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Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Sullivan postpones planned trip to Saudi Arabia where he was slated to discuss Israel normalization
Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief
US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan has postponed this week’s planned trip to Saudi Arabia where he was reportedly slated to discuss a major agreement with the Biden administration that would see Riyadh receive major security guarantees from Washington while normalizing ties with Israel.
White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby tells reporters in a briefing that a minor accident in which Sullivan cracked one of his ribs contributed to the decision to postpone the trip.
Kirby doesn’t say whether the deadly Israeli strike on aid workers in Gaza on Monday also led to the postponement, as Riyadh reportedly chills on the idea of normalizing with the Jewish state amid increased international opposition to the war against the Hamas terror group in Gaza.
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