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·
    2 months 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·
      2 months 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·
        2 months ago

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

      • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
        11·
        2 months ago

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