In policy shift, White House links Israel-Saudi normalization to Palestinian statehood
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The fallout from Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks in Israel has rattled the US-led Middle East order.
Iran has carefully exploited the crisis, helping proxy militias stage unrelenting missile attacks on international commercial shipping and harass US and coalition forces.
The effect so far has been to bog down down the US Navy in the southern Red Sea (while the region’s real powder keg lies on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, between Israel and Hezbollah) and to foment a new diplomatic row that could threaten to dislodge the US military’s footprint in Iraq.
