{"id":69040,"date":"2022-07-11T15:04:18","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T13:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/?p=69040"},"modified":"2022-07-12T15:19:18","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T13:19:18","slug":"will-bidens-middle-east-visit-play-a-role-in-saudi-israeli-normalisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/will-bidens-middle-east-visit-play-a-role-in-saudi-israeli-normalisation\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Biden\u2019s Middle East visit play a role in Saudi Israeli normalisation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"69041\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/will-bidens-middle-east-visit-play-a-role-in-saudi-israeli-normalisation\/capture-12\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Capture-12.jpg?fit=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"300,200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Capture-12\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Capture-12.jpg?fit=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69041\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Capture-12.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>By Neelam Rahim<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a discussion with<em> Radio Islam International<\/em>, Hafez Ebrahim Moosa says that Joe Biden, the United States President, is travelling to the Middle East for his tour starting on Wednesday, which will continue until Friday.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cIt starts meeting the Israeli, and by Friday, you will be in Saudi Arabia as per the plans. In that facility are going to be visiting or meeting up with a key as well as the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Many analysts are saying that the key reason for this visit is all about the Ukrainian crisis and the rising global oil prices, and an attempt to convince Saudi Arabia to increase its oil output,\u201d says Hafez Ebrahim.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Hafez Ebrahim also tells\u00a0<em>Radio Islam<\/em> that \u201cdespite this being the official reason for this visit, many people are saying that the American President is trying to portray this in a certain way to show that he\u2019s not desperate for Saudi assistance.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In an Op-Ed in The Washington Post and recent press comments, Joe Biden has said quite clearly that this visit has to do with national security. That is for the Israelis. He also said part of this trip to the Middle East is to deepen Israel\u2019s integration into the region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cMost analysts are saying no, we are not going to be seeing some dramatic announcement of normalisation; we\u2019re just going to see a continued continuation of the path of incremental normalisation. So there\u2019s going to be an agreement on the transfer of sovereignty of two islands that belonged previously to Egypt and will be to Saudi Arabia. This requires Israeli consent because of the location that they\u2019re in,\u201d says Hafez Ebrahim.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Listen to <em>Radio Islam&#8217;s<\/em> podcast below for more on this.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Will Biden\u2019s Middle East visit play a role in Saudi Israeli normalisation? by Radio Islam International\" width=\"1080\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1303295917&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;maxwidth=1080\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Neelam Rahim In a discussion with Radio Islam International, Hafez Ebrahim Moosa says that Joe Biden, the United States President, is travelling to the Middle East for his tour starting on Wednesday, which will continue until Friday. \u201cIt starts meeting the Israeli, and by Friday, you will be in Saudi Arabia as per the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[132,5451],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion-and-analysis","category-political"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Capture-12.jpg?fit=300%2C200&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pc0QIf-hXy","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-06 18:19:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}