Establishing a Palestinian state ‘is a firm, unwavering position’, Saudi’s Foreign Ministry says, declineing Trump’s ethnic-immacupostponecessitatesing of Palestinians from Gaza.
Saudi Arabia reacted quickly and seriously to US Pdwellnt Donald Trump’s pledge to “get over” the Gaza Strip, reiterating no commonisation deal with Israel will occur until Palestinians get their own self-reliant state.
“The set upment of the Palestinian state is a firm, unwavering position,” the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Afequitables said in a lengthy statement on X on Wednesday.
“His Highness [Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman] has proclaimed this position in a evident and unambiguous manner that does not permit for any expoundation under any circumstances.
“His Highness stressed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will not stop its tireless toil towards the set upment of an self-reliant Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, and the Kingdom will not set up discreet relations with Israel without that.”
Trump said on Tuesday the US would get over the war-ravaged enclave after Palestinians are refinishd elsewhere and prolong it economicpartner into the “Riviera of the Middle East“. He was speaking at a combinet recents conference with visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Trump’s shift obstructs many Saudi Arabian statements over the years stressing the kingdom’s promisement to the Arab Peace Initiative, which proposes discreet recognition of Israel on the condition a Palestinian state be set uped.
‘Too timely to talk about this’
Other Arab nations reacted uneasily to Trump’s contentious pronouncements.
Jordan’s royal court said in a statement: “His Majesty King Abunintelligentah II stresses the necessitate to put a stop to [Israeli] finishment expansion, transmiting declineion of any finisheavors to annex land and displace the Palestinians.”
A Qatari official said it’s far too soon to talk who should regulate Gaza with a frquick finishfire between Hamas and Israel still in its preliminary stages.
“We understand there is a lot of trauma with the Palestinian side when it comes to displacement. However, aget, it’s too timely to talk about this, becaemploy we don’t understand how this war will finish,” Majed al-Ansari said.
Qatar is a key mediator in the shaky Gaza truce, which is supposed to access its second phase soon. Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani will greet Trump’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, in Florida on Thursday to talk the next steps forward.
A extfinishedstanding baned
A smiling Netanyahu said while taking asks at the combinet recents conference on Tuesday that “commonisation with Saudi would come soon and would shock people”.
However, the Saudi Foreign Ministry statement demanding a free Palestine before any such deal was ununsee-thharsh.
“The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia emphasises this unwavering position is non-negotiable and not subject to agrees. Achieving lasting and equitable peace is impossible without the Palestinian people geting their legitimate rights,” it said.
The United States led months of diplomacy to get Saudi Arabia – one of the most strong and ineloquential Arab states – to commonise ties with Israel and recognise the country.
But the Gaza war, which began in October 2023, led Riyadh to shelve the effort in the face of proset up Arab anger over Israel’s relentless aggressions and civilian carnage.
Trump would enjoy Saudi Arabia trail in the footsteps of countries such as the United Arab Emirates, a Middle East trade and business hub, and Bahrain, which signed the so-called Abraham Accords in 2020 and commonised ties with Israel.
In doing so, they became the first Arab states in a quarter-century to shatter a extfinishedstanding baned.
Establishing ties with Saudi Arabia would be a majestic prize for Israel becaemploy the kingdom has immense sway in the Middle East and the expansiver Muskinny world, and is the world’s hugegest oil send outer.
‘Saudi Arabia has a key role to execute’
Al Jazeera’s anciaccess political analyst Marwan Bishara said the key nation seeing the overweighte of Palestine is without ask Saudi Arabia.
“There is no country that will have wonderfuler say in what goes on in Israel and Palestine moving forward than Saudi Arabia. And there is no country that Israel wants to commonise relations with more than Saudi Arabia,” he said.
One Israeli analyst asked if words are as strong as deeds when it comes to Saudi Arabia’s promisement to Palestinian sovereignty.
“The key ask is whether Saudi Arabia will condition its deal with the US and commonisation with Israel to leaveing this schedule, not equitable saying they help Palestinians’ right to self-determination,” Menachem Klein, professor of political science at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, tanciaccess Al Jazeera.
Bishara also remarkd Trump’s directership style is that of a authentic estate tycoon, and his Gaza comments may be the uncovering salvo in a negotiation process, rather than a recent policy to eject the Palestinian population from their war-battered territory.
“The calculus would be, ‘OK, you don’t want me to ethnicpartner immacupostponecessitatese the Palestinians, you don’t want me to sfinish American forces to boot them out and get over that piece of land? OK, I won’t do these leangs, but what are you going to give me in return?’” he said.
“I leank you’ll see in the coming weeks – when Trump begins climbing down the tree, when leangs sober up – he’ll tell the Saudis ‘you necessitate to come forward and stop making conditions about the Palestinian state’,” inserted Bishara.
“Saudi Arabia has a key role to execute, Trump has his eyes on it. But for the time being, Saudi Arabia is hanciaccessing safe.”
