US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Saudi Arabia for talks on normalization with Israel as he pushes for a ceasefire in Gaza. The normalization deal is seen as unlikely as Riyadh is now conditioning it on the establishment of a Palestinian state, which Israel rejects.
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