{"id":1995896,"date":"2023-08-09T19:23:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T23:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-mutes-talk-of-saudi-israel-deal-in-time-for-2024-election\/"},"modified":"2023-08-09T19:26:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T23:26:43","slug":"us-mutes-talk-of-saudi-israel-deal-in-time-for-2024-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-mutes-talk-of-saudi-israel-deal-in-time-for-2024-election\/","title":{"rendered":"US avoids discussing potential Saudi-Israel deal ahead of 2024 election."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fus-mutes-talk-of-saudi-israel-deal-in-time-for-2024-election%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1995896&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Diplomatic \u200cRelations with Israel: A Long Road \u2062Ahead<\/h2>\n<p>Saudi Arabia will not establish diplomatic \u2063relations with Israel in the near future, according to senior U.S. officials who sought to\u200c temper expectations amid an Israeli\u200c push for\u2063 a regional security pact \u200bin the Middle East.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;ve had productive conversations,\u201d State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters. \u201cWe<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uk-may-ease-ccp-virus-lockdown-from-march-foreign-secretary-says\/\" title=\"UK May Ease CCP Virus Lockdown From March, Foreign Secretary Says\">\u2019ve made progress<\/a>\u2064 on \u200da\u200b number of issues. \u2063I\u2019m \u200cnot going to get into what the\u2064 progress \u200cis, but it is still \u200da long road to \u200cgo\u200d with\u2062 an uncertain \u2063future.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Saudi Arabia has tantalized U.S. and \u2063Israeli officials \u2062with the hope of joining the \u2064Abraham Accords, a potential strategic triumph\u200c that has arisen on the diplomatic \u2063horizon despite President Joe\u200b Biden\u2019s\u200c fraught relationship \u200bwith \u200dthe Saudi \u2063royals. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-mutes-talk-of-saudi-israel-deal-in-time-for-2024-election\/\" title=\"US avoids discussing potential Saudi-Israel deal ahead of 2024 election.\">oil-rich\u2062 monarchy recently unveiled<\/a> an \u2062analogous \u2064deal with Iran under China\u2019s\u200d auspices, but Israeli officials remain eager \u2063to formalize a developing relationship with the leading \u2063Gulf Arab state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecuring \u2064an\u2062 alliance with Saudi Arabia wouldn\u2019t be merely \u2062another diplomatic achievement; it\u200c would form\u200c the foundation upon \u200cwhich true regional harmony can be built,\u201d Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen\u2064 wrote in a Tuesday column \u200dfor the Wall Street\u2063 Journal. \u201cSuch a partnership might inspire other nations to pursue enduring peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those talks have been haunted by tensions between President Joe Biden\u2064 and \u200cSaudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin \u2064Salman, \u200dwhom he called a\u2064 \u201cpariah\u201d following the assassination of Washington Post columnist \u200bJamal \u200bKhashoggi, \u200bas well as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/impossible-gop-picked-up-seats-in-house-picked-up-state-legislatures-picked-up-governorship-held-the-senate-but-sniffy-joe-won-not-a-chance\/\" title=\"IMPOSSIBLE: GOP Picked Up Seats in House, Picked Up State Legislatures, Picked Up Governorship, Held the Senate -- But Sniffy Joe Won?... NOT A CHANCE\">power-sharing agreement<\/a> with far-right Israeli lawmakers. \u2062Yet Cohen put a spotlight \u200bon\u2063 Saudi \u201cdemands \u2062of the U.S.,\u201d which he offered as a sign that U.S.-anchored security arrangement, \u201ccomparable \u200d [to the] American defense pledge\u201d\u2062 that has guarded \u200dSouth Korea from \u2063North\u200c Korea\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-israel-and-the-iranian-mullahs\/\" title=\"Joe Biden, Israel, And The Iranian Mullahs\">nuclear-armed regime<\/a>, could lead to a breakthrough in\u2064 the\u200b Gulf.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost of [the Saudi] \u2063 requests concern Iranian aggression and the kingdom\u2019s ability to defend itself against this threat,\u201d Cohen \u2062wrote. &#8220;This underscores Saudi Arabia\u2019s perspective: The primary challenge isn\u2019t Israel \u200dbut Iran, \u200cwhich \u200bis intent on spreading its Shiite Islamic revolution throughout the region by means of violence, terrorism and nuclear-weapons development.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cohen\u2019s appeal coincided with a report in the same publication\u200d that Washington and Riyadh \u2063\u201chave \u200dagreed on the broad contours \u2062of a deal\u201d \u200dto join\u2063 the\u2064 Abraham Accords that could be finalized &#8220;in the next nine to\u2062 12 months.\u201d \u2062That time frame would position Biden to unveil a major\u200c diplomatic achievement \u200cduring \u2062an election year, just as then-President Donald Trump managed \u2064to unveil\u200b the original Abraham Accords with the United \u2063Arab \u2064Emirates and Bahrain in September 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe continue to discuss the possibility \u2064of normalization of relations \u200cbetween Israel\u2064 and Saudi Arabia with Saudi Arabia, with Israel,\u201d Miller said. \u201cWe will continue to work towards that \u200daim, recognizing that it\u2019s a difficult \u2064\u2014 it is a long and difficult process. But I \u200cthink the reports that we have reached some sort of \u200cagreement vastly \u2064overstate where things \u2064stand.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>White \u2063House&#8217;s \u2062Perspective<\/h3>\n<p>White\u2062 House national security \u200cadviser\u2064 Jake Sullivan met with the Saudi\u200d crown prince \u200blate last month in service of \u201ca common vision for a more peaceful, secure, prosperous,\u200d and \u2064stable \u200bMiddle East region \u200binterconnected with \u2064the world,\u201d as a readout\u2062 of \u2062their conversation put\u200c it. Yet his team rejected the idea that the end is in sight.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cJust to be blunt here, I\u200c think the reporting has left some people with the impression \u2063that \u200bdiscussions\u2062 are farther\u2063 along and closer \u2063to some sense of certainty than they actually are,\u201d White House National Security Council spokesman \u200cJohn Kirby said Wednesday. \u2063\u201cThere&#8217;s still a\u200b lot of conversations that\u2062 have to occur before we \u200dget there. So, the bottom line is:\u200c There is no agreed-to set \u2063of negotiations. There\u2019s no agreed-to \u200cframework to \u200ccodify normalization \u200b\u2014 \u200bor any of the other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-are-at-the-mercy-of-terrorists-kayleigh-mcenany-responds-to-taliban-grounded-flights-in-afghanistan\/\" title=\"\u2018We Are At The Mercy Of Terrorists\u2019: Kayleigh McEnany Responds To Taliban-Grounded Flights In Afghanistan\">security considerations<\/a> \u200bthat we, \u200cand our friends, have \u200bin the region.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia has no plans to establish diplomatic ties with Israel soon, as confirmed by senior U.S. officials. They aim to manage expectations amidst Israel&#8217;s efforts for a Middle East security agreement. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller stated that productive discussions have taken place, with progress made on various matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1995897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1995896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1995896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1995897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1995896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1995896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1995896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}