Easiest path to normalization is still PA in Gaza, but there are some surprising other options, sources said.
Leiter, who officially began his role on Friday, described normalization with Saudi Arabia as part of a broader realignment in the MidEast.
MBS, the young and forward-looking Saudi prince, is known to be less patient than many of his older predecessors in Saudi diplomacy with the Palestinians.
Although the hopes Israeli-Saudi normalization deal have diminished since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, the Biden administration remains keen on reviving prospects.
One of the first things anyone who has traveled to an Arab country learns is that one of the worst social faux pas you can make is to offend your host.
The Saudis have said that Israel's continuing the war, and the high death toll of Palestinian civilians, has delayed normalization.
His words were part of a series of statements the Biden administration has made about its intention to pursue a peace process once a ceasefire is in place.
One of them is the plan to derail Israel-Saudi normalization.
Saudi Arabia and Israel have many shared interests, chief among them the struggle against radical Islam propagated by groups such as ISIS and the Muslim Brotherhood.
BEHIND THE LINES: The supposed “progressives” in the Biden administration are the ones who are cleaving to older ideas, while the “conservatives” in Riyadh are looking to move beyond them.
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