by Admin
Sep 21, 2024
Saudi Arabia crown prince has announced that his country will not be in any form of relationship with Israel amidst the ongoing war in Gaza Strip and West Bank.
The Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salma disclosed that the kingdom will not also cease to support the creation of a free Palestinian state which is devoid of any form of colonialism or orchestratization by Israel or the western powers.
He made this statement at the opening session of its advisory Shura Council, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salma said “ “We renew the kingdom’s rejection and strong condemnation of the crimes of the Israeli occupation authority against the Palestinian people”.
The Saudi Arabia crown prince further added that “The kingdom will not cease its tireless efforts to establish an independent Palestinian state with east Jerusalem as its capital, and we affirm that the kingdom will not establish diplomatic relations with Israel without one.” .
In 2020 former United States president, Donald Trump, brokered a normalization deal between Israel and Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, which ended their stance of “no form of relationship with Israel until a free Palestinian state has been established”.
This decision by the other three Arab countries has led to Saudi Arabia becoming the most important resistance against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian sovereignty.
Antony Blinken, the United States Secretary of State earlier this month has had a series of meetings with the Saudi Arabia government in a bid to sway them into normalizing relations with Israel as a key possible factor in a ceasefire agreement between Israel in Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
In his visit to Haiti on September 6, the United States Secretary of State said that “I think if we can get a ceasefire in Gaza, there remains an opportunity through the balance of this administration to move forward on normalization,” .
While in Riyadh on April 29 at the meeting of the World Economic Forum, Blinken said “In order to move forward with normalization, two things will be required — calm in Gaza and a credible pathway to a Palestinian state,”.
The United States has offered a new security package to Saudi Arabia in exchange for its normalization of relations between the Oil Rich kingdom and Israel, but Saudi leaders keep insisting on a plus for the recognition of a free Palestinian state with security guarantees for Palestine against any future aggression by Israel.
This request has been met with hard resistance by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who keeps insisting that there would be no free Palestinian state.