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** President Trump, Stop Saudi Arabia's Poisonous Campaign Against Jews and the Abraham Accords ([link removed])
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by Bassam Tawil • January 29, 2026 at 5:00 am
* Both Israeli and Arab political analysts recently have pointed out that Saudi Arabia's renewed anti-Israel and antisemitic rhetoric shows that the kingdom is moving away from normalization with Israel in favor of an alliance with the Muslim Brotherhood, Qatar and Turkey, especially now that the US has approved Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman's request for American tanks and F-35 stealth fighter jets.
* [B]ehind the scenes, "the Saudis and the Qataris led a campaign for Trump not to strike Iran.... [The Saudi leadership] heard [exiled Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi] said the new Iran will normalize relations with Israel, and this drove the [Saudi and Qatari] leadership crazy. Imagine Iran and Israel together... the Shi'a and the Jews together; it's their biggest nightmare." — Edy Cohen, research fellow at the Israel Center for Grand Strategy, jewishinsider.com, January 28, 2026.
* "Now, with the Saudis no longer celebrating the Abraham Accords, they are trying to undermine their foundations of support, from Morocco to the Emirates... 'If I don't fly, nobody flies.'" — Amit Segal, Israeli journalist, January 22, 2026.
* Saudi Arabia's latest anti-Israel campaign raises serious questions about the kingdom's purported desire to join the Abraham Accords in the first place, as well as the long-term reliability of other professed allies: in particular Qatar, Turkey, Russia and Pakistan.
* Over the past few years, Mohammed bin Salman found excuses to procrastinate, often by conditioning normalization with Israel on the establishment of a Palestinian terror state next to Israel. In the aftermath of the October 7 massacre, it is obvious that such a state would pose an existential threat to Israel, as would the presence of Qatar, Turkey, Hamas, Russia and Pakistan planted on the Gaza Strip when Trump will no longer be in office to guard it.
* Perhaps this is the right time for Trump to reconsider his ties with bin Salman -- and other putative "friends" -- and cancel the recent contract to sell the Saudis that fleet of F-35 stealth fighter jets.

Both Israeli and Arab political analysts recently have pointed out that Saudi Arabia's renewed anti-Israel and antisemitic rhetoric shows that the kingdom is moving away from normalization with Israel in favor of an alliance with the Muslim Brotherhood, Qatar and Turkey, especially now that the US has approved Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman's request for American tanks and F-35 stealth fighter jets. Pictured: Bin Salman shakes hands with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara, on June 22, 2022. (Photo by Adem Altan/AFP via Getty Images)

In December 2025, Sheikh Saleh bin Abdallah bin Humaid, a prominent imam of the Grand Mosque in Mecca and a member of Saudi Arabia's Council of Senior Scholars, delivered a Friday sermon in which he prayed for God to punish "the Jews" and described Israel as a "cruel Zionist entity."

"Oh Allah, deal with the Jews who have seized and occupied, for they cannot escape your power," bin Humaid said. "Oh Allah, send upon them your punishment and misery, that can never be repelled by the wrongdoers. Oh Allah, we seek your protection from their harms, and we seek refuge with you from their evils."

The imam praised Palestinian children as "among the most joyful examples and noble images are the young children of Palestine."

"Heroic children whose fathers were killed while they watched and whose homes were demolished while they witnessed," he said. "Jerusalem and Palestine will remain high and lofty in the hearts of Arabs and Muslims."

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