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Saudi crown prince said he personally 'doesn't care' about Palestinian issue (www.middleeasteye.net)

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According to The Atlantic, Blinken enquired whether the Saudis could tolerate Israel periodically re-entering the territory to strike the besieged Gaza Strip.

“They can come back in six months, a year, but not on the back end of my signing something like this,” Mohammed bin Salman responded.

“Seventy percent of my population is younger than me,” the crown prince explained to Blinken.

“For most of them, they never really knew much about the Palestinian issue. And so they’re being introduced to it for the first time through this conflict. It’s a huge problem. Do I care personally about the Palestinian issue? I don’t, but my people do, so I need to make sure this is meaningful.”

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[–] small44 53 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Most Arab leaders

[–] mlg 4 points 5 hours ago

Might as well be Most Islamic Countries tbh.

Pakistan and Bangladesh buy spyware from Israel.

Turkey and Azerbaijan buy a lot of their arms.

Middle East in general is just screwed because it's mostly US shills.

Dunno enough about Southeast Asia or Africa, but I wouldn't be surprised if they too had ties to Israel.

I still like to think the only nation that made a proper stand was Yemen. Iran was kind of incompetent and is morally corrupt anyways. Lebanon is too fractured to have a chance of a proper leadership imo.

Only the Houthis seemed to make a dent in Israel by attacking their supply line, which did actually have an effect.

Otherwise there are plenty more non Islamic nations willing to do more.

[–] Shard 18 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Frankly this is all of them.

They only care about Palestine insofar as it furthers their own political goals. Its low hanging fruit for them to stroke the religious and nationalistic fires in their people and redirect their attention away from issues like the economy and civil rights.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Maybe it's more reasonable and far less racist to blame the people actually doing the genocide rather than to blame "all of them" or "they".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

When did they claim that Israel wasn't to blame? Two things can be true at the same time.