Everyone knows that these "accords" are a sham since they contribute nothing to stabilize the region that has been stricken with the double cancer of oil and Israel. When you coerce someone into making a deal they really don't want to be a part of, the deal will collapse at the first opportunity.
Everyone knows that the question of a free and independent Palestine - or at the very least a one-state solution in which both the indigenous Palestinian hosts and their Zionist guests can live together in hard-to-imagine harmony - is the key to a definitive solution to the 100-year old rape of Palestine by European, and lately American, colonial settlers. While these Arab countries signed the Abraham Accords with the American gun to their heads, it is only their governments that signed, but not their peoples who understand that these accords do NOT end the torment of Palestine and the region. They go along on the surface, even flashing fake insincere American-style smiles to please the Great Moron, but deep down they hate Israel and what it is doing to their fellow Muslim Palestinians.
Yet, Donald Dumb, dumb as he is, continues to try and force more countries to "normalize" with the Zionist rapists of Palestine, by threatening them or pretending to defend them against the Iranian scarecrow or bribing them. No consideration is given by the Idiot-in-Chief to the long term inevitable failure of these accords. He basically doesn't care as long as he can claim to have engineered a fake peace: The shallowness of the man-child is such that he believes, like most American businessman, that perception is everything and that substance doesn't matter.
The big prize for Trump's program of coerced normalization with the Zionist colony in Palestine is to force his Saudi eunuchs to sign one such accord. Yet, the Saudis have resisted so far, arguing that only when Palestinians are set free by their Zionist rapists that they -the Saudis- will consider normalizing with Israel.
Nothing has so far worked with the Saudis. They have invested billions of their petrodollars in the US to get the Great Moron off their back. They purchase weapons worth hundreds of billion dollars from the US. They are essentially crawling on all four to please Trump, but Palestine remains their sole and last term for any deal with Israel. Regardless of whether or not they are sincere in holding off normalization form the sake of a free Palestine, that is their official position. I do think, however, that the Wahhabi rulers of Saudi Arabia fear for their own future if they sell Palestine.
Saudi Arabia is the ultimate Sunni Muslim beacon. If they fall and normalize without Palestine, they lose that position of prestige, and might have to defend themselves against their own people's wrath and Muslims around the world. Can you imagine a Zionist-normalized Saudi Arabia in which Ben-Gvir and Smotrich would take a stroll across the Mataf esplanade of the Kaaba within Masjid al-Haram?
Donald Dumb is dangling some "nuclear deal" in the face of the Saudis, but on one condition: Forget Palestine and let his Zionist masters finish it off. Will the Saudis fall? I very much doubt it. Why would the Saudis need a "civilian" nuclear program when their oil and gas continue to flow and their vast deserts could serve to harvest enough solar energy to power the country?
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Saudi nuclear deal in doubt as Trump adds new condition regarding Israel
Michael Birnbaum and Evan Halper, (c) 2026 , The Washington Post
Thu, July 23, 2026
Saudi Arabia would need to normalize relations with Israel to receive the U.S. nuclear technology it has long sought, President Donald Trump said Thursday, adding a new and potentially deal-ending stipulation to an agreement signed just a day earlier.
The nuclear deal - which was fiercely opposed by Israel and others concerned about nuclear proliferation - is "totally subject" to Saudi Arabia joining the Abraham Accords, Trump said in a social media post, referring to the effort from his first term to normalize relations between Israel and Muslim-majority countries from which it had long been estranged. The Saudis have thus far refused to join the accord.
It was the latest whiplash-inducing policy shift from the White House, which had faced-down considerable political opposition to push forward with the Saudi deal. The Biden administration also discussed a nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia, but tied any agreement to opening diplomatic relations with Israel, a move that has the potential to reshape dynamics in the Middle East, but which remains distant.
If the Saudis "don't join the Abraham Accords, the deal is off," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said a few hours after Trump's post, responding to questions from reporters.
Asked why that condition had not been included in the deal when it was announced Wednesday, Leavitt said that Trump is "always the final dealmaker."
It wasn't immediately clear how the Trump administration would modify a legal agreement that it has already signed with the Saudi government. Asked for details, the White House pointed to Leavitt's comments.
The deal to allow the Saudis to build nuclear power plants using U.S. technology, creating a pathway to a Saudi nuclear enrichment program, has set off debate in Congress. Many lawmakers fear that allowing more countries to develop enrichment programs could eventually lead to more possessing nuclear weapons.
Israel hotly opposes Saudi Arabia's developing a nuclear enrichment program, fearful it could lead to a regional arms race. Israeli leaders welcomed Trump's new conditions.
