Learn about the history of the Palestinian struggle for freedom, equality and justice by exploring major events in the history of their oppression on this day of the year.
27 March
SAUDI LEADER IN FIERCE NEW YORK ATTACK ON PALESTINIANS
On this day in 2018, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (aka MBS, or Mohammed Bone Saw), at a meeting with pro-Israel Jewish figures in New York, condemned the Palestinian leadership for supposedly rejecting opportunities for peace with Israel over decades, and said they should either start accepting peace proposals or “shut up.” Israel’s Channel 10 News reported remarks made by the crown prince at the meeting that left those who were present “staggered” by the ferocity of his criticism of the Palestinians.
الامير السعودي في هجوم عنيف على الفلسطينيين
27 مارس
في مثل هذا اليوم من عام 2018 ، أدان ولي العهد السعودي محمد بن سلمان (المعروف أيضًا باسم م.ب.س) في اجتماع مع شخصيات يهودية مؤيدة لإسرائيل في نيويورك ، القيادة الفلسطينية لرفضها " المفترض" لفرص السلام مع إسرائيل على مدى عقود ، وقال إنه ينبغي (موجها كلامه للقيادة الفلسطينية) إما البدء بقبول مقترحات السلام أو "ان تخرس". أفادت القناة العاشرة الإخبارية الإسرائيلية عن تصريحات أدلى بها ولي العهد في الاجتماع تركت الحاضرين
"مذهولين"من شراسة انتقاده للفلسطينيين.
According to the Times of Israel, "Palestinians must make peace or shut up", Saudi crown prince said to US Jews
In meeting last month in New York, Mohammed bin Salman castigated Abbas and predecessors for supposedly spurning opportunities for 40 years...
Israel has hinted at clandestine ties with Saudi Arabia in recent years, stressing the two countries share an interest in countering Iran. The rumors of covert relations have been denied by Saudi officials. Still, a Saudi general visited Jerusalem in 2016 and met with Israeli lawmakers, and Saudi officials have met with Israeli officials on several occasions in public.
Saudi Arabia supported Israel’s 2006 war on Lebanon, hoping for a massive defeat of the Lebanese resistance. Saudi Arabia conveyed secret messages of support to Israel and urged it to strike at Hezbollah with all its might. Saudi Arabia was disappointed with the results of the war, however.
The Israel lobby wants the Saudis to get away with Khashoggi murder, which has presented a huge problem for Israel and its lobby who see the Saudi de facto ruler – commonly referred to in English-language media by his initials MBS – as their key regional ally.
Josh Block, the head of US lobby group, The Israel Project, called Khashoggi “a radical Islamist terrorist ally who was close to Osama bin Laden, ISIS, Hamas who had wanted to overthrow the Saudi ruling royals, who oppose both the Sunni terrorists, sponsored by Turkey and Qatar, as well as Iran’s Shia terrorist armies and allies.”