The Times of Israel reports on the agreement that collapsed before it took effect

According to RCO News Agency, “Anthony Blinken”, the US foreign minister at the time, prepared a document containing his plan for the post-war era. According to this document, the expectations of the United States and Saudi Arabia from the Zionist regime to provide concessions to the Palestinians were more limited and included providing a larger part of the West Bank to the Palestinian Authority.

On the other hand, there were still differences between the United States and Saudi Arabia regarding the timing of the recognition of the Palestinian state; Because Riyadh wanted a shorter time for the recognition of Palestine.

However, enough agreement had been reached between the parties for Blinken to plan his trip to the occupied territories in early October 2023 and take the joint Washington-Riyadh document with him.

Blinken expected the Prime Minister of the Zionist regime, Benjamin Netanyahu, to add his desired reforms to the document; Among the conditions that would probably postpone the establishment of the Palestinian state for a long time or practically make it impossible.

On the other hand, the Zionist regime was aware of the process of the US-Arab negotiations and felt comfortable with the limited steps discussed; As far as the Foreign Ministry of the Zionist regime prepared a draft of a possible normalization agreement with Saudi Arabia.

But the October 7 operation by Hamas disrupted all Blinken’s plans and forced the US to shift its efforts from normalizing relations to managing the Gaza war.

Biden and White House officials have claimed that one of Hamas’s goals from the October 7 attack was to thwart the US effort to broker a normalization agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia.

The Times of Israel wrote in its report that after the beginning of the conflicts between the Zionist regime and Hamas after October 7, the United States tried to revive these negotiations as a way to end the Gaza war.

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