US Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently told Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer that Israel is misreading the situation if it thinks that it can get the US-Saudi-Israeli deal without significant Israeli concessions to the Palestinian Authority. However, this is not what the Saudis are telling the Israelis.
For the USA and the KSA is a deal absolutely essential, even existential in nature, considering the Iranian threat against both nations. Saudi Arabia cannot defend itself on its own and the survival of the US superpower is threatened by the prospect of Iranian biological weapons terrorist attacks against major American cities and so the Israelis and the Arabs must jointly together with America deter Iran from launching combined apocalyptic regional conquest and apocalyptic overseas mass WMD terrorism.
The Israelis know all this and recognize that a grand deal is inevitable and that it is only a matter of time until it is concluded. Israel certainly needs peace with the Saudis but in the meantime survives quite well without it. Riyadh is using its temporary diplomatic leverage to influence Washington to pressure Jerusalem into providing concessions to Ramallah. But more than that, the Biden administration is quite willingly coerced with the excuse of wanting the support of progressives in Congress for the confirmation of an eventual treaty.
But the reality is that Israeli, Saudi and American interests converge, quite unlike Palestinian interests as articulated by their leaders, which frankly do not. Therefore, it is not Jerusalem which is misreading the situation, Washington is.
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