Opinion: Why tying a Saudi nuclear deal to Israel is a strategic mistake

Opinion: Why tying a Saudi nuclear deal to Israel is a strategic mistake The future of US-Saudi Arabia relations may hinge less on grand declarations than on Washington's ability to distinguish between strategic interests and political aspirations. If the United States conditions a civilian nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia on the kingdom's immediate accession to the Abraham Accords, it would be collapsing two fundamentally different policy objectives into a single diplomatic test. Such an approach may appear to