Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday said normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia is ready to go, but requires following through on ending the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip and a commitment to a pathway to a Palestinian state.

Much of the heavy lifting for normalisation is complete, including negotiations on complex US-Saudi elements of an agreement,” Blinken said before the Atlantic Council in Was

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday that a normalization deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia, which he negotiated but did not complete, remained the best way to encourage Israeli-Palestinian peace.

President Biden’s longtime aide rallied scores of nations to defend Ukraine, but then became a villain to the many critics of U.S. support for Israel’s war in Gaza.

has pledged to block all future weapons sales to Saudi Arabia and pressed the Biden administration to “immediately freeze all aspects” of U.S. cooperation... Secretary of State Antony Blinken ...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday that he has received strong indications that Saudi Arabia is willing to normalise relations with Israel, particularly now that a ceasefire ...

The Gaza plan was just one part of the speech, which also covered other areas of the administration’s Middle East policy.

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Antony Blinken is set to make a last-minute case ... including Iran and potential normalization of ties between Israel and Saudi Arabia. Blinken and his top aides have spent months trying to sell Israel, the Palestinian ...

With the Biden administration on its way out the door, Secretary of State Antony Blinken offered on Tuesday an expansive vision of a revamped and revised Middle East, even as negotiators in Qatar were struggling to nail down an elusive ceasefire deal between Israel and Palestinian Hamas militants.

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Netanyahu is under pressure from right-wing members of his coalition government to resume bombardment of the Gaza Strip until Hamas is destroyed. Several have said they received assurances from Netanyahu that after the first phase of the truce ends, Israeli troops and fighter jets will once again launch in and over Gaza.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken departs from ... Meanwhile, the prospect of normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia “is the best incentive to get the parties to make tough decisions ...