Ibrahim Fraihat

The Sep­tem­ber 14 at­tack on Aram­co has forced Sau­di Ara­bia to re­vise its poli­cies to­wards the re­gion and the GCC.

Kush­n­er’s plan re­cy­cles failed past pro­pos­als and will clear­ly not suc­ceed. But was it meant to in the first place?

The cease­fire in Gaza has desta­bilised Ne­tanyahu’s gov­ern­ment, yet he has no oth­er choice but to com­mit to it.

The Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion is strug­gling to se­cure po­lit­i­cal sup­port for the ‘ul­ti­mate deal’.

Apart from be­ing dis­as­trous for Pales­tine, nor­mal­is­ing re­la­tions with Is­rael could get Sau­di Ara­bia in real trou­ble.

Pales­tini­ans should not waste their time by ex­pect­ing con­crete re­sults from Jared Kush­n­er’s me­di­a­tion ef­forts.

It seems ISIL has recog­nised the val­ue of us­ing Pales­tine to ap­peal to the hearts and minds of the re­gion.