The Saudis have long sought to build nuclear power plants on their territory - and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto ruler of the country, has declared that they would work to develop nuclear weapons if Iran develops its own.
The Biden administration also explored a nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia, but it ultimately floundered because normalizing relations with Israel was the main condition the U.S. placed on the agreement. The deal the Trump administration signed Wednesday would have imposed no such requirement.
Trump's new condition on Thursday would attach a major string to the deal. Saudi leaders were nearing a normalization agreement with Israel in 2023, just before the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7 of that year. Since then, however, talks have been paused. Saudi leaders now say they would want guarantees of an eventual Palestinian state, and Saudi public opinion has soured toward Israel because of its handling of the war in Gaza. Any nuclear deal tied to Saudi-Israel diplomatic breakthroughs has seemed remote.
"The Civil Nuclear Deal (There will be no enrichment of material!) being made between the United States Department of Energy and Saudi Arabia, which pertains only to non-military use such as the ones that Iran and UAE (and others) already have, will be approved," Trump wrote on Truth Social on Thursday. "But is totally subject to Saudi Arabia joining the very respected and successful Abraham Accords."
The Abraham Accords, signed in 2020, normalized diplomatic and economic ties between Israel and Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. Morocco later joined. Saudi Arabia is a heavyweight of the Middle East. Boosting ties to Israel would be a major shift in a region long beset by religious tensions.
The president's assertion that there would be no nuclear enrichment as part of the deal appears to contradict how people familiar with the deal have described it. Most of the deal's details remain private.
The president will need to submit the agreement to Congress, starting a 90-day clock for approval. That move could take place as early as today.
It is unlikely Congress will be able to stop the deal, even if there is substantial opposition. The president could veto their disapproval, and opponents are unlikely to have the votes to override him.
But Trump's new condition could stymie the deal even before it gets off the ground.
Trump had not spoken to Mohammed in the hours since the social media announcement, Leavitt said. Nor did he speak to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, she said.
It was just the latest example of the president's on-again, off-again approach to policymaking. Last week, Trump said that the United States would impose a 20 percent toll on shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, despite months in which his own administration said that doing so would be a violation of international law.
A day later, and following widespread condemnation, he abandoned the idea, saying he would make investment deals with Persian Gulf countries instead.
The agreement that Energy Secretary Chris Wright and his Saudi counterpart signed Wednesday lays out conditions for nuclear energy cooperation and includes stipulations aimed at preventing the spread of nuclear weapons.
But unlike other recent deals with countries that do not already have a domestic enrichment program, this one would not impose the same strict conditions aimed at preventing them from moving in that direction.
The initial announcement of the deal on Wednesday drew condemnation in Israel, where leaders fear a Saudi nuclear program could spur a regional arms race. Israelis worry that Turkey and others could also seek nuclear enrichment programs, ultimately leading to far more countries in the region that have a pathway to a nuclear weapon.
Israel has an undeclared nuclear weapons program, in addition to civilian nuclear power capability.
"Saudi Arabia's joining of the Abraham Accords would be an historic leap forward for peace in the Middle East," Netanyahu said Thursday in a statement.
The Trump administration has offered little information about the agreement's contents. Three people familiar with the details said that it is designed with safeguards to keep the Saudis from enriching nuclear fuel to weapons-grade level.
But they said it exempts the Saudis from aggressive international inspections required in nuclear reactor deals with other countries, including the United Arab Emirates. Instead, sensitive inspections would be executed by American teams under terms spelled out in the agreement, which was initially worked out when the crown prince visited Washington in November.
The people spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the agreement publicly.
"These agreements reflect our two nations' shared commitment to strengthening U.S.-Saudi commercial relations, delivering prosperity at home and security to our allies abroad," Energy Secretary Chris Wright said in a Wednesday statement.
Trump had to sign a separate national security waiver to allow the deal to move forward, since it does not include conventional international inspections, according to the people familiar with the deal.
Under the Saudi deal, the two countries agree to study for two years whether enrichment on Saudi soil is feasible and necessary.
Proponents say the deal with the Saudis gives the U.S. an opportunity to control the expansion of the enrichment network on its own terms and limit the risk of nuclear proliferation. The deal requires that any enrichment on Saudi soil would be controlled by U.S. companies using technology that is not shared with the Saudis, in an effort to limit the possibility that Saudi Arabia could use the program to develop a nuclear weapon.
Nonproliferation experts have long warned against such a deal, saying that safeguards are unlikely to hold for the long term.
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