Zionists are concerned about Trump's rapprochement with the Saudis

A senior expert at the Tel Aviv University Security Think Tank expressed Tel Aviv's concern about the Trump administration's changing policies and priorities regarding Middle East issues in a note published on Wednesday on the news site of the Zionist Regime’s Channel 12 television.

In this regard, Yoel Juszinski wrote that President Trump's upcoming trip to the GCC countries, especially Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates, will be Trump's first foreign policy achievement in his new presidency, but from Israel's perspective, this move appears to be a worrying development that could in itself lead to a decline in Israel's regional position and the erosion of its hold on American public opinion as the main defender of supreme strategic interests.

According to this Zionist analyst, Trump once again acted in his relations with the GCC countries in the same way that distinguished his first term.

Diplomacy based on the principle of mutual and transparent benefit - economic, security, and technological - without any trace of liberal or democratic pretensions.

All relations with the GCC countries are conducted through a trade-off, including arms for oil, investment for security support, and access to technology for geopolitical loyalty.

Another part of the report also mentions the security dimension of this cooperation: The GCC countries are trying to transform a historical alliance based on the fluid concept of US commitment into a formal and binding agreement. They want assurances from the United States that Washington will support them in the event of a conflict with Iran, even if this action comes at a huge cost to the US government, although it is expected that we will see temporary security commitments from the American side during this visit, commitments that do not usually require congressional approval.

However, among the more sensitive issues in the test case is Saudi Arabia’s plan for nuclear cooperation with the United States. Saudi Arabia wants its right to enrich uranium on its soil to be recognized, an issue that has gained legitimacy from a similar move by Iran, but giving the green light to such an issue could be a dangerous innovation, both in the context of negotiations with Tehran and in providing incentives for other Middle Eastern countries to develop nuclear technology.

According to this analyst, the framework of regional variables is a clear sign that Israel is gradually losing its unique position in the American political scene, although relations between Washington and Jerusalem are still strong in the security and intelligence dimensions, but they have become more ambiguous in the political and diplomatic dimensions.

The issue of reconciliation between Israel and Saudi Arabia, which was widely discussed during the previous US administration, has now almost completely fallen off the agenda. In addition, according to existing reports, Saudi Arabia itself has requested that this issue not be raised publicly in light of the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip and Israel's position regarding the failure to consider a political solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

This is while Saudi Arabia has declared the two-state solution as a fundamental condition for developing relations with Israel. In these circumstances, there will be no news of an agreement or a reconciliation process.

The US position towards Qatar also differs from Israel's. Israel criticizes Qatar for its relations with Hamas, but Washington is currently a strategic partner of Qatar. These relations deepened during the Biden administration, but there is no sign of a change in this position under Trump, and the opposite could also be true.

If this is the case, Israel is facing a new strategic situation today, which is summed up in the decline of its influence in shaping US policies in the Middle East. In fact, its position as a preferred parameter has been weakened. The US's closeness to Saudi Arabia is no longer related to Saudi Arabia's desire to be close to Israel, which in itself is another reason for this fact.