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Trump's nuclear deal with Saudis jettisons longstanding US demands

Signing a nuclear pact in the Middle East is a bold move that has drawn criticism in the US and in Israel.

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Signing a nuclear pact in the Middle East is a bold move that has drawn criticism in the US and in Israel. The Trump administration's nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia reversed a years-long stance toward a key Middle East ally. Past US presidents insisted that Saudi Arabia normalise relations with Israel in exchange for receiving American nuclear technology for civilian energy programmes. According to reports of the deal's contents, President Donald Trump gave Saudi Arabia what it wanted without extracting concessions for Israel in return, and over objections from critics who argued that it could spark a nuclear arms race in the region. On Thursday he said in a social media post that the nuclear pact was conditioned on Saudi Arabia joining the Abraham Accords, a series of deals reached in his first term that normalised relations between Israel and several other Gulf states. The deal appears to be the latest example of Trump jettisoning the traditional American approach to the Middle East, which centred on Israel and finding a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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