Mohammed bin Salman reportedly told Antony Blinken that while he was not concerned about 'the Palestinian issue', the young Saudi population were

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.”

    • Shard@lemmy.worldEnglish
      272·
      1 month ago

      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.

      • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        43·
        1 month ago

        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”.

        • PelicanenEnglish
          2·
          1 month ago

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

        • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
          11·
          1 month ago

          I mean he’s not saying anything wrong. These are US-bought governments and the US is getting their money’s worth.

    • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
      112·
      1 month 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.

    • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      413·
      1 month ago

      Most racist comment.

      TBH it’s the zionist leaders who don’t care at all about committing genocide.

      • small44@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        1 month ago

        I’m racist to my own race? Zionists leaders and their Arab collaborators are allowing genocide. Ask most arabs and they’ll tell how much they hate their leaders