Israel Hayom reports that senior Saudi officials doubt Israel’s next prime minister will have the political strength to advance normalization with the kingdom. The skepticism centers on a possible government led by Gadi Eisenkot, but also applies to a caretaker Netanyahu government serving until a 2027 election. The officials said they do not know the former IDF chief of staff well and questioned whether he could “tilt the direction of the Israeli ship.”Open Source Intel (@Osint613)Kann News: Saudi Arabia has no personal issue with Netanyahu. His policy is the obstacle, according to a Saudi source familiar with the kingdom’s position.
The source: “In our view, Netanyahu only wants to create problems. He doesn’t want peace, but escalation.”
Normalization will stay off the table as long as he heads the current government. Riyadh has not officially addressed the Israeli election results.
The kingdom wants negotiations and a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian issue based on a two-state solution. On Gadi Eisenkot as a possible successor, the source stressed that who leads Israel is an internal Israeli matter.
Riyadh insists normalization stays tied to the Palestinian issue, not to other matters such as Israeli help against the Houthis in Yemen.
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