• After actively having conversations with US lawmakers, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman fears for his life after trying to negotiate a deal for normalisation with Israel.
• Even after 40,000 deaths, MBS still strives for normalisation with the Zionist state, only to be haunted by assassination.
Amid the ongoing genocide in Gaza, which has now cost the lives of at least 40,000 people, majority women and children, crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman has continued to try and negotiate a normalisation deal with Israel. Initially, after the Gaza genocide began, the deal was put on hold, but in January, after three months of genocide, talks resumed. According to high-profile anonymous sources who spoke to POLITICO, an American news outlet, crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman appears intent on striking a colossal deal with the US and Israel despite the risks involved.
So who does MBS fear could be responsible for his demise?
“The way he put it was, ‘Saudis care very deeply about this, and the street throughout the Middle East cares deeply about this, and my tenure as the keeper of the holy sites of Islam will not be secure if I don’t address what is the most pressing issue of justice in our region,’” said one of the people with knowledge of conversations MBS has had with regional and American leaders. It can be evident from previous statements and conversations that MBS had with officials that he has a good level of carelessness for the Palestinian people, as he once himself told the Palestinian people to ‘shut up’ and accept the unfair, unjust peace deals that were proposed to them. From what seems to be a rough summary of his statement above, it becomes clear that Bin Salman fears his own civilian population as he mentions the word ‘street’. Although it is true that Saudi Arabia is a repressive and autocratic country, the sentiment among the people on the street in Saudi Arabia is heavily pro-Palestinian, and ever since October 7, it has become even more pro-Hamas. Support for Hamas has more than quadrupled since the start of the genocide in Gaza, and seeing as an autocratic regime in Bangladesh was removed in a matter of weeks after being in power for 16 years, the end of the Saudi regime may be a real fear for Mohammed Bin Salman.
MBS has a track record of betraying the Arab world
Former Saudi spy chief Saad Aljabri, who is in hiding in Canada, said in the summer of 2015, when Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS) was a defence minister, that MBS encouraged Russian intervention into the Syrian civil war at a time when Russia was not a party to the war. It was Russian intervention that was the main thing that turned the civil war in favour of the Iranian-backed Syrian president Assad at a time when the oppressive regime looked like it was about to fall. During the civil war, hundreds of thousands of Arab Muslims were killed by the Syrian regime and Russia. The mere fact that Mohammed Bin Salman encouraged intervention to squash Arab Muslim rebels by Russia and reverse the tide of the war is a clear indication that Mohammed Bin Salman does not care about the Arab world, and therefore there is enough reason for us to believe he does not care about the Palestinian people or the Palestinian cause. The reason Mohammed Bin Salman may be pushing for Palestinian statehood as part of the negotiations for normalisation is therefore out of fear of being faced with an overthrow from his own people. It’s also possible, seeing as the genocide in Gaza is brewing with a regional conflict with Hezbollah and Iran, that MBS’s urge to push for a Palestinian peace deal as part of the normalisation is to keep the region stable for the benefit of Saudi Arabia.
Why is there such a drive by the Saudis to push for normalisation with Israel?
After a string of normalisations between Arab states and Israel over the past five years, it makes the average Arab wonder: What is causing this push? The reality is that a lot of Arab countries see Israel as holding the keys to western investment opportunities. They believe that investment and support, whether it be in the form of arm sales, tech firms, or even intelligence support, can be obtained through normalisation and therefore view a normalisation deal as attaining those keys.
