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Saudi US-Embassy tries to bury Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution

By David Singer - posted Thursday, 22 June 2023

Every serious interlocutor I know who has spent significant time in Riyadh in recent months will tell you that Saudi leaders no longer insist on Palestinian statehood as a condition for movement towards Israel.

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman concluded last December that the Biden-supported two-state solution, unachieved after 20 years of intense diplomatic activity, was "in hospice".

The Saudi Solution is a potential game-changer.

Abandoning the late King Abdullah's 2002 initiative, coupled with MBS not uttering one word rejecting or disapproving the Saudi Solution, represents a major change in Saudi Arabia's position towards normalization with Israel.

Why did Nazer ignore mentioning these recent highly-significant developments?

The possible answer: Implementing the Saudi Solution could be one of the top agenda items in the current secret negotiations between Israel and Saudi Arabia. Keeping everyone in the dark, including President Biden, gives those negotiations the best chance of success.

The Saudi Embassy's perceived burial of the Saudi Solution is premature.

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The author has a Facebook page: "Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine supporters"

Author's note: The cartoon - commissioned exclusively for this article - is by Yaakov Kirschen aka "Dry Bones"- one of Israel's foremost political and social commentators - whose cartoons have graced the columns of Israeli and international media publications for decades

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David Singer is an Australian Lawyer, a Foundation Member of the International Analyst Network and Convenor of Jordan is Palestine International - an organisation calling for sovereignty of the West Bank and Gaza to be allocated between Israel and Jordan as the two successor States to the Mandate for Palestine. Previous articles written by him can be found at www.jordanispalestine.blogspot.com.