The President of the United States said this Friday that the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas attacked Israel, among other things, to harm negotiations aimed at normalizing relations between the Jewish state and Saudi Arabia.
“One of the reasons they did what they did (…) why they attacked Israel (…) is because I was going to sit down with the Saudis,” Joe Biden said at the event. fundraiser, adding that Riyadh was considering formal recognition of the Jewish state.
Saudi Arabia, one of the heavyweights in the Middle East, has decided to suspend US-sponsored talks on a possible normalization of relations with Israel a week after Hamas launched an attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip.