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“Israel will not cooperate with such moves aimed at harming it and its security,” an Israeli official told reporters.
By Joshua Marks
The Doha discussions, which reportedly included P.A. official Hussein al-Sheikh, also covered the establishment of an administrative committee to manage the coastal enclave.
By Joshua Marks
The Saudi summit focused on an Egyptian proposal for the war-torn coastal enclave.
By David Isaac
More than half of respondents would oppose a "Palestinian" state even if it were part of a Saudi-Israel peace deal.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Witkoff is expected to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials in Jerusalem.
By Alex Welz
Israel-Saudi normalization is “more closely tethered to the U.S.-Saudi economic and defense relationship than advancement in the Palestinian track,” said Dan Diker, of Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
"You claimed victory over the U.S. and Israel just a year ago, and now you position yourselves as victims," activist Abdul Rahman al-Otaibi said.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Riyadh is also waiting for a ceasefire in Gaza before potentially signing on to the Abraham Accords.
The list includes the “Council of the United Arab Emirates,” and the members of the Gulf States Council, also known as the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) which brings together the following six countries in the Gulf: Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Bahrain and Qatar.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israeli Minister Benny Gantz's party does, however, want an "international civilian governance mechanism for Gaza" that includes "Palestinians."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The series of arrests is driven by security concerns connected to Oct. 7, according to Riyadh-based diplomats and human rights groups.
“This is a package deal,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said of the components of a Saudi-Israeli agreement. “None go forward without the others.”
“Some people think that by forcing neighboring countries to normalize their ties [with Israel] the problem will be solved. They are wrong,” said the Iranian leader.
“In the Arab world and in Iran, we’re hearing words of ridicule for the poor capability of Iran’s missiles,” a prominent Saudi commentator said.
By Joshua Marks
“Iran is a nation that endorses terrorism, and the world should have curtailed it much earlier," a member of the royal family told Hebrew media.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Arab states were initially hesitant to share the information, fearing Iranian reprisal, according to The Wall Street Journal.
By Ariel Kahana
Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer is scheduled to meet the Saudi ambassador to Washington in pursuit of an historic agreement.
By Ariel Kahana
The plan also envisions normalization between Israel and the Arab world, the release of captives and a new regime in Gaza.
By Joshua Marks
The Israeli prime minister reportedly dismissed the proposal, brought to him by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
Achieving any shared vision, however, will be complicated.
Use of the route has grown exponentially in the wake of the Houthi attacks on commercial vessels.
Thanks to the Houthis attacking ships, the land-route has become very popular.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Minister of Investment Khalid Al-Falih also announced that Riyadh will host three summits on the Hamas war.
Blinken's trip will include a visit to Ramallah in the Palestinian Authority.
By Ariel Kahana
The Saudis are not pressuring Israel to make hefty concessions to the Palestinian Authority.
The Saudi want peace with Israel and a defense treaty with the US, that's all they care about.
Saudi aid to the Palestinian Authority dropped from $174 million a year in 2019 to zero in 2021.
By JNS & JewishPress.com News Desk
Israeli officials are "quietly working" with the White House to develop a "US-run, uranium-enrichment operation" in the kingdom.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Riyadh reportedly asked Washington to freeze negotiations over the Netanyahu government's stance on concessions to the Palestinian Authority.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
he top U.S. diplomat said that for Riyadh, too, progress on the "Palestinian" issue was necessary for the normalization process to move forward.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The development comes amid a U.S.-led effort to persuade Riyadh to join the Abraham Accords.
Some within the PA believe they will lose out from a Saudi normalization.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The kingdom contributed billions to Palestinian Authority Arab causes until cutting off funding over corruption.
The Israelis spent the night in a hotel in Saudi Arabia.
Air Seychelles flight HM22/SEY022 to Tel Aviv made an emergency landing in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The U.S. secretary of state said Saudi Arabia will need to show Muslims it extracted major achievements for the "Palestinians" in any normalization deal.
