Washington’s efforts to finalize a normalization deal between Saudi Arabia and Israel is in line only with US national interests, not supporting Palestinians.
At the same time as Israel continues its military blockade of Gaza, the United States is trying to use the current situation to strengthen its power in the Middle East without even considering the Palestinian issue.
In other words, the United States has prioritized normalizing relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia only to maintain and increase its all-round control over the Middle East.
According to the latest statement by US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken: “the necessary agreements between the United States and Saudi Arabia to finalize normalization between Riyadh and Tel Aviv are well within reach.”
With such an agreement, the US actually marginalizes the Palestinians even more, and at the same time, strongly integrates Israel into its regional network of alliances in the region.
Washington lies about supporting a two-state solution!
While the international community supports the two-state solution, the United States has supported the idea only in words. Just to give an example, it was in May that the United Nations voted for a resolution to create a Palestinian state and the United States vetoed it in the Security Council. Therefore, no expert can now claim that the words of US officials in support of the two-state solution are true.
Focused on maintaining its regional network for years, the United States pursued bilateral deals with Arab countries willing to establish peaceful relations with Israel, and under the Abraham Accord, several Arab countries pledged to normalize relations with the Jewish state.
U.S. officials are largely unanimous about the Accord as a major achievement, but critics have noted that it isolates the Palestinians even more. However, even before Hamas carried out its terrorist attack on Israel on October 7, the Biden administration was trying to expand the agreements to include Saudi Arabia.
This is while Biden, early in his career as president, promised to turn Saudi Arabia into a pariah state because of the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi back in 2018, but now he wants an agreement with Saudi Arabia more than anyone else.
This is mostly because he knows that Saudi Arabia has actually relinquished its long-standing insistence on the creation of a Palestinian state as a condition for normalization with Israel, and Saudi leaders are now looking for an agreement that simply leaves open the possibility of a Palestinian state.
By claiming that their plans to normalize relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia will eventually lead to the creation of a Palestinian state, the officials in the Biden administration have been able to almost reach an agreement between Riyadh and Tel Aviv. This agreement allows the United States to counter China’s growing influence in the region.
For Washington, everything is still about oil!
However, Washington’s pursuit of an agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia is not just to consolidate US security dominance in the Middle East and prevent the expansion of the influence of rivals such as China and Russia in the region. The US is also looking to dominate the flow of oil in the oil-rich Middle East.
In the last century, the US was very sensitive about dominating the Middle East region to provide the oil it needed. But now, thanks to the leading technologies in the United States, it easily supplies its oil needs and has not been importing oil from the Middle East for years.
However, the US knows it very well that most of its allies as well as powerful rivals, including China, India, Japan, and larger members of the European Union, are still heavily dependent on oil imported from the Persian Gulf.
Therefore, the military control of access to the Persian Gulf, regardless of which government or which party is at work in Washington, has always been a top priority in the US grand strategy.
Saudi Arabia’s accession to the Accord would also give Washington a very large market for US-made weapons in the Middle East and would also significantly support the stability of the US dollar.
