RIYADH — Just a year after announcing that diplomatic ties with Israel were getting closer, Saudi Arabia's de facto leader has shut down talk of normalization as the Israel-Hamas war threatens to spread.
RIYADH — Just a year after announcing that diplomatic ties with Israel were getting closer, Saudi Arabia 's de facto leader has shut down talk of normalization as the Israel-Hamas war threatens to spread.The tougher tone from Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman came the same day that exploding walkie-talkies killed members of Lebanon's Hezbollah movement, again raising fears of a wider war.
But after almost a year of war in Gaza, relations with Israel are simply unthinkable for the Saudi public, analysts say.'The violence of the war and the atrocities committed against the Palestinians have killed the possibility that normalization could be accepted by public opinion in Saudi Arabia,' said Rabha Saif Allam of the Cairo Center for Strategic Studies.
Arabia Cools Talk Of Israeli Ties Amid Threat Of Wider War
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