Time Is Running Out for Saudi Arabia
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This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire
By Eric Bordenkircher
Real Clear Wire
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s foreign ministry issued a statement about the normalization of relations with Israel on February 7. It declared that Saudi Arabia would not establish relations with Israel until the “brotherly Palestinian people obtain their legitimate rights”—the creation and recognition of an independent state with 1967 borders and East Jerusalem as its capital. The statement refined and affirmed comments that Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan made in Davos three weeks earlier.
The announcement leaves Saudi security and interests to chance. The Saudi government is making the realization of relations between two countries,