Haaretz, May 21, 2017

 

Arab media's silence following reports of Saudi Arabia and Gulf States' plans for normalization with Israel suggests solid foundations. Its timing arises from the common interests of Arab leaders and Israel's right wing

 

 

The leaders of most of the Arab countries have much in common with Israel’s right wing.

[...] Trump and Saudi King Salman will sign two agreements worth hundreds of billions of dollars. One involves a huge weapons deal of about $100 billion to start, with an option to grow to $300 billion over a decade. The second is a Saudi investment deal in infrastructure in the United States of about $40 billion dollars.