Saudi Arabia Supports the Genocide But Says It Will Not Recognize Israel Until a Palestinian State is Approved

Prior to the beginning of the current phase of the war by Israel against Palestinians in Gaza which began on October 7, Israel and Saudi Arabia were close to a landmark breakthrough in political, security, and trade relations between them, despite Israel's continued abuse of Palestinians and frequent attacks on Syria and Iran.

The Saudi dictatorship in Riyadh has now declared that will not happen now. At least not until Israel agrees to what is for the administration of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the “for them unthinkable” proposition that the Palestinian people must be given their own independent state, as was promised by Israel back in 1995 in the Oslo Accords.

Initiated by Donald Trump's Jewish handlers as the Abraham accords, and continued by Zionist Team-Biden, as of the end of September 2023, momentum was growing for what would have been the most significant easing of tensions between Israel and parts of the Arab world in over a half century. The United States had been working feverishly to broker a deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia which would first have normalized relations between the countries, including recognition of Israel by the Saudis, likely establishing embassies in both countries, the beginnings of conventional bilateral trade, and direct flights between Tel Aviv and one or more locations in the Saudi dictatorship. The corrupt Islamic dictatorships in Bahrain and UAE had also signed up for the financially lucrative deal to make nice with Israel. 

For Saudi Arabia, Israel had gotten the United States to promise enhanced security guarantees for both countries and to assist Saudi Arabia with the creation of an ongoing nuclear program to compete with Iran. Israel was supposedly signed up to a more aggressive resolution of all Palestinian conflicts within the lands its government occupies and controls in Gaza, the West Bank, and in parts of Jerusalem and do more trade with the Islamic dictatorships. For the UAE that meant more Jewish child sex abusers for its lucrative human trafficking operations.

In a public address in September, indicted criminal and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his people that the country was “on the cusp” of making this deal with Saudi Arabia. He said it was of such importance that it could completely reshape the geopolitical and trade landscape of the Middle East.

Then came the Hamas assault on Israel on October 7 in retaliation to Israeli abuses of Palestinians.

Many questions swirl about events then, including how many killings occurred during that invasion, and details of real versus unproven crimes committed on behalf of Hamas. Israel’s official count of the number of dead had fallen to about 1,200, and that it lied about babies being beheaded. It is also now known that it Israeli Defense Forces may have killed as many as half of the 1,200, via American Apache helicopter gunships the IDF had brought in to counter the Hamas invasion and which then also fired missiles at buildings holding Israeli hostages, killing the hostages. The accusations of mass sexual assaults of Israeli women by Hamas fighters has also been proven false. 

It is also known that Israel was informed of the potential of and details for the October 7 attack long before it happened, supported by intelligence provided by Egypt's corrupt government, the United States and Israel’s own Mossad agency. Israel had apparently stood down its defenses to allow the attack to happen. Then there is the evidence that the Mossad and CIA created Hamas to counter the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and may still control the organization on some level.

Some Israelis have demanded answers from their government, but most are in lock-step with their fascist government and happy to wipe out all Palestinians. 

Israel has used these attacks to justify the unimaginable mass slaughter and genocide of now almost 26,000 Palestinians in Gaza, more than half being children. It has used the same argument to allow the formal sealing off of the Palestinian settlements on the West Bank, following months of escalating brutal murders of many of those who used to live there and the abduction and abuse of thousands, also since October 7; this is despite that they have nothing to do with what is happening in Gaza. And Israel has been carrying out attacks on Lebanon, Syria and Iran and through its proxies in the U.S. and UK it has been bombing Yemen. 

All this is part of the equation which led to the Saudi declaration on January 21 about what Israel must do now, if it wants to salvage any potential better relationship with them.

The statement came during an interview by CNN’s Fareed Zakeria with Saudi Arabia Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan al Saud, alongside where the World Economic Forum annual summit was ongoing in Davos, Switzerland this past week. Davos is where the world's evil billionaires and minions meet once a year to further their plans to rule the world. 

