Pak Sahafat – The Reuters news agency pointed out that Israel will never make any concessions for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, and the normalization agreement between Riyadh and Tel Aviv depends on the Saudi-American defense treaty.
According to the International group of Pak Sahafat news agency, While the Saudis are still insisting that solving the Palestinian issue based on the “two-state” solution and forming an independent Palestinian government with East Jerusalem as its capital is one of the three main conditions for Saudi Arabia to sign a compromise agreement with the Zionist regime, a foreign media reported that Riyadh’s main condition In exchange for normalization with Tel Aviv, it has nothing to do with the Palestinian issue.
Saudi Arabia’s main condition for normalization with Israel has nothing to do with the Palestinian issue
The Reuters news agency published a report in this regard and announced that Saudi Arabia has a main condition in exchange for normalization with Israel, which if fulfilled, regardless of other issues related to Palestinian rights, an agreement between Riyadh and Tel Aviv will be reached. In fact, Saudi reaching a defense agreement with America will push the Saudis towards normalization; Even if Israel does not give great concessions to the Palestinians regarding the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.
In the continuation of this report, it is stated that Saudi Arabia’s desired agreement with the United States may not reach the level of strict defense guarantees similar to NATO. This is while Riyadh was looking for a NATO-like agreement with the United States, and this issue was first discussed between Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and US President Joe Biden during his visit to Saudi Arabia last summer.
The mechanism of the United States to sign a defense treaty with Saudi Arabia
An American source told Reuters news agency that the agreement may be similar to treaties the United States has concluded with Asian countries. Also, if the defense treaty between Saudi Arabia and the United States is not approved by Congress, an agreement similar to the American agreement with Bahrain, which hosts the fifth fleet of the United States Navy, may be made between Washington and Riyadh, which does not require congressional approval.
This source added that Washington can also raise the level of any agreement with this country by placing Saudi Arabia in the list of its main allies outside the framework of the NATO treaty; the situation he had previously created for Israel.
Saudi Arabia goes its own way in normalization/Tel Aviv will never make concessions for the establishment of a Palestinian state
Reuters news agency continued to report that in the meantime, the Palestinians may be freed from some Israeli restrictions, but none of them reach the level of their desire to form an independent state, which is the main desire of the Palestinians.
Reuters quoted an informed source as saying that normalization between Saudi Arabia and Israel will happen even if the Palestinians are against it, and the Saudis are going their own way in this case. Saudi Arabia supports the “peace” plan for the Palestinians, but this time they want concessions for themselves, not just for the Palestinians.
An American official said in this regard, the criteria of the defense agreement between Saudi Arabia and the United States are still being discussed, and what is being discussed will not be an alliance based on a treaty or something like that, but a mutual defense understanding at the level of treaty is not complete. This would be similar to the US relationship with Israel, which receives the most advanced US weapons and conducts joint air force and missile defense exercises with Washington.
America will not sign an agreement similar to NATO with Saudi Arabia
An informed source in Washington announced that Mohammed bin Salman wants to sign a treaty with the United States similar to the NATO treaty; But the US does not want to give an obligation similar to Article 5 of the NATO agreement to Saudi Arabia, according to which an attack on any NATO member is an attack on all its members. Based on this, Biden’s aides may be looking to sign an agreement with Saudi Arabia similar to the agreements signed with Japan and other Asian countries allied to the United States; Agreements according to which the United States is committed to providing military support to the mentioned countries. However, it is possible that some American representatives are against even making such an agreement with Riyadh.
This source clarified that Saudi Arabia may be introduced as the main non-NATO ally of America and this action has been considered for a long time.