Saudi Order of Priorities * The State Department and the Western foreign policy status quo have argued that the Palestinian factor is high on the Saudi national order of priorities. Thus, they argued that a really extensive strengthening of Saudi-Israeli cooperation, and indeed, the conclusion of a Saudi-Israeli peace treaty, would be a prerequisite for really extensive Israeli concessions to the Palestinians, adding the creation of a Palestinian state. Contrary to the State Department’s worldview, Saudi Arabian strongman Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) does not see the Palestinian factor as a sensible top priority. * Also, contrary to State Department assessments , MBS is aware that the Palestinian factor is not the cinput of the Arab-Israeli conflict, nor a jewel in the crown of Arab politics, nor a number one cause of regional turmoil. and ingratitude (especially the Palestinian collaboration with Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990); as well as deep-seated Palestinian collaboration with foreign terrorist organizations, Muslim Brotherhood terrorists and the regime of the Iranian ayatollahs (posing fatal risks to the House of Saud), North Korea, Cuba and Venezuela. * Simultaneously, MBS is absorbed through the strategic purpose of making Saudi Arabia a fashionable regional/global superpower, editing regional stability, minimizing risk from existing rogue entities (eg Iranian Ayatollahs and Muslim Brotherhood terrorists), preventing the rise of more rogue entities (for example, the subverted Shia nationals in Saudi Arabia’s eastern oil region, the Houthis in Yemen, the proposed Palestinian state, and Hezbollah), and by strengthening investment, the progression of infrastructure and economic diversification (for example, high technology). In a year-long alliance between the House of Saud and the Wahhabi fundamentalist status quo of central and southwestern Saudi Arabia, MBS identified the price of Israel’s military and technological capabilities, and Israel’s special position among the top US constituency and lawmakers. of the Capitol, and Israel’s reliability and effectiveness in pursuing MBS’s game conversion strategic purpose. * Indeed, under the leadership of MBS, Saudi Arabia forged unprecedented defense and industrial cooperation with Israel, and served as the ultimate critical driving force behind Israel’s peace treaties with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan, independently of the Palestinian consultation and in the service of its own order of national priorities. * Contrary to the State Department’s position, those countries, like Egypt and Jordan before them, are not sacrificing the truth of the Middle East and their national security interests on the altar of wishful thinking, oversimplification and consultation. Palestine. Peace treaty between Israel and Saudi Arabia?* An effective peace treaty between Israel and Saudi Arabia owes the national security interests of both countries. * Saudi interest in expanding its defense, counterterrorism and industrial cooperation with Israel – and in all likelihood concluding a peace treaty – has not been a product of Saudi appreciation of Israel’s nonviolent intent and concessions to the Palestinians. It has been a product of high regard for Israel’s deterrent posture and muscular build vis-à-vis the Iranian ayatollahs, Israel’s war decision against Palestinian and Islamic terrorism, and its US pressure and US policy on Iran. Today, MBS would prefer a deterrent and defiant Israel on their side. * A deterrent Israel is a key asset to Saudi Arabia’s national security. A retreating Israel would have nothing to do with Saudi Arabia’s national security. West Bank), facilitating the status quo of a Palestinian state. This would turn Israel from a force multiplier of terror and war deterrence for the United States and Saudi Arabia into a charge of terror and war. a wide swath along the Mediterranean would be a factor of congratulations in the short term from Foggy Bottom. But it would destroy Israel’s long-term deterrence position, remove Israel’s price tag for Saudi Arabia, diminish Israel’s defense and economic merit to the United States, and doom Israel to extinction. Pillars of national security, the violently unpredictable Middle East presents a 1,400-year-old truth of transitional Arab regimes, policies and agreements (undemocratic, one-shot, one-shot). Thus, the truth of the Middle East dictates that, as desirable as Arab-Israeli peace treaties are, they deserve not to be conditioned on the sacrifice of Israel’s most critical national security element: the maximum permanent sensography of the mountain ranges. mountains of Judea and Samaria, which dominate 80% of Israel’s population and infrastructure. warning from the State Department that such moves would force Egypt to abandon its peace treaty with Israel. However, Egypt adhered to their national security demands, supporting the peace treaty. Periodically, the State Department has warned that the structure in Jerusalem (beyond the “Green Line”) and Judea and Samaria would spark a terrorist volcano and drive Egypt out of the peace treaty. her own interests; it is not in line with the rogue Palestinian agenda. * Despite the State Department worldview and regardless of the pro-Palestinian Arab discourse, Arabs have displayed an indifferent to negative attitude toward Palestinians. They have never shown military (and hardly any monetary and diplomatic) force on behalf of the Palestinians. They acted in accordance with their own, not Palestinian interests, and indeed not in accordance with the State Department’s misperceptions of the Middle East. * Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will participate in a peace treaty with Israel when he considers it favorable for his game. -Saudi Arabia’s wonderful vision of conversion, and when it is imaginable to triumph over the internal Wahhabi opposition, regardless of the Palestinian issue.
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