The echoes of the first Saudi public invitation to open an Israeli embassy in Riyadh Sunday 8 July

An article by a Saudi writer calling for normalization with Israel in return for the implementation of the Arab Peace Initiative was greeted with a quick Israeli welcome, amid Arab reactions to networks of anger and resentment. 

In an article published in Saudi Arabia's Al-Khaleej newspaper titled "Yes to an Israeli embassy in Riyadh and normal relations within the Saudi initiative," the writer welcomed the invitation of Israeli Knesset member Yossi Yona to Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman to visit Israel, Former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat did.
"If you want to become a true partner in the peace industry, you have to agree to the Arab initiative and invite the Arab leader and the leader of the Muslim world to Saudi Arabia ," he said. "I do not think that a peacemaker like Mohamed Ben Salman will hesitate to accept that invitation if he is convinced that there is a genuine Israeli desire for peace. " 

The writer also attacked what he called radical Islamist movements that are mercenaries to the Palestinian cause and trade in Palestinian blood. 

After the publication of the article, the account of "Israel in Arabic" of the Israeli Foreign Ministry soon participated in "Twitter", commenting on what the writer said, "We respond that Israel's hand extended to peace to all neighboring countries."

Al-Anzi's position is a clear confirmation of what was reported by Israel's Channel 7 last month of calls by some Saudi academics to open a Saudi embassy in Jerusalem and an Israeli embassy in Riyadh as part of a comprehensive normalization process. "Change of curricula in Arab schools on Judaism, Arab relations with Israel, and to work to accept them psychologically. " 

The channel pointed to the existence of a link between the calls for normalization and the Saudis seek to confront the "Iranian ambition" in the Middle East, as stressed by the Iranian media as well, where the channel revealed the world two and a half ago a tweet of the same writer, A leader of the Arab and Islamic nations, "to cooperate with Israel on the condition of its commitment to the Arab peace initiative, to reduce the" threat of the Persian enemy. "

"Our goal is to expel the ambassadors of the Iranian enemy from the Arab countries and to destroy their program and the establishment of the State of Palestine and Israel's commitment to the borders of 67 and the Arab sanctity in return for the Israeli embassy in Riyadh." 

But comments in the social media on Al-Enezi's article, re-published by many Arab media, suggest that an Arab and even Saudi acceptance of the idea of ​​opening an Israeli embassy in the country of the two Holy Mosques remains elusive. 

The readers of Al-Khaleej newspaper accused Al-Enezi of "submissiveness, humiliation and falling into the arms of the enemies of Allah and the hatred of the people of Islam." They were surprised by the "terrible quantity of fallacies and jokes and your heart for the facts and the things that were thrown out here indifferent to your religion, Arab ", considering that he represents only himself and few like him:" You are one and perhaps you are atheist in a Muslim community condemns the religion of God and works with his book and the year of his prophet. "

He described Emirati journalist Abdullah Rashid al-Enezi and other "liberals" as "a simple group of the ignorant ignorant of the nation who have no identity and do not belong to the values ​​and principles of the Islamic nation." 

The comments showed only rare voices in support of the normalization of relations for peace in accordance with the Arab initiative, and denounced the role of Islamic organizations, especially the "expansion" of Iran. 

There has been no official Arab comment on Al-Enezi's proposals, and the region appears to be launching more than a "test balloon" in the period from the moment it becomes clear the features of the big deal being cooked in Washington.