The response to the October 7 massacre is an inflection point for Israel’s – and the West’s – survival. If peace is the goal, decisive victory is the only means to its achievement.
Based on past experience with normalization agreements, three components are presently missing on both the Israeli and Palestinian sides: legitimate leadership, political determination, and trust.
The Saudis have said that Israel's continuing the war, and the high death toll of Palestinian civilians, has delayed normalization.
“We have never said that was our policy,” Lew told the Conference of Presidents when quizzed about the matter on Sunday night.
"Virtually every Arab country now genuinely wants to integrate Israel" into the Middle East, Blinken told the Munich Security Conference.
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The Saudis repeated that normalization required two things, Blinken said, “One, there needs to be calm in Gaza; two, there needs to be a clear and credible pathway to a Palestinian state."
According to a report on Channel 13, Israel and the US have recently been discussing a plan for the exile of senior Hamas members as part of a wider deal.
The kingdom stated to affirm its steadfast position to Washington on the Palestinian issue in the light of the comments attributed to Kirby.
Riyadh has been pushing for the creation of a Palestinian state for quite some time, but the war has exacerbated the issues that would potentially be solved through a two-state solution.
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