White House: ‘Basic Framework’ in Place for Tel Aviv-Riyadh Normalization

WASHINGTON (KI) – The Zionist regime and Saudi Arabia are moving toward the outline of a controversial U.S.-brokered deal to normalize relations, the White House claims.

“All sides have hammered out, I think, a basic framework for what, you know, what we might be able to drive at,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters.
“But, as in any complex arrangement, as this will inevitably be, everybody is going to have to do something. And everybody is going to have to compromise on some things,” Zionist media outlets cited Kirby as saying.
This comes as earlier in September, the London-based Elaph online newspaper, citing a Zionist regime official, reported that Washington has informed Tel Aviv of Riyadh’s stance that the “extremist” nature of the occupying regime led by prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “torpedoing any possibility of rapprochement with the Palestinians, and therefore with the Saudis.”
A day earlier, Reuters reported that Saudi Arabia is determined to secure a military pact requiring the United States to defend the kingdom in return for opening ties with the Zionist regime and will not hold up a deal even if the occupying regime does not offer major concessions to Palestinians in their bid for statehood, three regional sources familiar with the talks said.
A pact might fall short of the cast-iron, NATO-style military guarantees the kingdom initially sought when the issue was first discussed between Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Joe Biden during the U.S. president’s visit to Saudi Arabia in July 2022.
Instead, a U.S. source said it could look like treaties Washington has with Asian states or, if that would not win U.S. Congress approval, it could be similar to a U.S. agreement with Bahrain, where the U.S. Navy Fifth Fleet is based. Such an agreement would not need congressional backing.
Washington could also sweeten any deal by designating Saudi Arabia a Major Non-NATO Ally, a status already given to the Zionist regime, the U.S. source said.
But all the sources said Saudi Arabia would not settle for less than binding assurances of U.S. protection if it faced attack, such as the Sept. 14, 2019 missile strikes on its oil sites that rattled world markets.