According to the official announcement of the White House, Biden will travel to Saudi Arabia in the middle of next month; What is to be gained on this trip by both Saudi Arabia and the United States will be analyzed by the political experts in the coming days.
Faraan: Saudi Arabia, happy to see Biden in the king’s palace, hopes to reduce the White House Democrats’ focus on Saudi human rights issues, facilitate and guarantee the transfer of power in Saudi Arabia, and finally confront an imaginary enemy called Iran.
Biden, on the other hand, travels to Saudi Arabia to lubricate a project to normalize relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel. Other than this, he intends to make the most of the Saudi capacity to manage the energy crisis caused by the Ukraine war. Needless to say, the most important part is replacing Israel with Iran as a common enemy of the Arabs and Israel and satisfy the common Hebrew-Western interests. One of the goals of the visit is to emphasize the formation of a Security Council with the participation of governments such as Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Jordan and Sudan with Israel. An assembly whose formation, albeit in appearance and in words, means nothing more than Saudi Arabia joining the project of normalizing relations with Israel. Of course, the failed experience of forming an “Arab NATO” against Iran is still ahead of the so-called 80 member states and the United States.
During the trip, it seems that after a long time, the two islands of ‘Tiran’ and ‘Sanafir’ will be separated from Egypt and given to Saudi Arabia. Although this can be described as a success in bin Salman’s basket, the fact is that, first, the two Sunni islands belonged to Saudi Arabia and were temporarily ceded to Egypt during the Arab-Israeli war, but were never returned to Saudi Arabia. Secondly, the transfer or return of the two islands to Saudi Arabia will be done under conditions defined by Israel and the United States, including the complete disarmament of the two islands and the intense focus of Saudi security so that there is no danger to the regime from these two areas. Finally, with this re-assignment, the two regions of “Eilat” and “Aqaba” will once and for all be protected from possible harms caused by those interested in the Palestinian issue and the enemies of Israel.
In the light of what Biden’s visit to Saudi Arabia, he will (to the best of his ability) supply the West with energy during the Ukraine crisis. In Tiran and Sanafir, the only thing he receives are some promises against an imaginary and mental enemy called Iran. This is while, firstly, the Saudis themselves, and secondly, the Americans and Israel, thirdly, are well aware and believe that Iran has never been and will never be a threat to Saudi Arabia and other countries in the region. The countries that join the US and Israel in forming a security forum designed against Iran will in fact be a complement to the decades-long US-Iran project and, in practice, supply fuel for the train to normalize Arab-Israeli relations. It seems clear from now on who will stand behind the negotiating table between Saudi Arabia and the United States with full arms.
