BEIRUT, LEBANON (Analysis) -- On Monday, pictures of Israeli journalist Ben Tzion, posing inside Prophet Muhammad's mosque in Medina, Saudi Arabia, inundated Arab news outlets and social media. Tzion held a bag with Hebrew
The Saudi Religious Establishment Pushes Normalizing Relations With Israel
No matter how hard the Saudi media machine struggles to justify official normalization with Israel on political, economic and security grounds, it will not reach its goal without providing Saudi Arabia’s hardline Sunni establishment with a religious justification.
