Israel 'normalization' takes back while Trump announces Saudi businesses | Donald Trump News

Washington, DC – The President of the United States, Donald Trump, says that the production of formal relationships between Saudi Arabia and Israel would be a “dream”, but he wants the kingdom to do so in his “own time”.

The White House made a flood of economic and defense pacts with Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, in which hundreds of billions of dollars were involved, but every mention of Israel was noticeable in the announcements.

The so-called “normalization drive” between Saudi Arabia and Israel dominated his predecessor Joe Bidens approach to the region, but the current US president shifts elsewhere on the analysts.

“The Trump administration has made it clear that they are ready to advance important agreements with Saudi Arabia without the previous state of the Saudi Israel normalization,” said Anna Jacobs, a non-resident scholarship holder at the Arabic Institute of the Gulf States.

“This is probably reflected in the growing frustration in the Trump government with Israeli military actions in the entire region, especially in the Gaza.”

“Time is not right”

Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, scholarship holder of the Middle East at the Baker Institute, also said that Trump recognized that with the continuing war in Gaza and Israel's refusal to be negotiated by the establishment of a Palestinian state, the “time not correct” for a Saudi Arabia Israel pact, despite biding in the production of making an agreement.

“I think the White House has finally recognized that a normalization agreement is not possible at this point,” Coates Ulrichsen told Al Jazera.

During his first term, Trump, the Abraham Agreement between Israel and several Arab countries, including the United Arab Emirates, managed to convey the formal relationships with the US allies regardless of the Palestinian question.

However, the agreements were unsuccessful to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which was documented by the outbreak of the war in Gaza in October 2023.

But before the beginning of the war, Israel had intensified his military attacks against Palestinians and expanded illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, which further dimmer the prospects of a two-state solution for the conflict.

Despite the obvious shortcomings of the agreements, Biden made the addition of Saudi Arabia to Abraham a focus of his Agenda of the Middle East, and US officials said that they had worked on securing a deal until the last days of administration, even when the war raged against Gaza.

Biden repeatedly claimed without evidence that Hamas started its attack on October 7 against Israel in 2023 to thwart an agreement between Saudis and Israelis.

One day before his office, Biden said that his guidelines in the Middle East formed an opportunity for “the future of the normalization and integration of Israel with all its Arab neighbors, including Saudi Arabia”.

“Out of the table”

US officials and media reports said that bidens deal, which never came about, brought a security pact between Riad and Washington and made Saudi Arabia available to found a civilian nuclear program in exchange for normalization with Israel.

A big sticking point in this push was the widely defined support of Saudi -Arabic support for the Arabic peace initiative in 2002, which raises the recognition of Israel in the establishment of a viable Palestinian state.

The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu categorically rejected the framework “Land for Peace” and instead pushed for shops with Arab countries that handle the Palestinians.

“This Israeli government does not even offer lip service for the idea of ​​a two-state solution, which Saudi Arabia makes seriously impossible for normalization,” said Jacobs from the Arab Institute for Gulf States.

“The Trump administration seems to have understood that it is at least for the time being off the table.”

In Riad, Trump announced an agreement to deepen the security cooperation with Saudi Arabia.

The contract for $ 142 billion will provide Saudi Arabia with “state-of-the-art war discussions and services” of US companies, said the White House.

It also includes “extensive training courses and support to build the capacity of the Saudi armed forces, including the improvement of the Saudi services and military medical services,” added.

While the weapons and training business do not have a NATO-like mutual defense pact that may have been included as part of an agreement with Israel, according to experts, they take a bite of a bite.

“Today's announcements deepen the connections between Saudi Arabia and US security and defense interests,” said Coates Ulrichsen.

US Israel Rift?

Trump's visit to the region, since Israel has promised, not only continues to continue, but also killed the devastating war against Gaza, which, according to health authorities, killed more than 52,900 Palestinians, has killed more than 52,900 Palestinians.

Khaled Elgindy, a guest scientist at Georgetown University, found that Riyadh described Israeli atrocities in Gaza as a “genocide”.

“The Saudis do not harden their words; they don't hold back,” said Elgindy to Al Jazeera. “You can't move with Israel in the direction of normalization now after accusing Israel of the genocide. That would be just ridiculous.”

After his trip to Saudi Arabia, Trump will drive to Pope Francis 'funeral last month as part of the first planned foreign trips to his presidency to Qatar and the United Arab Emirates since participating in Pope Francis' funeral. Israel is not on the route.

For Coates Ulrichsen and others, Trump's obvious Snub Israel reflects the discomfort in the US Israeli alliance.

“It can be a signal that the White House is currently seeing a lot of added value in the deepening of commercial and strategic relationships with the Gulf States because Israel is involved in conflicts,” Coates Ulrichsen told Al Jazera.

Israel excluded

The tensions between the Trump administration and the Netanyahu government have become clearer in the past few weeks despite the military and diplomatic support of Israel from the US US government.

Trump confirmed the talks with Iran about his nuclear program during the visit to Netanyahu in the White House, despite the opposition of the Israeli guide against negotiations with Tehran.

Last week, the US President also explained a ceasefire with the Houthis. The deal did not call for the Jemeni group's attacks against Israel.

When Trump spoke in Riad on Tuesday, the Houthis fired another rocket in Israel – part of a campaign that they say that they should put an end to the war against Gaza.

The Trump government also worked with mediators in Qatar and Egypt to secure the release of the US citizen of Edan Alexander, who served in the Israeli military and was captured by Hamas during the attack on Israel on October 7th. According to Israeli media reports, Israel was excluded from these conversations.

Different visions

Elgindy from Georgetown University said that the apparent tensions were more than a “bump on the street”, but their impact on the relationship between the USA and Israeli remains.

“Trump makes it clear that we and Israeli interests are not and the same,” he said. “And that is very important because bids didn't do that.”

At the moment, Trump's US military aid is still obliged for Israel, even if it increases its bombing and hunger campaign in Gaza.

And the US President has progressed with his approach to critics of Israel at home, especially on the College Campus.

However, experts say that by skipping Israel during his exit in the Middle East and the determination of normalization, Trump progresses his own vision for the region.

On Tuesday, Trump praised the golf leaders, of whom he said they were building a Middle East, “in which people of different nations, religions and creeds build cities together and do not bomb each other out of existence”.

This future seems to contradict what Israel seems to be looking for: to claim the hegemony about the region with long -term bomb campaigns, including in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen.

“A very strong signal is sent that a stable, wealthy Middle East – in the government's views by the Gulf States – is a much more desirable result than perhaps the Israeli view of the Middle East, which apparently escalates a conflicts forever,” said Coates Ulrichsen.