RIYADH (Kayhan Intl.) – A senior member of the Saudi royal family said on Friday that Saudi Arabia’s price for normalizing relations with the Zionist regime is the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state with al-Quds as its capital.
Prince Turki al-Faisal was apparently responding to U.S. President Donald Trump who said on Wednesday he expected Saudi Arabia to join a deal announced last week by the Zionist regime and the United Arab Emirates to normalize diplomatic ties.
The surprise deal between the Zionist regime and the UAE last week is the third such accord the regime has struck with an Arab country, after Egypt and Jordan, and raises the prospect of similar accords with other pro-Western Persian Gulf states.
"Any Arab state that is considering following the UAE should demand in return a price, and it should be an expensive price,” Prince Turki wrote in the Saudi newspaper Asharq al-Awsat.
"The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has set a price for concluding peace between Israel and the Arabs - it is the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state with Jerusalem (al-Quds) as capital, as provided for by the initiative of the late King Abdullah.”
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan also said on Wednesday that Riyadh would not follow the UAE and establish ties with the Zionist regime until the occupying regime had sealed an accord with the Palestinians.
Prince Faisal bin Farhan told reporters on a visit to Berlin that "peace must be achieved with the Palestinians” on the basis of international agreements as a condition for any normalization of relations with the Zionist regime.
"Once that is achieved all things are possible,” he said.
Despite official statements, Saudi Arabia has also expanded secret ties with the regime under the crown prince, the son of King Salman, who is viewed by many as the Kingdom’s de facto ruler.
Back in 2018, Saudi Arabia opened its airspace for a commercial flight to the Zionist regime with the start of a new Air India route between India and the occupied territories, although El Al Israel Airlines might not use Saudi airspace for eastward flights.
Critics say Saudi Arabia’s flirtation with the regime would undermine global efforts to isolate the Zionist regime and affect the Palestinian cause in general. They say Riyadh has gone too far in its cooperation with the regime as a way of deterring Iran as an influential player in the region.
In another sign of warming ties between the Zionist regime and Saudi Arabia, the occupying regime has officially allowed people in the occupied territories to travel to Saudi Arabia.
Until now, Saudi Arabia, the Arab world’s biggest economy, has maintained a conspicuous silence over the UAE-Zionist deal.
Palestinians protested the deal as a betrayal by a major player in the Arab world, which had broadly held that normal ties with the regime were only possible once the dispute with the Palestinians is resolved.
The surprise deal between the Zionist regime and the UAE last week is the third such accord the regime has struck with an Arab country, after Egypt and Jordan, and raises the prospect of similar accords with other pro-Western Persian Gulf states.
"Any Arab state that is considering following the UAE should demand in return a price, and it should be an expensive price,” Prince Turki wrote in the Saudi newspaper Asharq al-Awsat.
"The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has set a price for concluding peace between Israel and the Arabs - it is the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state with Jerusalem (al-Quds) as capital, as provided for by the initiative of the late King Abdullah.”
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan also said on Wednesday that Riyadh would not follow the UAE and establish ties with the Zionist regime until the occupying regime had sealed an accord with the Palestinians.
Prince Faisal bin Farhan told reporters on a visit to Berlin that "peace must be achieved with the Palestinians” on the basis of international agreements as a condition for any normalization of relations with the Zionist regime.
"Once that is achieved all things are possible,” he said.
Despite official statements, Saudi Arabia has also expanded secret ties with the regime under the crown prince, the son of King Salman, who is viewed by many as the Kingdom’s de facto ruler.
Back in 2018, Saudi Arabia opened its airspace for a commercial flight to the Zionist regime with the start of a new Air India route between India and the occupied territories, although El Al Israel Airlines might not use Saudi airspace for eastward flights.
Critics say Saudi Arabia’s flirtation with the regime would undermine global efforts to isolate the Zionist regime and affect the Palestinian cause in general. They say Riyadh has gone too far in its cooperation with the regime as a way of deterring Iran as an influential player in the region.
In another sign of warming ties between the Zionist regime and Saudi Arabia, the occupying regime has officially allowed people in the occupied territories to travel to Saudi Arabia.
Until now, Saudi Arabia, the Arab world’s biggest economy, has maintained a conspicuous silence over the UAE-Zionist deal.
Palestinians protested the deal as a betrayal by a major player in the Arab world, which had broadly held that normal ties with the regime were only possible once the dispute with the Palestinians is resolved.
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