Saudi Arabia

Prince William courts Saudi Arabia while Israel remains untouchable

It would be a striking gesture were the heir – or the King – to visit the Jewish state soon, signalling solidarity with a democracy facing multi-front threats, including from Iran. It would also acknowledge that those threats are aimed at Britain, too

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February 12, 2026 16:49

Prince William and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (Image: Andrew Parsons / Kensington Palace)

By Yaakov Katz

Netanyahu returns to Washington as Gulf unity on Iran splinters

That shift away from Israel has produced warmer Saudi ties with Turkey and Qatar – countries once viewed with deep suspicion in Riyadh and Abu Dhabi.

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February 11, 2026 16:48

US President Donald Trump (R) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on December 29, 2025. (Image: Getty)

By Hussain Abdul-Hussain

Why Saudi Arabia is turning back to Islamism – and against Israel

Economic strain and domestic pressure are pushing Riyadh toward a regional realignment. Washington ought to pay attention

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February 6, 2026 13:57

US President Donald Trump greets Crown Prince and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman on November 18, 2025. (Image: Getty)

By Stephen Pollard

Saudi Arabia deciding what’s a “normal country”? That’s comedy gold

Holding Israel to account only highlights its high standards of tolerance, diversity and equality – unlike the kingdom

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December 24, 2025 08:37

Prince Turki Al-Faisal said Israel must act like a "normal country" for Saudi Arabia to establish relations (Photo by Leigh Vogel/Getty Images)

Saudi Arabia won’t agree normalisation until Israel acts like a ‘normal country’, claims former intelligence chief

Prince Turki al-Faisal claimed that Jerusalem has been unwilling to ‘pay the price of peace’ in the past

By Jacob Jaffa

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December 23, 2025 13:11

Former Saudi intelligence chief Prince Turki al-Faisal (Getty Images)

By Aharon Lapidot

How a US-Saudi F-35 deal could shatter Israel’s aerial dominance

Will Washington find a way to preserve the additional edge on which Israeli security policy has relied for decades?

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November 18, 2025 15:16

The Adir F-35I fighter jet during the 'Blue Flag', an international aerial training exercise at the Ovda air force base, Southern Israel, November 11, 2019 (Flash90)

Trump confirms US will sell F-35s to Saudi Arabia

The move has been opposed by the IDF, with some commentators suggesting it could threaten Israel’s security

By Jacob Jaffa

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November 18, 2025 15:00

President Trump meets Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the Saudi Royal Court on May 13, 2025, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Getty Images)

Saudi Arabia likely to join Abraham Accords by end of year, says Trump

The presidents comments were published shortly before an Israeli minister apologised for ‘inappropriate’ comments he made about the Gulf kingdom

By Jacob Jaffa

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October 24, 2025 10:38

US President Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attend a signing ceremony at the Saudi Royal Court on May 13, 2025, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Getty Images)

By The JC Leader

Israel’s victory deal could transform the region

Nearly two years after October 7, Israel and key Arab states have lined up behind a Trump-brokered Gaza plan – with Europe and Britain reduced to irrelevance and blood libels

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September 30, 2025 14:50

Trump greets Netanyahu as he arrives at the White House on September 29, 2025 in Washington, DC (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

US and Saudi strike Iran-backed militia in Iraq after failed ‘surprise attack’

Trump says Saudi nuclear deal conditional on normalisation with Israel

Herzog: ‘I dream of peace with Saudi’

The Iran deal hasn’t ended Arab cooperation with Jerusalem – but it has forced it underground

Saudi Crown Prince pushing for US to continue Iran War

Israel in talks with Gulf states after Iran strikes civilian areas

Saudi Arabia’s ‘last Jew’ dies aged 82

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How a US-Saudi F-35 deal could shatter Israel’s aerial dominance

Trump confirms US will sell F-35s to Saudi Arabia

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