighborhood,
[Anonymous] 21:15 27.04.2025
Qatar will not be able to play any role without Muslim Brotherhood and its propaganda arm Aljazira , even with its trillions of Dollars.Just stop Qatar/muslimbrotherhood/Aljazira
[Anonymous] 21:10 27.04.2025
Israel will never lives in peace, security,and prosperity until US,Trump,and Robio declare Muslim Brotherhood as a global criminal terrorist organization and Qatar will be silenced forever.
[Anonymous] 21:03 27.04.2025
Hamas ,Gazans , Palestinians in West Bank ,will not stop fighting Israeli until Qatar stops funding them and support them with Aljazira propaganda.US must stop Qatar once and for ever.
Jeff Berez 20:54 27.04.2025
The Israeli left needs to shut up and Netanyahu needs to just finish Hamas off once and for all
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