Jake Sullivan has traveled to Riyadh numerous times over the last six months in a bid to broker an agreement.
The Prime Minister’s Office clarified that Israel has not agreed to any of its neighboring countries having a nuclear program, without distinguishing between military and civilian programs.
The timing was not accidental when Saudi Arabia announced its ambassador to Jordan will also take on the roles of ambassador to the Palestinian Authority and consul general in eastern Jerusalem.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Eli Cohen predicted that Netanyahu and the Saudi crown prince would make history together.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
David Barnea met with the U.S. national security advisor at the White House ahead of his trip to Jeddah.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The "Land Connectivity by Trucks" proposal hopes to kick off even before Jerusalem-Riyadh normalization.
The Israeli team is ranked second in the world.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Such a deal might see Tehran promise to halt nuclear enrichment.
The “Tracks for Regional Peace” plan and a newer U.S.-backed proposal to connect Gulf and Arab countries with India come as talks intensify between Israel and Saudi Arabia to reach a normalization agreement by the end of the year.
“Normalization with Riyadh could happen within six months.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
If the Saudis can “calm the Yemeni situation down, I think that’s great,” the U.S. envoy to Jerusalem said.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It’s in Riyadh’s interest to forge an agreement while Biden is in office, U.S. officials said.
By Ariel Kahana
Washington is examining Riyadh's conditions for peace with Jerusalem, including establishing a civilian nuclear program.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Riyadh refused to issue visas to the delegation from the Gaza-based terrorist organization, according to Iranian media.
Saudi reconciliation with the Iranians and now Hamas is a clear act of defiance towards the US and President Joe Biden.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Circassians from Kfar Kama were denied entry visas into the Gulf kingdom to attend an event honoring their lower Galilee village.
Tehran and Riyadh will reopen their embassies and restore diplomatic relations.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"If we have peace with Saudi Arabia, we are effectively going to bring an end to the Arab-Israeli conflict," Benjamin Netanyahu said.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"Iran’s Gulf Arab neighbors will “ensure their own security” in the event Tehran obtains nuclear weapons, Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister said on Sunday.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
P.A. leader Mahmoud Abbas urged world leaders at the China-Arab States Summit in Saudi Arabia to “refrain from dealing” with the Jewish state unless it commits to two states.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
King Abdullah speaks with the Israeli PM-designate by phone, while Sudanese military ruler Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan sends a letter.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Washington is “concerned about the threat picture” and “in constant contact” with the Saudis, says U.S. National Security Council.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Shachar Sagiv’s inclusion in the NEOM leg of the Super League Triathlon was “a very significant breakthrough,” says the head of Israel’s Olympic Committee.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami also threatened the U.S. and the U.K.
By Israel Hayom
Riyadh is reportedly in serious talks with Jerusalem about establishing business ties and bolstering security coordination.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Report: Tiran and Sanafir islands could be transferred to Saudi sovereignty if negotiations succeed, paving the way to Saudi normalization steps.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Saudi Arabia has selected two Israeli firms for investment via Jared Kushner’s new private equity fund.
The Saudis attacked Houthi-controlled areas in response to the attacks.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A U.S. State Department spokesman reportedly stated that the Biden administration has been helping the country “strengthen air defenses in response to a rising number of aerial attacks from Yemen.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Meanwhile, France said a decision on whether to revive the 2015 nuclear deal was days away, and that Tehran had to make a decision.
For now, the UAE continues to support social enterprises in Gaza -- but this could change.
By Josh Hasten
“Countries have interests, they don’t necessarily have friends, and the Saudis have come to the conclusion that it is in their national interests to make peace with the Israelis,” said attorney Eric Levine, a participant and board member of the Republican Jewish Coalition.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Reports say Syrian President Bashar Assad demanded the exit of Quds Force commander Jawad Ghafari over breaches of sovereignty.
