Topic - Jonathan Schanzer

“As long as the scenes on Saudi television continue to be scenes of devastation and misery in Gaza, I think it’s going to be very hard for MBS to move in this direction,” said Jonathan Schanzer, executive director at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a hawkish Washington think tank.

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He noted past talks about splitting Gaza into sectors, with foreign powers taking control of each one, but “the problem has been that no Arab state, not the U.S., not the EU, no one has stepped forth and said, ‘We are ready to build.’”

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