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Analysis: While Saudi demands for US weapons and nuclear energy are real, Riyadh is also likely testing the water to see what's possible in Washington as the costs of normalising ties with Israel still far outweigh the benefits.

The Israeli weapons company's plans to open two factories in Morocco is the latest step in Rabat's normalisation with Tel Aviv. But just like in the UK, Palestine solidarity activists have vowed to make it a difficult task, writes Huda Ammori.

Saudi Arabia has opposed establishing diplomatic ties with Israel, despite a normalisation push in the region.

A visit by Biden in July 2022 to the kingdom did little to ease tensions, and increasingly, Riyadh has looked to reassert its regional clout, while growing less interested in being aligned with US priorities in the region.

The Israeli event in Bahrain was criticised online, with one user saying: 'Throwing Palestinians under the bus to provide aid and comfort to war criminals, outrageous!'

US National Security Adviser Jack Sullivan says his country was working to normalise ties between Israel and Saudi Arabia.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said 'normalisation and peace' with Saudi Arabia would be 'perhaps a giant leap towards ending the Arab-Israeli conflict'.

An official Israel Twitter account "congratulated" Saudi Arabia on its Founding Day holidaon Tuesday, amid increasing speculations regarding normalisation between the two countries.

Meetings took place between Israel and Saudi Arabia in the lead-up to the US-Gulf Cooperation Council Working Group gathering on defence and security in the Saudi capital Riyadh earlier this week, Bloomberg reported.

General-Major Mohamed Benouali toured several Israeli military sites as part of a visit to 'strengthen cooperation and coordination' between the two countries' militaries.