The US and Saudi Arabia are putting the final touches on a landmark deal that sources say will be presented to Binyamin Netanyahu within weeks.
They will give the Israeli prime minister a choice: his legacy can be marred by the war in Gaza or burnished with a historic treaty.
Those familiar with the agreement say the US will offer Saudi Arabia a defence pact and assistance in building a civil nuclear plant, as well as co-operation in developing artificial intelligence. In return, Saudi Arabia will finally follow its neighbours who signed treaties to establish diplomatic relations with Israel in 2020.
Netanyahu was prime minister when those treaties, known as the Abraham Accords, were signed with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. When he was
