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How Close Is Israel-Saudi Normalization?

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JL;DR SUMMARY Neri Zilber and Aziz Alghashian delve into the evolving dynamics of Middle Eastern diplomacy, focusing on the prospects for Israel-Saudi normalization. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

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Donald TrumpNetanyahuPalestinian StatehoodGaza ConflictNormalizationMiddle East DiplomacySaudi Foreign PolicyIsrael Saudi RelationsRegional SecurityU.S. Saudi Relations

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Israel
"Content: Shalom and marhaba and welcome to the Israel Policy Pod."
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
"how the past 16 months have looked from Riyadh and the Gulf"
Gaza, Palestinian Territories
"a possible conclusion to the Gaza War"
Saudi Arabia
"And even, dare we say, renewed Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy."
United Kingdom
"but I'll remind our listeners, last time you were on, I said this very clearly, we usually get a very heavily Israeli or American or, in some cases, British or European perspective on all these very important issues"
Lebanon
"and by the way, not just Israel and Gaza, so Lebanon."
Yemen
"When you see the Houthis are getting hostile on the Saudi borders"
Iran
"When you have the exchanges between Iran and Israel, this is tremendously anxious."
Malaysia
"And this is a result from the Abraham Accords, which is kind of, it gave the blueprint of saying, well, if you want us to really normalize relations with Israel, then there's something that the United States has to offer."
United States
"but it's really important to get the view from the Arab world as well."
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"And you also wrote a very interesting op-ed that was translated into Hebrew in Haaretz, the Haaretz Daily here, titled, Dear Israelis, Your Government Is Misleading You."
Egypt
"is a precondition of anything the fact that this gaza war needs to end"
Jordan
"Trump had some, let's call it inflammatory comments this past Saturday to the effect that he wanted to maybe clean out quote unquote, that's his quote, Gaza and move 1.5 million Palestinians to either Egypt, Jordan"
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
"this is kind of the overarching aspect the practicalities of this is another thing the fiscal aspect we talked about that saudis notwithstanding their economic reconstruction and their prudence their fiscal prudence are still willing to play a role financially but they cannot participate in any reconstruction when the conditions may lead to the destruction of what they're reconstructing again in two years time so therefore there needs to be a root cause or a solution that addresses the root of this issue and even when they welcome the ceasefire that came this is what they mentioned in the statement that we hope that this is now a beginning of a process that addresses the root cause of the conflict in itself so that's the the second part that they were going to play is that you know will they have security services and will they have operate in a security aspect and uh in some way now they haven't denied it but of course they haven't opened uh kind of eager to do this because i think it's this particular role is very difficult the reason being is that okay saudi is a big country and and it doesn't have many people in it the security services in itself is i think the only time they took part in any kind of official theater is when they were in the financial part of the financial part of the or operation was perhaps in Bahrain in 2011 Operation Gulf Shield."

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