Is Trump Pivoting in his Middle East Policy? New $142 Billion Arms Deal to Saudi Arabia Announced – “Largest in History”

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by Brian Shilhavy, Health Impact News:

President Donald Trump and his entourage arrived in Saudi Arabia today for an economic summit that included many American CEOs, such as Elon Musk, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, IBM’s Arvind Krishna, Citicorp’s Jane Fraser, Boeing’s Kelly Ortberg, NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang, Palantir’s Alex Karp and BlackRock’s Larry Fink.

As a precondition to letting Trump and these American CEOs attend this conference, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman made it clear that any discussion about normalizing relationships between Saudi Arabia and Israel, was OFF LIMITS.

It looks like the Abraham Accords proposal is now dead in the water.

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Trump seemingly obliged to these conditions, and did not even include Israel on this trip. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was scheduled to visit Israel just before this trip, but ended up canceling it at the last minute.

There are a lot of issues and news stories resulting from this trip, but to me, the biggest news story is that Trump has reportedly agreed to sell Saudi Arabia an arms package worth $142 billion, “the largest defense cooperation agreement in history.”

By comparison, Trump approved military sales to Israel last month amounting to $12 billion. (Source.)

Time reports:

Trump Announces $142 Billion Arms Deal with Saudi Arabia

The U.S. has agreed to sell Saudi Arabia an arms package worth nearly $142 billion, the White House announced Tuesday, as President Donald Trump kicked off his Middle East trip in Riyadh.

Described by the Trump administration as “the largest defense cooperation agreement” in history, the package includes deals with more than a dozen American defense companies in sectors including air and missile defense.

“The deals celebrated today are historic and transformative for both countries and represent a new golden era of partnership between the United States and Saudi Arabia,” the White House said in a statement. (Full article.)

Wow! That takes military spending to a whole new level! And I thought Trump’s tariffs were going to fund tax cuts for Americans?!

So does this mean the U.S. is abandoning Israel now?

I hardly think so. It does look like there is going to be a regime change, however, as Netanyahu is quickly losing support both in Israel, and abroad, as French President Emmanuel Macron today came out and said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s policy regarding humanitarian aid to Gaza is “shameful”, and that Europeans should consider increasing sanctions. (Source.)

But there is no way that Trump is going to abandon the Zionist agenda, as it is what helped get him (s)elected.

Catherine Austin Fitts was just interviewed by Jimmy Dore this week, who asked Fitts about Trump snubbing Netanyahu.

Fitts says:

“I want to see three things from a President who’s really serious about this.

First, he makes AIPAC register as a foreign lobby.

Second, he requires disclosure by any government official or member of Congress as to whether they have dual citizenship in any other country, Israel included.

Third, we stop funding the genocide in Gaza.”

I fully agree. Here is the interview:

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