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

submitted 2 weeks ago by geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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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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[-] w00t@lemmy.ml 37 points 2 weeks ago

"First they came for Palestinians, and I did not speak out because I was not a Palestinian..."

[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 24 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I am shocked, beyond all recognition, that the psychopath monarch who dismembered an anti-fascist journalist with bone saws could show such a lack of empathy for the Palestinian people. My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined.

All of our "democracies" are ruled by sociopathic criminals who only worship the almighty dollar. The sooner everyone accepts that, the sooner we can oppose authoritarian dictatorships and genocidal ethnostates, instead of kissing their ass.

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 weeks ago

Fun fact Saudi Arabia used the Israeli Pegasus spy software to target Jamal Khasoggi.

[-] Lussy@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks ago

Then they came for me, the prince of saudi

[-] COASTER1921@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago

This goes a bit deeper than their connection to America. The whole reason they were aligned with America in the first place was their mutual hatred of Iran. The Saudis HATE Iran. Coincidentally Hamas's biggest supporter is Iran. Israel surely knows this and for similar reasons why most of the Arabian peninsula states are keeping their distance from this war.

[-] pinguinu@lemmygrad.ml 37 points 2 weeks ago

Even he is more sincere than everyone in the US govt combined lmao

[-] Lussy@hexbear.net 26 points 2 weeks ago

‘I don’t even fucking care but the zoomers do so i have to do the bare minimum to slow to down the genocide’ is probably better

[-] SoJB@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

God I hope Dems get fucked in November

[-] dkr567@hexbear.net 32 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

A country that sells the #1 commodity in the world in the currency of another country that's aiding in the genocide doesn't really care? shocked-pikachu

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 29 points 2 weeks ago

Kudos to whomever did the photo editing and managed to remove the gallons of blood from the hands of both of them without leaving any artifacts! That person deserves a raise!

[-] ahriboy@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 2 weeks ago

Since Saudi Arabia is a longtime American asset prior to the founding of Israhell.

[-] restingboredface@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 weeks ago

It blows my mind to see so many leaders so nonchalant about genocide.

[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This "leader" is a psychopathic murderer who should have already been executed at the hague. Instead he's our "ally", because we live in capitalist dictatorship's masquerading as "democracies".

[-] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Most of the "leaders" are psychopathic murderers who should have already been executed. The honest and noble ones get assassinated and we get these shits that openly admit to being evil.