Cost Of Saudi/Israeli Normalization
CDHR Analysis: Normalizing diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel with U.S. mediation is seen by many as an applaudable diplomatic step toward regional stability and economic prosperity. But is it? In return for the Saudi government’s acceptance of normalization, President Biden has to commit the U.S. to protecting the absolute Saudi monarchy, which has sided with America’s arch enemies time and again. By committing the U.S. to an open-ended military commitment to protect an oppressive ruling family whose domestic cruelty and regional destabilizing aggressive policies have been major sources of regional volatility, Biden continues the U.S.’s decades-old failed policy, as boldly stated by former Secretary of State Doctor Condoleezza Rice, “For 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region here in the Middle East — and we achieved neither.” With fifty years in state and national public service and extensive