Is a U.S.-Saudi-Israeli Grand Bargain a Real Possibility? A Conversation With Thomas L. Friedman

On August 3, AGSIW hosted a discussion on the push for a grand bargain between Israel and Saudi Arabia brokered by the United States.
Speakers
Thomas L. Friedman, Columnist, The New York Times
Hussein Ibish, Senior Resident Scholar, AGSIW (Moderator)
On July 27, New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman reported that President Joseph R. Biden Jr. is considering a major push for a grand bargain between Israel and Saudi Arabia brokered by the United States. He wrote that recent trips to Riyadh by high-level U.S. officials were all related to exploring the possibility of an arrangement that would involve significant concessions from all parties to bring the two most significant U.S. military partners in the region into a formal understanding. According to Friedman, in such an arrangement, Saudi Arabia would normalize relations with Israel and pull back from stronger ties with China, while the United States would formalize strong security guarantees for Saudi Arabia, help develop the Saudi civilian nuclear program, and provide more sophisticated antimissile systems. But Israel would have to “make meaningful concessions” to the Palestinians in the occupied territories and forgo annexation, possibly forever.
Why does Friedman believe the White House is strongly considering such an agenda? How can the key obstacles, particularly attitudes by the current Israeli Cabinet toward Palestinians, the occupation, and eventual annexation, be overcome? Is Saudi Arabia really ready to normalize ties with Israel in return for formal U.S. security guarantees? And does Biden have time to seriously pursue this before he is engulfed in the 2024 presidential campaign?
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  • @lrzezak
    @lrzezak9 ай бұрын

    Excellent interview. Thomas Friedman always so good, and the interviewer, a very nice surprise to me. Please go ahead with more interviews!

  • @kayare4522
    @kayare45229 ай бұрын

    Bari Weiss who is one of the most intelligent and bravest journalists of our time interviewed Bibi - she was hardly fooled by him! What nonsense Thomas Friedman comes up with about “any journalist who interviews Bibi must ask themselves “what is wrong with me””.

  • @edelsmith1138
    @edelsmith11389 ай бұрын

    Clear echos of terrorist propaganda 😢😢😢😢

  • @bob-wo3ir
    @bob-wo3ir10 ай бұрын

    Thomas Friedman is a joke. Everything he says turn backward lol

  • @robertmusil5831
    @robertmusil583110 ай бұрын

    A Conversation With Thomas "suck on this" Friedman? Think I'll pass. Edward Said on Friedman: “Friedman belongs very clearly on one side, the side associated with classical anti-Arab and anti-Islamic Orientalism” "“what Friedman ... espouse[s] is a threadbare repertoire of often racist clichés, all of them bearing the marks of colonial knowledge ” From: Edward W. Said. “The Politics of Dispossession”.

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