Saudi-Israeli Normalization Won’t Hurt Palestinians
A 75-year diplomatic boycott has gotten them nothing; continuing is unlikely to help.
August 7, 2023
Saudi-Israeli Normalization Won’t Hurt Palestinians
A 75-year diplomatic boycott has gotten them nothing; continuing is unlikely to help.
Last week, U.S. media reported that the head of the Mossad came to Washington in July and met with senior American officials about the possibility of establishing formal diplomatic relations between Jerusalem and Riyadh—also the apparent subject of National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan’s recent visit to the kingdom. The response to these developments from some quarters, including pro-Israel ones, is that such an agreement might “throw the Palestinians under the bus,” as one headline put it. Hussain Abdul-Hussain strongly disagrees:
August 7, 2023
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