A Saudi Scholar Lays the Religious Groundwork for Normalization with Israel
And proposes a new Islamic approach to international relations.
July 13, 2022
And proposes a new Islamic approach to international relations.
Since the conclusion of the Abraham Accords, there has been speculation that Saudi Arabia—which went to war with the nascent Jewish state in 1948 and since then has not made peace—will be the next Arab country to establish diplomatic relations with Jerusalem. Y. Yehoshua explains a significant step in the kingdom’s internal discussion of the issue:
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Tehran has been developing such weapons for decades.
Doing so would signal that Israel’s allies have lost the argument.
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