“So, you’ve seen the usual reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his coalition that ‘the reason he was going to be able to stay in power is …that I am the only person who will prevent the creation of a Palestinian state’,” Zakeria said as the setup for his question. “How can that prime minister be your [go-between] if you’re going to try to normalize relations with Israel?”

“It’s up to the Israeli people to decide who the prime minister is,” the foreign minister responded. “I will not get into that discussion.”

“I will just say that for the region to see true peace, to see true integration that delivers economic and social benefits for all of us including Israel, is through peace, through a credible, irreversible, process to a Palestinian state,” he said.

“Are you saying that, unequivocally, that if there is not a ‘credible, irreversible’ path to a Palestinian state, there will not be normalization of relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel?” Zakeria continued.

“That’s the only way we are going to get a benefit,” Prince Faisal bin Farhan answered. “So, yes. We need stability, and the only way stability will come is through resolving the Palestinian issue.”

The foreign minister was also asked about Saudi Arabia’ willingness to help pay for the reconstruction of Gaza whenever the war in Gaza ends. His answer was equally blunt.

“As long as we’re able to find a pathway to a solution, a resolution, a pathway that means that we’re not going to be here again in a year or two, then we can talk about anything,” Prince Faisal bin Farhan explained. “But if we are just resetting to the status quo before October 7, in a way that sets us up for another round of this, as we have seen in the past, we’re not interested in that conversation.”

Three days before this interview was made public, Israeli President Isaac Herzog said during a group discussion from the stage at the same Davos forum that normalizing relations with Saudi Arabia was an important step toward ending the war with Hamas, which all sounds fair enough other than it appeared Herzog was implying that normalization might happen before the war is over, something the foreign minister was quite clear could not happen.

Herzog, whose position as president of Israel has very little authority compared to Netanyahu or his cabinet officials, also responded to questions about the two-state Palestinian solutions the Saudis are insisting on with a more nuanced version of Netanyahu’s blunt message just hours before that this would never happen on his watch.

“When nations come forward and say ‘two-state solution,’ they have to first deal with a preliminary question, which is a core question for human beings: Are we offered real safety?” Herzog said to the World Economic Forum gathering.

It was the same talking point as Netanyahu’s, when he said that, “I also blocked the attempt [by countries such as the United States] to impose a reality on us that would harm Israel’s security.”

With those parallel messages, and with the Saudi Foreign Minister stating so clearly that there must be a two-state solution or there will be no normalization with Israel or even any realistic form of peace for the Middle East, Israel’s actions have destabilized yet another possible opportunity for geopolitical stability, possibly for yet another generation.

What fascist Israelis don't seem to understand is that in waging genocide against Palestinians there can never be peace for them and they will never be safe from justice anywhere on Earth. There can be no forgetting or forgiveness of their atrocities.

It has been reported that Saudi Arabia is allowing the transit of trucks from Dubai to Israel via Jordan in coordination with Israeli logistics company Trucknet. According to Trucknet, it has "signed agreements with Emirati-based PureTrans, which operates a landline transit network spanning the region (and its partner, port terminals operator DP World), Cox Logistics (Bahrain) and also Egypt-based logistics services company WWCS, to co-ordinate trucking services connecting the Dubai port of Jebel Ali and the port of Mina Salman, in Bahrain, via Saudi Arabia and Jordan, to Haifa, in Israel and Port Said in Egypt, from where cargo can continue to Europe."

The Saudi dictatorship has been very muted in its criticism of Israel and has suppressed protests of its own people against the genocide. This is consistent with Saudi Arabia's policy of pursuing only its own self-interest and never supporting Palestinian aspirations for freedom from Israeli oppression. As the most powerful member of the Arab League, it has used its position to pressure other Arab nations to betray Palestine while supporting Islamic terrorists in partnership with Israel and the U.S..