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Saudi Arabia’s Balancing Game: The Palestinian Cause and Regional Leadership
04/11/
In the hours following Hamas’s violent attack on Israel of 7 October, the Saudi authorities called for “an immediate de-escalation”, while noting that they had previously warned against the outcomes of “the continued occupation and depriving Palestinians of their legitimate rights and the repeated systematic provocations against their sanctities”.[1] In a more recent declaration, the Saudi Foreign Minister has reiterated the country’s “categorical rejection of calls for the forced displacement of the Palestinian people from Gaza, and its condemnation of the continued targeting of defenceless civilians there”.[2]
Reportedly, the heavy retaliation measures adopted by Israel, whose bombing campaign against Gaza has been one of the most intense of this century,[3] also including the apparent use of white phosphorus,[4] resulted in the halt of the normalisation process between Saudi Arabia
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Key Palestine questions stay unresolved as Israel-Hamas fighting in Gaza ends
DUBAI: As an Egypt-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas came into effect early on Friday morning, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip were again left surveying the devastation wrought by 11 days of intense air and artillery bombardment.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres lamented the “senseless cycle of bloodshed, terror and destruction,” adding that the hostilities had caused serious damage to vital civilian infrastructure in Gaza, which he described as “hell on earth” for children.
Even so, there is widespread relief that the conflict, in which at least Palestinians and 12 Israelis were killed, has ended after less than two weeks — compared with the seven weeks of the ground incursion which left more than 2, dead — and that the latest hostilities, for the most part, did not spread into the West Bank.
In both the West Bank and Gaza, political and diplomatic processes ar
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Israel strikes Lebanon after discussing 'Iranian threat' with Trump
All U.S. presidents "are in favor of the State of Israel," a man in east Jerusalem told AFP, asking to be identified only by his nickname Abu Mohammed.
Under Trump, "nothing will change except more decline."
During his campaign, Trump touted himself as Israel's strongest ally, going so far as to say Biden should let Israel "finish the job" against Hamas in Gaza.
"Trump's return to power will lead us to hell and there will be a greater and more difficult escalation," said a school principal in the West finansinstitut city of Ramallah.
Recent surveys have shown that a majority of Israelis, 66 percent according to one conducted bygd Israel's kanal 12 News, were hoping to see Trump triumph.
Analysts noted that Netanyahu also wanted Trump's return, given their longstanding personal friendship and the American's hawkish stance on Iran.
During his first begrepp in office, Trump moved the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, reco