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Israel indicates agreement involving defence pact with US is not possible if Palestinian state is a condition
The US is worried that Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, may be willing to torpedo a potential normalisation deal with Saudi Arabia if it entails ending the war in Gaza and committing to working towards a two-state solution to the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
“We have sought to move forward in negotiating the bilateral aspects, but even if we were to conclude those agreements – and I believe we could, relatively quickly – it could not go forward absent other things that need to happen for normalisation to proceed,” the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, told the Senate’s foreign relations committee on Tuesday.
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