Trump claims Saudi Arabia will ‘join’ Israeli normalization pact without precondition
Trump claims Saudi Arabia will ‘join’ Israeli normalization pact without preconditions
M.U.H
04/11/202515
US President Donald Trump has claimed that Saudi Arabia will normalize relations with the Israeli regime without any preconditions, including the establishment of a Palestinian state.
Trump said in an interview with the 60 Minutes news program on CBS that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS) would join the so-called Abraham Accords with the Tel Aviv regime without the kingdom's precondition of the Palestinian issue.
"He has said they won't join the Abraham Accords without a two-state solution. Do you believe that?" CBS correspondent Norah O'Donnell asked Trump about MBS.
"No, I think he's going to join," Trump responded. "I think we will have a solution. I don't know if it's going to be two-state, that's going to be up to Israel, and other people, and me.”
Queried whether he could push Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accept a Palestinian state, the US president said, "He's a guy that has never been pushed before. I didn't like certain things that he did."
Pointing to his decision to press Netanyahu to apologize to Qatar for the September aggression on Doha, as well as his acceptance of a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, Trump said, "I had to push him a little bit, one way or the other. I think I did a great job in pushing him.”
Also in his interview with the CBS, the US president stated that he would “help” Netanyahu with his corruption trial in Israel — a highly unusual move that constitutes foreign interference in the justice system of a US major ally.
"I think it's very unfair," Trump claimed. "He's under trial for some things, and I don't think they treat him very well."
Trump's remarks come ahead of the Saudi crown prince's visit to Washington on November 18 — his first visit to the White House since a 2018 visit during Trump's first term at the White House.
While the Trump administration seeks to include Riyadh in the so-called Abraham Accords, Riyadh has long insisted that it will only normalize ties with Tel Aviv if it agrees to establish a time-bound, irreversible pathway to a future Palestinian state
Last year, the Saudi crown prince accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza.
Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Ministry has also announced that it will not normalize diplomatic relations with Israel without the establishment of an independent sovereign Palestinian state with al-Quds as its capital, amid growing outrage over Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.
The UAE, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco signed the US-brokered normalization pact with Israel in 2020, drawing condemnations from Palestinians who slammed the deals as “a stab in the back of the Palestinian cause and the Palestinian people.”
