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Saudi Arabia has launched a horrific state media campaigning against Benjamin Netanyahu, pointing to growing frustration in the prime minister of the Israeli Prime Minister and Gaza in the Gulf state.
Abnormally hostile barrage, which can only be published with authority approval Saudi Arabia Normalizing relations with Israel, despite Riyadh’s insistence, that it will depend on the establishment of the Palestinian state.
Was trigger by attack Netanyah Making a joke in an interview last week about creating a Palestinian state in Saudi Arabia.
On Israel’s Channel 1, a presenter mistakenly said that the Saudi state between Saudi Arabia and Israel would not make any progress in normalizing relations, Netanyahu had corrected him: “[You mean] A Palestinian state ”.
“If you do not want that the Palestinian state may be in Saudi Arabia,” he adds. “They have many regions.”
The state media reacted violently, reflecting anger that was mixed between senior officers and public for months.
In a report on State News Channel Al Ekhbaria, Netanyahu describes Netanyahu as “Zionist and the son of a Zionist.. He who inherited extremism in his gene”. It added: “There is only one face or ugly face in the profession. It has only one face and This is Benjamin Netanyahu.
The Saudi-owned Al-Arabia Channel has promoted a talk show so that the presenter raised questions about Netanyahu’s mental state. “It was probably the case of hallucinations?” Anchor asked.
Israeli, a columnist in Okaz Daily, called the Prime Minister’s comment “foolish and ridiculous”, while the government -backed scholars on social media called Netanyahu “Rotten One”, which is a vocabulary in his name in Arabic.
Saudi anger is expected to open up with the pressure of US President Donald Trump to normalize relations with Israel. Like other Arab states, Riyadh has spread to Trump that the Palestinians should be forced from Gaza.
Saudi Arabia was closing a three-faced agreement with the Biden administration before the October 723 attack on Hamas. Kingdom agreed to formal diplomatic relations with Israel in exchange for assistance in the US Defense Agreement and Nuclear Program.
Gaza War removed those plans. Riyad has never taken normalization from the table, but has increased the behavior of the war in Israel’s Gaza, and has made its position even more tough, Israel insisted that irreversible steps need to be taken towards the two-state solution.
In September, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman went ahead and told the consultant Shura Council that an independent Palestinian state, including Gaza and the West Bank, would not recognize East Jerusalem as its capital Israel.
Saudi officials have expressed the disappointment of what they see as offensive and guessing comments by Netanyahu and its right-right allies that states will not only accept the displaced Palestinians, but will also naturally accept them naturally that will accept their generalization conditions. Independent Palestinian state.
“There is a complete contempt for the Saudi officials’ statement, [and this makes the Saudis appear as] Basically not credible people, people who are bilingual and very conspiracy. This is definitely a resentment, “Dubai-based Think-Tank ORF Saudi analysts in the Middle East and director of research and geopolitics Aziz Alghashian.
“They are [Riyadh] Trying to use this opportunity to give Netanyahu a taste of his own medicine. “
Netanyahu has claimed that Saudi Arabia will follow the UAE’s step in the UAE, which has established diplomatic relations with Israel in 2021 with Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco.
These agreements, which were sealed in Trump’s first term and dubbed the Abraham Accords, provided negligence for the Palestinians.
Trump says he wants to extend the treaties to include Saudi Arabia, which is considered as the leader of the Sunni Muslim world.
Prince Mohammed enjoyed the relationship with Trump during his first term, and some indicated that Riyadh wanted to lift where he left. Crown Prince told the President this month that Kingdom had planned Invest more than $ 600bn More than four years in the United States.
But Trump said that the Arab states shocked last week should not be Gaza Palestinians are emptyHowever, it is also that the United States strip should be accepted. A man known in the matter said that Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal Bin Farhan postponed a scheduled visit in Washington after Trump announced his plan last week.
In a speaking statement about 4 pm local time, Kingdom also quickly rejected Trump’s plan: “Palestinian people are impossible to achieve permanent and justice without gaining their legitimate rights according to international resolution, both former and current US administration. The “
Ali Shihabi, a Saudi commentator near the Royal Court, said, “The entire ship is now in the wrong direction.”
“People were hoping that Trump would come and we would move on to a two-state track, but Trump took it in a completely different direction and trying to take advantage of Netanyahu,” he added.
“Israelis have a powerful PR machine, and when they say that Saudis are giving us different messages behind the closed door, Riyadh realized that it would be much more active in disputing it.”
The Saudi leadership is also concerned about the anger that a young man in the Gaza war encouraged the Arabs.
“Saudi officials are definitely responsible for growing people among young Saudis,” said Elham Fakhro, a research fellow of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Middle East Initiative. ”
Additional Report of James Shoter in Jerusalem in London and Andrew England
