No Palestinian State? No Recognition of Israel. Says MBS

It's been the official line of most Arab states since the 1970s, even though many of them submitted to US pressure in recent years and recognized a genocidal Israel that is exterminating the Palestinians and refusing to recognize their right to self-determination. 

But there is one major holdout that could tip the balance toward genuine peace in the region, one in which both Israelis and Palestinians each live in full freedom and dignity in their own patch of land, and that is Saudi Arabia.

But the primitive fundamentalist Zionist terrorists of Netanyahu don't want a Palestinian state. Absent a Palestinian state, the much vaunted Abraham Accords are likely to crumble in the foreseeable future, as the Gulf States and other mendacious Arab countries, paid and bribed by the US, will eventually walk out of them as the savagery of Zionist Israel continues in Palestine.
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Saudi Arabia will not recognise Israel without Palestinian state, says Crown Prince
Reuters
Wed, September 18, 2024

DUBAI (Reuters) -Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Wednesday said the kingdom would not recognise Israel without a Palestinian state and strongly condemned the "crimes of the Israeli occupation" against the Palestinian people.

"The kingdom will not stop its tireless work towards the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, and we affirm that the kingdom will not establish diplomatic relations with Israel without that," the crown prince, known as MbS, said.

After the eruption of war last October between Israel and the militant Palestinian group Hamas that rules Gaza, Saudi Arabia put on ice U.S.-backed plans for the kingdom to normalise ties with Israel, two sources familiar with Riyadh's thinking said earlier this year, in a swift reordering of its diplomatic priorities.

MbS, Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler, had said just weeks before the fighting broke out that Riyadh was getting closer to a deal.

The two sources told Reuters there would be some delay in the U.S.-backed talks on normalisation of Saudi-Israel ties, which is seen as a key step for the kingdom to secure what it considers the real prize of a U.S. defence pact in exchange.

MbS made the remarks at an annual speech to the advisory Shura Council, which he gave on behalf of his father, King Salman.

The council swore an oath of office before MbS on Wednesday before he addressed it.

(Reporting by Nayera Abdallah and Nadine Awadalla; Writing by Yousef Saba; Editing by Jon Boyle and Alex Richardson)