{"id":648530,"date":"2026-10-16T19:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T19:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/648530\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T19:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T19:58:10","slug":"trump-says-israel-saudi-normalization-back-on-the-table-riyadh-very-happy-with-israels-defensive-support-against-houthis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/648530\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Says Israel-Saudi Normalization &#8216;back On The Table,&#8217; Riyadh &#8216;very Happy&#8217; With Israel&#8217;s Defensive Support Against Houthis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">US President Donald Trump said Friday that normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia was \u201cback on the table,\u201d saying Riyadh was pleased with Israeli and American support against Yemen\u2019s Iran-backed Houthi rebels.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Houthi escalates strikes against Saudi Arabian instrastructure\" class=\"Lazy_poster__hZbms\" data-is=\"lazy-image\" data-observed-item-id=\"https:\/\/i24israel.vod.immergo.tv\/i24israel\/api-uploaded\/WILDMOKA_69937528889.jpg\"\/>Houthi escalates strikes against Saudi Arabian instrastructure<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">\u201cMaybe more than ever,\u201d Trump told reporters at the White House when asked about Saudi Arabia joining the Abraham Accords. \u201cSaudi Arabia is very happy to have Israel\u2019s support and our support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">Asked whether Riyadh should accept Israeli assistance against the Houthis, Trump said he believed it would. \u201cIsrael has been very helpful to Saudi Arabia,\u201d he added, without specifying what assistance Israel had provided.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">His comments followed a surge in Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia, including strikes on energy infrastructure and Riyadh\u2019s international airport that disrupted flights and threatened the kingdom\u2019s economic ambitions.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Saudi Arabia looks to allies for support amid deadly Houthi attacks\" class=\"Lazy_poster__hZbms\" data-is=\"lazy-image\" data-observed-item-id=\"https:\/\/i24israel.vod.immergo.tv\/i24israel\/api-uploaded\/WILDMOKA_69831337558.jpg\"\/>Saudi Arabia looks to allies for support amid deadly Houthi attacks<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">Saudi Arabia has maintained that normalization requires a credible path to Palestinian statehood. Washington has sought to bring the kingdom into the Abraham Accords, the normalization framework established during Trump\u2019s first term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump said Friday that normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia was \u201cback on the table,\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-648530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}