The comprehensive poll, which gauged sentiments across 16 Arab countries, underscores a growing resistance against normalization with Israel in the wake of the Israeli war on Gaza.
The war has returned this issue to the top of the agenda, and paradoxically, it offers an opportunity for a solution that will strengthen Israel’s position in the Middle East.
Protests against the Israel-Hamas War have repeatedly drawn thousands of people in Morocco since the conflict began.
White House downplays Biden’s claim of IDF indiscriminate Gaza bombing.
Recognizing the mutual economic gains to be made from accelerating cooperation on clean energy and cleaning up fossil fuels could help to spur on Arab-Israeli normalization.
Efforts to reach a normalization agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia had reportedly been put on ice.
Despite these concerns, American and Saudi officials seem to still believe a normalization agreement can be worked out, with many of the shared interests that pushed them together still there.
The former Saudi ambassador said that Hamas's attack on Israeli civilians "belies Hamas's claims to an Islamic identity."
The leader of Hezbollah warned against al-Aqsa becoming "a Jewish synagogue."
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict seems to loom over the negotiations for a Saudi-Israeli normalization deal.
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