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Trump drops Biden’s demand that Saudis recognize Israel in nuclear deal with US — sources (www.timesofisrael.com)

submitted 7 months ago by geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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The United States is no longer demanding Saudi Arabia normalize ties with Israel as a condition for progress on civil nuclear cooperation talks, two sources with knowledge of the matter tell Reuters ahead of US President Donald Trump’s visit next week.

Washington would be making a major concession by dropping the demand that Saudi Arabia establish diplomatic relations with Israel. Under former US president Joe Biden, nuclear talks were an element of a wider US-Saudi deal tied to normalization and Riyadh’s goal of a defense treaty with Washington.

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[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

So liberal college students get called terrorists and are disappeared for saying Israel shouldn't commit genocide, but the country that funded 9/11 doesn't have to recognize Israel's right to exist in order to get nukes?

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

Member when the Saudis bailed Elon out when he got forced to buy Twitter? Looks like they bought some favors with that.

[–] PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Dudes just trying to start a world war

[–] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 7 months ago

I don't think it's that deep. I think he's just trying to dismantle any "Biden win" he can. Probably wants to drop it here and get them to normalize outside of that deal so he can say that it was all him.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Why was it a condition in the first place? It just looks like we're serving netanyahu's interests and not our own,

Oh, right. biden.