Saudi Arabia has resumed talks with the U.S. about forging closer defense ties. The dialogue had been suspended after a pause following the start of the Israel-Hamas war in early October of last year, according to Bloomberg. It is reported that in early January, negotiations took place in the town of Alula in northwestern Saudi Arabia between the de-facto ruler, 38-year-old Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and a group of U.S. senators. On the agenda was a revival of earlier negotiations about a defense pact that would also have included a historic tie-up between Saudi Arabia and Israel. The a…