Posts Tagged: Israel Saudi Arabia
From Mecca to Jerusalem: Does More Bloodshed Await?
JNS.org - The dispute that is now rocking the Muslim world is not about whether the Prophet Muhammad’s famous “Night Journey” actually took place or...
Netanyahu’s ‘Secret’ Trip to Saudi Arabia
JNS.org - Despite the purposeful fog surrounding it, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and US Secretary of...
Would Biden’s Middle East Proposals End Any Prospect for Saudi-Israeli Normalization?
The Abraham Accords were the product of a slowly developing structural shift in Middle East geopolitics that led to an alignment of interests between the...
Saudi Arabia Is Modernizing Fast
I recently took a trip to Saudi Arabia (SA) with the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. I came away from this trip...
Israel Could Be Key to 2020 Middle East Geopolitics
The geopolitics of the Middle East are changing rapidly, and competition among the key players is at a peak. The region straddles the three continents...
Israeli Arabs Welcomed in Saudi Arabia: Diplomatic Breakthrough or Cynical Ploy?
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MBS)’s calls to invite Israeli Arabs to live and work in Saudi Arabia could be either a diplomatic breakthrough...
Israel’s Budding Relationship With a Group of Arab States
Though it is largely motivated by mutual concerns about surging Iranian imperialism, the strengthening of Israel’s relationship with the Cooperation Council for the Arab States...
A Flight Guide to Middle East Politics
A burning question in the Middle East today is the firmness of the tacit alliance among Israel, Saudi Arabia, and other Arab Sunni states, centered...
A New Era in Israel-Gulf State Relations?
JNS.org - United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Anwar Gargash was quoted by the English-language Abu Dhabi newspaper The National last week as saying, “Many, many years...
Does Saudi Arabia Really Want Regime Change in Iran?
Officially, both Saudi Arabia and the US, which withdrew last year from the 2015 international accord that curbs the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program and imposed...
The Folly of Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’
Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu, and numerous US officials have all warned that both sides of the forthcoming Trump administration's “deal of the century” are going...
Did Netanyahu Turn Down a Saudi Peace Offer?
Barak Ravid has a phenomenal scoop, published in Axios: On the last day of the 2014 Gaza War, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a secret meeting...
Israel’s Alliance with the Sunni World Is Unreliable and Unstable
JNS.org - In recent weeks, officials in Israel, the United States, and the Arab world have been more outspoken about an emerging alliance between Israel...
Trump Is Wrong: Embracing Saudi Arabia Doesn’t Help Israel or America
President Donald Trump recently said, "Israel would be in big trouble without Saudi Arabia," indicating that Israel would somehow be forced to "leave" the region if...
