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US to push Saudi-Israel ties
Australian Jewish News ^ | 6/11/2023 | Jacob Magid

Posted on 06/11/2023 2:40:24 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan

The Biden administration will soon establish a new position aimed at expanding the Abraham Accords, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday, while also promising that Washington would continue to push back against settlement building or other activities that could endanger a two-state solution with the Palestinians.

The idea for a point person tasked with shepherding normalisation between Israel and its Arab neighbours has reportedly been in the works for the past several months. The announcement comes as the Biden administration has begun to prioritise brokering a diplomatic agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia.

“Israel’s further integration in the region contributes to a more stable, a more secure and more prosperous region,” Blinken told the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). “That’s why President Biden has made it a cornerstone of his Middle East policy.”

The Secretary of State did not elaborate further on the nature of the new position, but a US official confirmed to The Times of Israel last month that former US ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro’s name has been floated for the post.

Blinken’s appearance came a day before he was slated to travel to Saudi Arabia, where he said he would raise Israel normalisation during his meetings with government officials.

“The United States has a real national security interest in promoting normalisation between Israel and Saudi Arabia,” he said.

Saudi Arabia is seeking several large concessions from the US in exchange for normalisation. Riyadh has also made clear that any agreement with Israel will have to include a significant gesture for the Palestinians, a senior US official told The Times of Israel in May.

Meanwhile, National Unity chairman Benny Gantz said on Tuesday that he would not join Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hardline government in order to help push a ­normalisation agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia over the finish line, but that he would be willing to back it from the opposition.

Netanyahu’s coalition partners, particularly the far-right Religious Zionism, Otzma Yehudit and Noam factions, are ideologically opposed to advancing Palestinian sovereignty, which may force the premier to look for alternate allies to meet potential Saudi demands for normalising ties.

“I think that peace is always a good trend for the State of Israel, and if it needed my back-up for that, it will get my back-up for that, but I will not get into this government,” Gantz said during a webinar with the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abrahamaccords; daniel927; peaceandsecurity; twostatesolution
Gotta shudder to think what deal would emerge via Biden, probably even worse than what China would broker. Please wait for Trump to come back and resume work on this matter!
1 posted on 06/11/2023 2:40:24 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
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To: Right Wing Vegan

The Saudis will tell them to f*** off until Trump comes back.


2 posted on 06/11/2023 2:46:49 PM PDT by struggle
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To: Right Wing Vegan
[Abraham Accords

a two-state solution with the Palestinians
.]

This will end badly. Few will understand where this is going. However, it is definitely going to happen.

'Peace and Security'

Now for a canned post (I am posting this as further proof of the times we are living in):

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THE FOLLOWING IS FROM SOMETHING I HAVE SAVED FOR THESE TOPICS - SO THAT THOSE WITH EYES TO SEE AND EARS TO HEAR MAY SEE AND HEAR

The real shame of it, I'm very sorry to say, is the following. The man got further than anyone, using the exact words the Scripture has prophesied. Words used by Hillary, Barack, Bibi, United Nations people, Tony Blair, etc. etc. etc. This (when confirmed by the Man of Lawlessness) will unleash the 7-years of Tribulation upon the Earth and there will be no shutting it down. (And in the middle of that 7 years, the Mark of the Beast (Revelation 13:16-18, Revelation 14:9-12). Then shall be Great Tribulation such as never was.) Not until the actual Second Coming of Jesus Christ to this Earth.

And then shall the "god of this world" be finally dethroned (AFTER the Second Coming of Jesus Christ), along with the kings of the Earth that followed him.

The following is composed from a previous post of mine. This is where this old world is headed my friends; it will not be stopped; for it was prophesied from old. It will....wait for it...come to pass. Exactly as the Lord has prophesied. All events will eventually (duh) lead to the Scripture being fulfilled. I can only pray to be worthy by the blood of Christ (Luke 21:34-36; Hebrews 1:3).

I hate to post it but my duty to the Lord comes first (in whatever small way it might wake some people up) - >>>Now I DON'T know that he's THE guy<<< - simply pointing out that the groundwork is being laid - EXACTLY as God's Holy Word in the Bible predicted.

1st Thessalonians 5:3

Revised Standard Version

3 When people say, “There is
PEACE AND SECURITY,”
then sudden destruction will come upon them as travail comes upon a woman with child, and there will be no escape.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Thessalonians%205%3A3&version=RSV



https://www.israelhayom.com/2019/05/20/kushner-confirms-bahrain-economic-workshop-in- apparent-first-part-of-us-peace-plan/




3 posted on 06/11/2023 4:10:24 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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Obamanation Amateur Hour continues.

4 posted on 06/11/2023 4:22:37 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpers are Republicans the same way Liz Cheney is a Republican.)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Israel and Saudi Arabia already communicate with one another. There is nothing for the US to do here. Butt out. The two of them can handle it and are handling it.


5 posted on 06/11/2023 4:30:47 PM PDT by marron
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US to push Saudi-Israel ties

Biden will get the Nobel. Just watch.

6 posted on 06/11/2023 4:39:46 PM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President. A conservative who fights and wins.)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Saudi-Israel ties, just in for Father’s Day!


7 posted on 06/11/2023 4:43:24 PM PDT by johnthebaptistmoore (The world continues to be stuck in a "all leftist, all of the time" funk. BUNK THE FUNK!)
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Ping

Daniel 9:27
King James Version

27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.


8 posted on 06/11/2023 4:51:26 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel+9%3A27&version=KJV


9 posted on 06/11/2023 4:53:45 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Drew68

But Trump didn’t even though he managed almost a miracle with North Korea.


10 posted on 06/11/2023 4:55:41 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!)
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To: metmom
But Trump didn’t even though he managed almost a miracle with North Korea.

Of course not.

Trump brokered the Abraham Accords, the greatest advancement in Middle East peace since the creation of Israel.

He got nothing. Not even a consideration.

Obama got a Nobel for doing nothing more than get himself elected president.

And just watch. Biden will get a Nobel for Saudi entering the accords even thought he had nothing to do with it. He'll be celebrated as a peacemaker and Trump won't even be mentioned.

11 posted on 06/11/2023 5:08:53 PM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President. A conservative who fights and wins.)
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Biden will get the Nobel. Just watch.

Or at least lamestream media accolades in time for the election. That may be why the press here overhyped the Iran-Saudi thing, so Biden's magnificence will just scintillate when following up with any contribution to Israel-Saudi relations lolz

12 posted on 06/11/2023 5:35:50 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan (Conservatism's last hope, last recourse, in fact last expedient, against the libertarian hordes.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Obama on steroids despite the senile Biden


13 posted on 06/11/2023 6:34:35 PM PDT by Conservat1
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14 posted on 06/12/2023 5:44:56 AM PDT by SJackson (he who controls the schools, controls the world, 1870s France)
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