Saudi Arabia and the U.S. want a mutual defense pact – with or without Israel

Haaretz

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Independent: Salman Schocken

Media Conglomerate: M. DuMont Schauberg

Saudi Arabia and the U.S. want a mutual defense pact – with or without Israel

Washington and Riyadh are worried that the third party to the normalization agreement will endanger their security interests in the name of political interests – so they're preparing a contingency plan, whereby bilateral cooperation is not dependent on Israeli-Saudi normalization