American journalist’s warning to Biden and Bin Salman: Don’t let Netanyahu think you’re a fool!
“Thomas Friedman” columnist and reporter for “The New York Times” newspaper wrote in an analysis about the normalization of relations between Riyadh and Tel Aviv: The President of the United States and the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia should not allow Benjamin Netanyahu to include them as useful fools.
New York Times analyst Thomas Friedman published an editorial yesterday, Tuesday, September 5, in which he called on the United States and Saudi Arabia to enter into a normalization agreement between Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing coalition in the occupied territories. Do not become Tel Aviv and Riyadh.
According to the report of the “I24” website, Friedman wrote to “Joe Biden”, the President of the United States, and “Mohammed bin Salman”, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia: “Don’t let Netanyahu put you among the idiots who are useful to him; It will be impossible for Riyadh to normalize relations with an “extraordinary state of Israel” in any case.
This American analyst emphasizes that Benjamin Netanyahu, despite proposing a plan that “weakens the authority of the Supreme Court in Israel”, is still trying to maintain contacts with the United States and reach an agreement with Saudi Arabia; That too with only outward gestures towards the Palestinians and in practice, the continuation of the “annexation” process of the West Bank!
Friedman further wrote: Through this agreement, the Prime Minister of Israel seeks to make Saudi Arabia pay for the peace and Joe Biden to sanctify it… This agreement should be rejected by the President of the United States and Mohammed bin Salman in general.
The American analyst added: The agreement that Biden and Bin Salman are expected to insist on could be based on the condition that in exchange for normalizing relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia, Israel should stop the settlement process in the West Bank in the areas that are needed to form a state. Palestine was determined to stop; In this case, the negotiation of normalization can be done.
Friedman continued: This condition is in line with returning most of Israel’s illegal settlements to the process of the previous agreements and, most importantly, emphasizing the transfer of Israeli lands from Area “C” in the West Bank to Areas “B” and “A” under the Palestinian Authority. As defined in the Oslo Accords.
At the end of this note, the American analyst wrote, calling on the Biden administration to behave more appropriately with the Tel Aviv cabinet, “Netanyahu has unilaterally changed the principles of the relationship between us [US and Israel] and put us to the test. The time has come for the United States to make clear the Netanyahu government’s status with a choice: annexation or normalization. In response, Saudi Arabia will simply say: No!
Before Friedman, the Israeli writer and analyst “Ben Kaspit” spoke about the unprecedented collapse of the communication channels between Tel Aviv and Washington on Friday, September 1st, on the American website “Al-Monitor”. According to him, the policy of Netanyahu, the prime minister of the occupying regime, in announcing the ban on meeting the regime’s cabinet ministers with their American counterparts, is the source of challenges in the relations between Tel Aviv and Washington.
