Report: MBS told Blinken normalization deal won’t be possible this year without ceasefire within weeks

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh on February 5, 2024. (Saudi foreign ministry/ X)
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh on February 5, 2024. (Saudi foreign ministry/ X)

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told US Secretary of State Antony Blinken that the window for reaching an Israel-Saudi normalization agreement this year would close unless a ceasefire could be reached in Gaza within weeks, The Wall Street Journal reports, citing unnamed Arab officials briefed on their meeting earlier this week.

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