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Saudis Made Plans for Ties With Zionist Regime

Date: 14 November 2017 - 21:33

News ID: ۴۶۴۵۷

BEIRUT (Dispatches) – A Lebanese paper closely aligned with the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah on Tuesday published a "secret document” that purports to show the Saudis are willing to normalize relations with the Zionist regime as part of a U.S.-led so-called Zionist-Palestinian peace effort and unite the region against Iran.
The alleged document, published by the Al Akhbar daily, is a letter from the Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir to the crown prince, Mohammed Bin Salman, explaining why it’s in the kingdom’s interest to normalize relations with the Zionist regime. The letter has no date.
"I have the honor to submit to you the draft of the plan to establish relations between the kingdom and the State of Israel, based on the strategic partnership agreement with the United States of America, which was discussed with the secretary of state of the United States of America,” the alleged letter from the foreign minister to the crown prince opens.
In May, after a visit from U.S. President Donald Trump to Saudi Arabia, the two sides agreed to form a new strategic partnership, the White House said.
The letter goes on to say that a rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and the Zionist regime has risks for the kingdom due to the strength of the Palestinian cause among Muslims. While normalization will at first be rejected by Arabs, the alleged letter argues, Zionist "technological and economic prowess” will help usher in a more prosperous era for the region.
"The kingdom will not take this risk unless it felt the United States has taken a sincere approach to Iran, which is destabilizing the region by sponsoring terrorism,” the letter said.
The letter adds that Saudi Arabia would normalize relations with the regime under two conditions. First, either the kingdom builds up nuclear weapons similar to the Zionist regime’s alleged nuclear arsenal, or the regime gives up its alleged nukes.
Second, the letter said, the Saudis, with the help of the U.S., would solve the Palestinian issue, including the two most difficult final status issues, the fate of al-Quds and Palestinian refugees.
Regarding al-Quds, which the occupying regime sees as its capital while the Palestinians claim East al-Quds for a future state, the Saudis propose the ancient city be put under international control and be administered by the United Nations.
As for the Palestinian refugee issue, the letter said the Saudis would be willing to help the estimated five million Palestinian refugees worldwide to settle in their host countries, rather than bringing them back to the occupied territories.
The Zionist regime and the U.S. would then be expected to help Saudi Arabia confront Iran’s policies in the region and "help foil the Islamic Republic’s ballistic missile program.”
An Iranian man holds a poster bearing images of Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, U.S. President Donald Trump and Saudi King Salam during a parade marking al-Quds day in Tehran on June 23, 2017.