By JNS & JewishPress.com News Desk
Hezbollah’s role in Lebanon needs “reform and comprehensive revision,” says Saudi foreign minister.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The men, residents of Saudi Arabia, were arrested three years ago and accused of links with a terrorist organization and its fundraising.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israel and Saudi Arabia do not have diplomatic relations, although reports have resurfaced in the past suggesting cooperation against Tehran.
By Israel Hayom
As of last Monday, it was still unclear whether or not Al-Qahtani would face Hershko.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Othman Al-Omeir, the editor of the news website Elaph, tweeted: “I support Tahani Al-Qahtani, whether she wins or loses. It will be a disgrace [only] if she withdraws.”
President Biden's war on Saudi Arabia is escalating.
Biden has threatened to "recalibrate" the US relationship with the Saudis, and is making good on that promise.
By Israel Hayom
According to the Saudi press, the last Jewish refugees from Yemen are seeking a country that will take them in, as they don’t wish to move to Israel.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Going forward, the kingdom’s actions will determine how much of the two countries’ “ambitious” shared agenda can be achieved.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The move is a reversal of U.S. relations under the Trump administration, which had maintained steady contact with Mohammed bin Salman, also known as “MBS.”
By Israel Hayom
“The development of the Iranian nuclear program and the ballistic missile project endanger the entire region,” Prince Faisal bin Farhan al Saud tells an emergency meeting of the Arab League.
By Israel Hayom
An Israeli official tells a London-based Arabic news outlet that the Saudis have cut off all behind-the-scenes coordination with Israel.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“How can Saudi Arabia educate Saudi youth of the mutual benefits of promoting relations with Israel if Israel is not even shown on the Saudi maps?” asked ZOA national president Mort Klein.
The Muslim Brotherhood issued a statement rejecting the Saudi proclamation.
There has been an ongoing fierce conflict between the Saudis and the Turks due to the latter’s support of the Muslim Brotherhood and following the struggle for hegemony over the Sunni camp in the Middle East.
Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan, a senior Saudi official, openly criticized the Palestinian Authority leadership for transferring their allegiance to Turkey and Iran.
Professor Muhammad al-Rabban published an article in Tel Aviv University’s Kesher journal on Jewish history, titled “A Contribution towards improving the image of the Prophet Muhammad in the eyes of the Israeli public: Muhammad’s covenants and correspondence with the Jews of the Arabian Peninsula.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his team have been mediating between Israeli and Saudi Arabia for the past few months, Israel Hayom reports.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Sheikh Mohammed al-Issa, secretary-general of the Muslim World League, is the most senior Islamic leader to visit the former death camp.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The journalist, a prominent figure in his home country, said there is “no escape from establishing normal relations with Israel,” and that those relations must be different that the ones Israel has with Jordan or Egypt.
The Saudis reportedly made the announcement in a meeting with the United Nations’ Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nickolay Mladenov.
Back in 2018, the Saudis refused to play the PA team in Ramallah in a FIFA qualifying match, and the game was played in Jordan instead.
The prime minister also commented Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s remarks at the United Nations General Assembly.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Among economic and other incentives, the Saudi offer apparently also includes the founding of a 'Palestinian' embassy in the West Bank town of Abu Dis, located on Jerusalem’s eastern outskirts.
The two leaders were attempting to convince as many Arab nations as possible to be neutral toward Israel and to accept economic relations with it.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israeli chess grandmaster Ilya Smirin and former spokesperson for the Israeli Chess Federation Lior Aizenberg have written to FIDE requesting financial compensation and seeking assurances that it will not allow host countries to perpetrate such discrimination against Israelis.
By JNi.Media
This model offers the latest cockpit and training system modifications to help Saudi pilots transition to the Eurofighter Typhoon combat jet.
By JNi.Media
The Israeli and Saudi military leaders discussed the Iranian issue, about which their views are similar.
Turkish officials say a team of alleged Saudi assassins probably killed a Saudi journalist in Istanbul.
Hezbollah are piloting the drones and aiming the missiles being used against the Saudi-led forces.
The Iranian controlled Hezbollah is concerned by Saudi interference.
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