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MBS Says John Kirby Needs Some Mouth Wash
Saudi Arabia isn't happy with claims made by NSC spokesperson John Kirby:
On-the-Record Press Gaggle by NSC Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby – White House, Feb 6 2024
Q Hey, Kirby. Thank you so much for doing this. When America is talking about a hostages deal, is it part of a bigger deal of normalization with Saudi Arabia, or are we talking about two different paths here?
MR. KIRBY: No, these are two different things. […]
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At the same time, we were, before the 7th of October, and are still now having discussions with our counterparts in the region, Israel and Saudi Arabia — obviously, the two key ones — about trying to move forward with a normalization arrangement between Israel and Saudi Arabia.
So those discussions are ongoing as well. We certainly received positive feedback from both sides that they’re willing to continue to have those discussions. But that is a separate track and not related specifically to trying to get this extended humanitarian pause in place. Both are really important though.
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Kirby says US received ‘positive feedback’ on Israel-Saudi normalization talks – Times of Israel (via Reuters), Feb 6 2024
The Biden administration has received positive feedback that Saudi Arabia and Israel are willing to continue to have normalization discussions, White House National Security spokesman John Kirby tells reporters today. …
The Saudis disagreed with that characterization:
Foreign Ministry 🇸🇦 @KSAmofaEN – 0:09 UTC · Feb 7, 2024
A Statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding the discussions between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United States of America on the Arab-Israeli peace process.
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From the statement:
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The Kingdom has communicated its firm position to the U.S. administration that there will be no diplomatic relations with Israel unless an independent Palestinian state is recognized on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capitol, and that the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip stops and all Israeli occupation forces withdraw from the Gaza strip.
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Added comment:
asad abukhalil أسعد أبو خليل @asadabukhalil – 2:04 UTC · Feb 7, 2024
This Saudi foreign ministry statement is unusual and it announces that Gaza will form an earthquake in Arab politics. MbS in his policies on Palestine disregarded Saudi and Arab public opinion. This statement tells us that he is retrenching and adjusting. Kushner on hold.
Just to make it clear. I am not saying it is a good statement. But before Gaza MbS merely asked for “easing the lives of Palestinians”. Nothing else.
fyi, this is the entire response by Kirby to the question cited by b, in the published transcript:
MR. KIRBY: No, these are two different things. We’re working very hard, as I mentioned to Steve, to try to come to closure on another hostage deal and an extended pause that will allow us to get the remaining hostages home with their families, to get more assistance in, and certainly to reduce harm to civilians. Obviously, we’d like to have something that’s longer in length than a week that we were able to achieve back in November — again, to be as thorough as we can be on getting those hostages home.
And then, you know, once that gets put in place then, you know, we’ll have to see where it goes from there, assuming that both sides meet their commitments.
At the same time, we were, before the 7th of October, and are still now having discussions with our counterparts in the region, Israel and Saudi Arabia — obviously, the two key ones — about trying to move forward with a normalization arrangement between Israel and Saudi Arabia.
So those discussions are ongoing as well. We certainly received positive feedback from both sides that they’re willing to continue to have those discussions. But that is a separate track and not related specifically to trying to get this extended humanitarian pause in place. Both are really important though.
(emphasis added)
And you’ll notice the disgusting shit that he’s talking here, unrelated to KSA. This American nazi genocidist is saying, in effect, “Oh maybe we’ll stop slaughtering, starving, torturing, sniping, bombarding, shelling, and kidnapping the two million or so people of Gaza for more than a week. Maybe we’ll stop doing those things for eight days, or even 10 days or 30 days, or even with Satan’s approval we might take a pause for 90 days. Wouldn’t that be fuck’n awesome? But as you may have guessed, I’m not authorized to speculate on whether our wonderful friends in Israel—you know, the government and those good ol’ boys and gals blockading the UN and Red Crescent aid trucks at the border crossings—would actually let in any food, water, medicine or fuel during a “humanitarian pause” because, you know, all those items I mentioned could be “dual use” and we can’t let Hamas take advantage of our kindness. And our extremely truthful friends in Israel have assured us that every single living thing in Gaza is a member of Hamas, and of course we know from our own intelligence that all members of Hamas are terrorists. So we have to be very careful not to give any assistance to these terrorists under the pretext of a “humanitarian pause” because our munificent friends in Israel may see this as a potential security threat and we can’t be having that. I want to also take this opportunity to point out that when you see pictures on Twitter of dead and mangled Palestinian babies, the Israeli air force has pinpoint targeted these individuals after receiving credible intelligence that they were planning to carry out terrorist acts against Israel within the next 18 years and so this is legitimate self defense by the great and democratic Jewish state of Israel. So after the hostages have been returned to their families and we’ve managed to get some more munitions to the IDF, we’ll resume our mission, Satan willing, to eliminate every last Hamas terrorist. I hope that answers your question. Next please.”
Posted by: tawharanui | Feb 7 2024 8:46 utc | 20
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