John Kirby, the spokesman and coordinator of strategic communications of the White House National Security Council claimed on Tuesday that the United States still is hopeful for a normalization deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia.
He hinted about the Biden administration's focus on extending the so-called Abraham Accords signed under the previous government under Donald Trump.
"We still think there is an opportunity," Kirby told reporters, adding that the progress had also been made toward a possible agreement between Hamas and Israel to end the fighting and release prisoners as talks involving Hamas, American, Qatari and Egyptian officials are underway in Cairo.
Kirby statements come at a time when Saudi Arabia has repeatedly called for an immediate ceasefire and the cessation of the Zionist regime's aggression in the Gaza Strip and the unimpeded flow of humanitarian aid into the region since the start of the war on October 7, 2023.
Saudi Arabia reconsidered its foreign policy priorities following the Israeli onslaught against Gaza, putting US-backed plans to normalize ties with Israel on ice.
Washington’s new efforts to bring Saudi Arabia closer to Israel comes also at a critical time when US President Joe Biden is seeking re-election and his government has been left embarrassed by the kingdom’s bolstering of ties with Iran and Syria as well as China.
The UAE, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco signed US-brokered normalization agreements with Israel in 2020, drawing condemnations from Muslims across the globe, with Palestinians calling deals “a stab in the back of Palestinians and their cause.”
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