US President Joe Biden’s administration has said more discussions need to happen before a potential deal to normalize relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel can be reached.
White House spokesperson John Kirby said on Wednesday that the two countries have not agreed on a shared framework for negotiations, playing down speculation over a possible deal that news outlets have reported could include a US security guarantee for Saudi Arabia. There’s still a lot of discussing to happen here,” Kirby told reporters.“There is no agreed-to set of negotiations, there’s no agreed-to framework to codify normalization or any of the other security considerations that we and our friends have in the region.”Fostering stronger ties between Saudi Arabia and Israel – two top US allies in the Middle East – has become a central focus of the Biden administration’s policy in the region.
While Washington has not commented on the specifics of a potential Israeli-Saudi normalization agreement, US officials have said they are seeking such a pact. Source: aljazeera.com
Thursday, April 23, 2026
