Saudi-Zionist deal derailed: Analysts

Saudi-Zionist deal derailed: Analysts

WASHINGTON: The Palestinian attack on the Zionist entity has dealt a se severe blow to momentum to secure a landmark US-brokered deal between Zionists and Saudi Arabia, analysts say. On Saturday, Palestinian fighters in the besieged Gaza strip fired thousands of rockets as scores infiltrated occupied lands, leaving Zionists in total shock. As rocket fire continued, Hamas announced its operation, calling on all Palestinian factions and their allies to rise up. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Zionist entity was at war.

Just weeks earlier he had brushed aside the Palestinian issue during a speech at the United Nations and said normalization in 2020 with three other Arab nations in the so-called Abraham Accords had “heralded a new age of peace.” Netanyahu also said Zionists were on the cusp of a bigger prize — recognition by Saudi Arabia, guardian of Islam’s two holiest sites. President Joe Biden, eager before next year’s US election for a major diplomatic win, has pushed for a deal, and more talks were expected in coming weeks — despite skepticism from some of Biden’s fellow Democrats about the proposed security guarantees to the conservative kingdom, whose rights record has long been under scrutiny.

“It was always a tough