President Biden says a goal of Hamas' terrorist assault against Israel was to derail a historic normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia, an assessment that fits with analysis promoted by many regional experts since the Palestinian militant group's Oct. 7 attack.
President Joe Biden meets with European Council President Charles Michel and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Friday, Oct. 20, 2023, in Washington. President Biden says a goal of Hamas’ terrorist assault against Israel was to derail a historic normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia, an assessment that fits with analysis promoted by many regional experts since the Palestinian militant group’s Oct. 7 attack.
Jerusalem and Riyadh have been steadily inching closer to normalization, with Biden administration officials working behind the scenes in recent months to help bring the two countries together. However, the details of Saudi-Israel-U.S. negotiations on normalization are closely guarded. The Saudis are reported to have insisted on protections and expanded rights for Palestinian interests as part of any broader agreement with Israel.
“ is clearly an existential threat to Hamas, but it would allow there to be a Muslim run authority in those areas, both giving security to Israel, but also giving some kind of financial and moral and military security to the people living there,” Mr. Marr said in the video. “And that was the threat that I think may have explained the timing of this particular attack. And it’s a threat of course to Iran because it opens up this Sunni versus division right across the region.
Analysts say the idea that oil-rich Saudi Arabia is moving toward joining the accords rankles Iran, which has championed the Palestinian cause while underwriting militant groups hostile to Israel, such as Hamas and Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement. Iran’s theocracy is an enemy of Israel and has long positioned itself as the primary regional rival of Saudi Arabia. Iranian leaders are widely seen to fear the prospect of an Israeli-Saudi alliance against Tehran.
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