In the poll, 87% of Saudis said the war showed “that Israel is so weak and internally divided that it could be defeated one day.”

The Washington Institute for Middle East Policy published the results of an opinion poll in which it said that 96% of Saudis believe that Arab countries should sever all relations with Israel, in protest against the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip.

The American New York Times said that this poll constitutes a major challenge to the Biden administration’s efforts to establish diplomatic relations with Israel.

40% of respondents in Saudi Arabia expressed positive attitudes towards the Hamas movement, compared to only 10% in a poll conducted several months before the start of the aggression on Gaza.

The poll, conducted by the institute, which is generally considered supportive of Israel, included 1,000 Saudi people from November 14 to December 6.

The New York Times said in a report it published that before the war, “American political analysts confirmed that young Saudis tended to be less interested in the Palestinian issue than previous generations, and therefore, they may be more receptive to the idea of establishing diplomatic relations with Israel,” while opinion polls showed Different, the opposite appears in the Arab countries as a whole, as interest in the Palestinian issue increased after the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip in an unprecedented manner.

According to the newspaper, Saudi officials were pressing “to obtain major concessions from the United States, including access to American nuclear technology and American security guarantees, in exchange for normalizing relations with Israel.”

In the poll, 87% of Saudis said that the war showed “that Israel is so weak and internally divided that it could be defeated one day.”

The poll found that three-quarters of participants support the idea of making an Arab diplomatic effort to achieve peace between the two sides.