{"id":8744,"date":"2023-10-15T14:33:37","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T09:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/israel-saudi-arabia-will-rely-on-backchannels-as-peace-deal-falls-apart-following-hamas-attack-expert\/"},"modified":"2023-10-15T14:33:37","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T09:03:37","slug":"israel-saudi-arabia-will-rely-on-backchannels-as-peace-deal-falls-apart-following-hamas-attack-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/israel-saudi-arabia-will-rely-on-backchannels-as-peace-deal-falls-apart-following-hamas-attack-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel, Saudi Arabia will rely on backchannels as peace deal falls apart following Hamas attack: expert"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Saudi Arabia indicated that it will shift its focus from talks with Israel to talks with Iran following the Hamas terrorist attack last week, but an expert told Fox News Digital that a normalization deal isn\u2019t off the table.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“The Saudi-Israeli relationship has actually been ongoing now for, you know, months, if not years under the table,” Dr. Jonathan Schanzer, senior vice president for research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Fox News Digital.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“The relationship will exist whether there is, you know, any normalization or not,” he added, stressing that “normalization is a process, not an event” that will likely continue “below the radar \u2026 regardless of what happens here.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
At least 3,200 people have been killed since Hamas launched thousands of missiles into Israel last week, including at least 1,300 Israeli civilians and soldiers and 27 Americans. Palestinian health authorities say at least 2,215 Palestinians have been killed and more than 8,700 wounded.<\/p>\n
ISRAELI SURVIVORS OF HAMAS TERROR ATTACK RECOUNT HARROWING BRUTALITY, HEROISM<\/strong><\/p>\n Some experts suggested that the attack occurred in response to recent reports, including during an interview with Bret Baier, Fox News chief political anchor and anchor and executive editor of “Special Report with Bret Baier” with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, that Saudi Arabia and Israel had neared a point of agreement on normalized relations.\u00a0<\/p>\n The move would have been a major victory for the parties involved, but a major setback\u00a0for Iran,\u00a0which has long supported Hamas terrorism in Gaza.<\/p>\n