American Ambassador for Religious Freedom Sam Brownback said that Saudi officials expressed to him in private meetings their desire to open up to Israel, after the UAE and Bahrain had normalized with the Israeli occupation.
The US ambassador - in an interview with Al Jazeera - expressed his hope that those dialogues would turn into action.
It is noteworthy that US President Donald Trump announced last August 3 the normalization of the UAE with Israel, and after less than a month he appended to Bahrain announcing the same thing.
Trump expected Saudi Arabia to join the agreement, which he called "Abraham", and would lead to the full normalization of relations with Israel.
As for Saudi Arabia, it announced - according to its foreign minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud - that normalization between his country and Israel is conceivable in the end.
The Saudi minister said - in statements he made last month to the Washington Institute - that bringing the Palestinians and Israelis to the negotiating table should be a priority at the current stage.
He added at the time, "We are committed to peace, which is a strategic necessity for the region, and normalization with Israel in the end is part of that, and this is what the Arab peace plan suggested and what was included in the Kingdom's proposal in 1981, so we always imagine that normalization will take place, but we must also have a state." Palestinian and a Palestinian-Israeli peace plan. "
And the Saudi Press Agency had reported in early September that the General Authority of Civil Aviation had agreed to allow the passage of the Kingdom's airspace for flights coming to and departing from the UAE for all countries.
Based on the decision, flights between the UAE and Israel will be able to fly over Saudi Arabia, which reduces the flight time between them by several hours.