The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia launched the fierce government media attack on Netanyahu

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia launched a quiet government media campaign against Benjamin Netanyahu, noting the increasing frustration in the Royal Court in the main Gulf state with the Israeli Prime Minister and the War in Gaza.

The hostile barbecues were unusually, which could only be deployed with the approval of the authorities, after the United States and Israeli officials spoke on the prospects Kingdom of Saudi Arabia The normalization of relations with Israel, despite Riyadh’s insistence that this depends on the establishment of a Palestinian state.

The attack was operated Netanyahu The banter in an interview last week on the establishment of a Palestinian state in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

After an introduction to the Israel Channel 14, he said that there would be no progress in normalizing relations between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Israel without establishing a Saudi state, Netanyahu corrected it by saying: “(you mean) a Palestinian state.”

“Unless you want to be the Palestinian state in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,” he added. “They have a lot of land.”

The government media responded fiercely, reflecting the anger that has boiled months ago among senior officials and the public.

A report on the modern state news channel clearly described Netanyahu as “a Zionist and the son of the Zionists. Those who inherited extremism in his genes.” He added: “The occupation has no good face or an ugly face. It has only one face and it is Benjamin Netanyahu.”

The Saudi -owned Al -Arabiya channel broadcast a talk show in which the presentation provider raised questions about Netanyahu’s mental state. “Perhaps the state of hallucinations?” Approach request.

A columnist in the daily Okaz newspaper called the comments of the Israeli Prime Minister “ridiculous and ridiculous”, while supporters of the government on social media are called Netanyahu, “the corrupt”, which is a scene of his name in Arabic.

The Saudi anger has pushed the open, as it is expected that Riyadh will face US President Donald Trump to normalize relations with Israel. Like other Arab countries, Riyadh also rocked Trump’s insistence on forcing the Palestinians to leave Gaza.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was closing in a triple deal with the Biden administration before the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023. The Kingdom had approved official diplomatic relations with Israel in exchange for an American defense agreement and assisting with a nuclear program.

The war in Gaza shook these plans. Radia has never deviated from normalization from the table, but he escalated his condemnation of Israel’s behavior of its war in Gaza and crucified its position, and insisted that Israel would need to take irreversible steps towards a solution from the two countries.

In September, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman went further, and told the Consultant Shura Council that the Kingdom would not recognize Israel without establishing an independent Palestinian state, including Gaza and the West Bank, with East Jerusalem as its capital.

Saudi officials have expressed the discontent with what they consider offensive and virtual comments by Netanyahu and his remaining right allies indicate that the Kingdom will not only take in the displaced Palestinians, but it will also accept the conditions of normalization much more than their average request is an independent Palestinian state.

“There is a complete ignorance of the data issued by Saudi officials, (and this makes the Saudis appear as mainly reliable, people with two faces and two sins. Dubai.

“They (Riyadh) is trying to use this opportunity to give Netanyahu the taste of his medicine.”

Netanyahu claimed that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will follow the steps of the neighboring United Arab Emirates, which, along with Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco, established diplomatic relations with Israel in 2020.

These deals, which were closed during the first period of Trump and called Abraham Accords, provided minimal advantages to the Palestinians.

Trump said he would like to extend the agreements to include the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which is the main prize as leader of the Sunni Islamic world.

Prince Muhammad enjoyed strong relations with Trump during his first term, and there were some evidence that his leadership wanted to take the place where she stopped. The Crown Prince told the president this month that the Kingdom planned this Invest more than 600 billion dollars In the United States for four years.

But Trump shocked the Arab countries by saying last week not only that Gaza should be Emptying the PalestiniansBut also that the United States must take over the tape. A person familiar with this matter said that Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan had stopped a scheduled trip to Washington after Trump announced his plan.

The kingdom also rejected Trump’s plan quickly in a statement designed by a force issued at four in the morning local time, saying: “The achievement of permanent and aggressive peace is impossible without the Palestinian people obtaining their legitimate rights in accordance with international resolutions, and it was previously clarified to both previous and current American departments. “

“The entire ship is moving in the wrong direction now,” said Ali Shihabi, the Saudi commentator near the Royal Court.

He added: “People expected that Trump would come and advance along a path from the two countries, but Trump took it in a completely different direction and Netanyahu was trying to benefit from that.”

“The Israelis have a strong public relations machine, and when they continue to say that it is behind the closed doors, the Saudis give us a different message, Radia realizes that it should be more active in waived it.”

The Saudi leadership is also concerned about the anger of the war in Gaza between a generation of Arab youth.

“Certainly, Saudi officials are the growing general anger among younger Saudis, but also among the younger Muslim population globally,” said Ilham Fakru, a research colleague at the Middle East initiative at Harvard Kennedy School. “This is another reason for the multiplication of Saudi officials on the Palestinian state.”

Participated in additional reports by James Stoster in Jerusalem and Andrew England, London