In an effort to quell the mounting public outrage over his administration’s stance on the ongoing genocide against the Gazan people and in light of the impending presidential election, which he feared would see his rival Donald Trump return, US President Joe Biden announced that the Israeli entity has announced an initiative for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in exchange for the release of all prisoners in three stages, the first of which will take six weeks in exchange for the release of some of the occupation’s prisoners held by the Hamas movement and for Israel to release hundreds of prisoners, including women, children, and the elderly, with a two-state guarantee.
These remarks, which the US had threatened to make before beginning the ongoing war of extermination, were interpreted by analysts as both a significant victory for the resistance and an official US declaration that Israel could not end the war, destroy the resistance, or free the Israeli captives.
Not content with that, Biden teased the occupying Zionist regime, offering to reverse the normalization process with Saudi Arabia in exchange for a halt to hostilities and increased engagement with the nations of the Abraham Accord—United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Jordan, and Morocco.
Political analysts viewed Biden’s speech about Saudi Arabia as demeaning to the Kingdom during the reign of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who is regarded as the de facto head of state because his ailing, elderly father, King Salman, is not present.
According to analysts, President Biden’s remarks implied that the Kingdom’s stance is worthless. The Saudi authorities stopped all popular support campaigns for Gaza and confiscated some of the phones of content creators who attempted to film clips of praying in front of the Kaaba or in the Holy Rawdah, referring some of them to the prosecution. They also continued to support the occupation army with fuel shipments that had been agreed upon between them some time prior to the war, failing to stop or cut it off. All of this occurred during a period when planes carrying humanitarian aid were departing weekly from King Khalid Airport in Riyadh and one of these planes was heading to Ukraine every week.
Saudi Arabia was forced to respond poorly in order to save face after the American President’s remarks placed it in an awkward situation. The Saudi Foreign Ministry said: It wants the occupying state to take a serious stance to cease fire and calm the situation, but it did not comment on what Biden’s comments regarding the Normalization file between the state of the Israeli entity and Saudi Arabia. The US State Department also revealed during the past weeks that secret meetings were being held between the Saudi authorities and the occupation authorities in NEOM over normalization file and the serious steps had been taken in this regard, saying that an official normalization deal is going to be declared in the coming days.
Blinken earlier declared during his visit to Saudi Arabia that the Kingdom is waiting for Israel to recognize the Palestinian state, but he did not clarify whether it is a demilitarized state that the resistance rejects, or a real state in which the Palestinian people can enjoy a decent life?
