President Trump Pede Normalizes Saudi Arabia's Relations With Israel Will Be Realized

JAKARTA - United States President Donald Trump said he believed Saudi Arabia would join the Abraham Accords a series of normalization agreements brokered by the previous administration between Israel and several Arab countries in an interview with Time Magazine published on Friday.

"I think Saudi Arabia will enter the Abraham Accords," President Trump told political correspondent Eric Cortellessa when asked about his planned visit to Riyadh next month, marking his second overseas trip in his second term. April 25.

"I think it will soon materialize," added President Trump, referring to the normalization agreement.

President Trump expressed his admiration for Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and the people of Saudi Arabia, adding "Saudi Arabia agreed to invest one trillion dollars in our economy."

"I will then go to Qatar, and I will then go to the United Arab Emirates," he continued.

President Trump blamed President Joe Biden's administration for stopping the "extraordinary success" of the Abrahamic Agreement.

"They did nothing to the Abrahamic Agreement. We have four countries there, everything is ready. We will finish it. Now we will start again," he said.

Last year, the Saudi Arabian Ministry reiterated the country's stance that it would not have diplomatic relations with Israel without an independent Palestinian state.

The statement follows the visit of the then United States Secretary of State, Antony Blinken.

"The government has communicated its firm position to the US Government, there will be no diplomatic relations with Israel unless the Independent Palestinian State is recognized on the 1967 border, with East Jerusalem as its capital," the Saudi Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Another requirement is, "Israel's aggression in the Gaza Strip has stalled and all Israeli occupation forces are withdrawing from the Gaza Strip," the ministry continued in a statement.

It is known that most Arab and Islamic countries do not recognize Israel, with the formation of a Palestinian State being the old Saudi Arabian stance.

A few weeks before Hamas launched its offensive to southern Israel on October 7, Riyadh said it was getting closer to normalizing diplomatic relations with the Jewish nation.