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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Ali Harb

Israel ‘normalisation’ takes back seat as Trump announces Saudi deals

US President Donald Trump will visit Qatar and the United Arab Emirates after his visit to Saudi Arabia [Alex Brandon/AP Photo]

Washington, DC – United States President Donald Trump says that forging formal relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel would be a “dream”, but he wants the kingdom to do it on its “own time”.

The White House on Tuesday made public a flurry of economic and defence pacts with Saudi Arabia involving hundreds of billions of dollars, but any mention of Israel was conspicuously absent from the announcements.

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