Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National President Morton A. Klein released the following statement:
People seeking to usher in an era of broad Middle East peace hoped that Saudi Arabia would join the Abraham Accords, ever since moderate Arab nations (the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco) signed the Abraham Accords with the U.S. and Israel in 2020. At times, the Saudis appeared poised to join the Accords. But recently, Saudi Arabia has sharply moved in a dangerous, opposite direction.
Saudi Arabia dramatically increased its alliances with and support for radical Islamist and Muslim Brotherhood regimes – Türkiye, Qatar, Iran, Yemen’s Al Islah; attacked moderate Abraham Accords signer UAE, including attacking an Emirati weapons shipment in Mukalla, Yemen in December 2025 to allow Muslim Brotherhood-allied Al Islah forces to expand; and dramatically increased its antisemitic anti-Israel and anti-UAE propaganda. Saudi Arabia also announced that it would fund a major purchase of Pakistani weapons for the Muslim Brotherhood-allied Sudanese Armed Forces. Saudi Arabia (along with Oman, Turkey, and Qatar) also lobbied the U.S. administration against strikes to stop the radical Islamist Iranian regime from slaughtering Iranian protesters. In mid-January (2026), Saudi Arabia also blocked the U.S. military, and assured Iran that Saudi Arabia would not allow the U.S. to use its airspace or territory to strike the Iranian regime.
A prime example of the current, vicious Saudi anti-Israel, anti-Emirati propaganda appears in an article published on January 22, 2026 in Saudi Arabia’s main pro-Saudi government newspaper, Al-Jazirah [not to be confused with Qatar’s vicious anti-Israel Al Jazeera]. The article accuses the UAE of being “a dagger in the back of the Arab nation and a stupid trap planted by the Zionists to achieve their ambitions in the region”; accuses the UAE “in Sudan, in full coordination with the Zionist entity, [of] provid[ing] all kinds of support to the Rapid Support militia, so they spread chaos and practiced all kinds of pillaging, looting, rape, and ethnic cleansing, and destroyed all hope of returning to unity, security, and stability”; and accuses the UAE of “fall[ing] into the arms of Zionism and accept[ing] that the Emirates will be the Israeli Trojan horse in the Arab world in the hope of being used against the Kingdom and the major Arab countries, and what a betrayal of God and His Messenger and the entire nation!”
Saudi Arabia is clearly changing, no longer pursues peace with Israel, and no longer is moderating its policies. It is moving toward embracing the horrific tenets of the extremist antisemitic Muslim Brotherhood and lobbied in favor of Iran and against America. It condemned UAE for supporting Zionists and claims UAE is weakening Muslim countries in order to dominate them.
Saudi journalists who promote official Saudi government views are regularly proclaiming peace between Jews and Muslims is only possible if Jews convert to Islam!
An editorial in the daily Al Riyadh stated that “wherever Israel is present, there’s ruin and destruction. Israel pursues policies that disregard international law, doesn’t recognize human rights, doesn’t respect sovereignty of states or integrity of their territories, while working to exploit crises and conflicts to deepen divisions.” Saudi opinion writer Rami Al Ali in Okaz condemns the U.S. saying that “Trump’s doctrine represents an era characterized by violent and direct intervention based on exploiting technology and informational superiority to impose a new political reality that aligns with his right-wing populist ideology.” All these troubling views are repeated throughout the Saudi media and even talk shows.
In light of recent developments, ZOA urges the U.S. to reconsider policies such as selling Saudi Arabia the F-35 fighter jets. Saudi Arabia has entered into a strategic mutual defense agreement with radical nuclear-armed Islamist state Pakistan in September 2025, and thus, F-35 technology could fall into Pakistan’s hands; Saudi Arabia restored relations with Iran in 2023 and has continued to deepen those relations; Saudi Arabia co-led a U.N. summit in September 2025 that rewarded Palestinian terror by ratcheting up pressure for establishing a Palestinian Arab terror state on Israel’s land; and pursuant to the China-Saudi strategic partnership, China’s and Saudi Arabia’s naval forces completed Chinese military drills just days prior to the announcement. These concerns have become even more pressing today.