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
      27·
      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
        4·
        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”.

        • Pelicanen@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          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
          1·
          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.

    • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 months 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.

      • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
        3·
        2 months ago

        Iran was kind of incompetent and is morally corrupt anyways.

        I mean Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis are all basically dependent on Iran. They are Iran’s stand.

      • small44@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        2 months 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

  • Sundial@lemm.eeEnglish
    35·
    2 months ago

    It’s pretty well known this guy only cares about how many commas are in his net worth. He’s not a moral or good person by any stretch of the imagination.

    • Psychodelic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      2 months ago

      So do most people, at least speaking for Americans. Ignoring all other context, at least this guy gives a miniscule shit about what his people think/want. That’s just like basic politics

      I do have to wonder if he thinks he’s in more danger of losing it all than other contemporary government leaders

  • ZorsithEnglish
    34·
    2 months ago

    Ita depressing when a Saudi prince cares more about the will of the people (at least in writing) than almost any US politician.

  • S491@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    2 months ago

    How far they have fallen. In the 1970s King Faisal was spearheading OPECs embargo over Israel’s unjust invasions and attacks during the 6 days war, and now to see his successors spitting on the Palestinians is just disgusting.

  • HomerianSymphony@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    2 months ago

    Just keep in mind, this is anonymous hearsay by someone on Blinken’s team.

    And even if it’s true, they wouldn’t have leaked it to the media without some kind of agenda.

  • WoahWoah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    All else aside, if our leaders were more like the crown prince, we wouldn’t be sending more bombs to the bombers.

    “I don’t care personally, but my people do, so I’m doing what they ask.” Meanwhile, national polling suggests a majority of Americans want to stop arming Israel while they’re committing war crimes, but the overwhelming majority of our political leaders give full-throated support.

    And America is, ostensibly, the democracy.

  • socsa@piefed.socialEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    At least he’s more honest than the vast majority of people engaged with this issue.

        • chaogomu@lemmy.worldEnglish
          15·
          2 months ago

          One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.

          Did you know that Nelson Mandela was the leader of a literal terrorist organization?

          He ordered attacks that killed people. That’s why he was in prison.

          And every one forgave him, and even voted him into power.

          All because South African Apartheid was fundamentally evil.

          Israeli Apartheid is orders of magnitude worse than the South African version.

          • UrbonMaximus@feddit.ukEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            And every one forgave him, and even voted him into power.

            All because South African Apartheid was fundamentally evil.

            People forgave him because he actually changed his tactics, asked forgiveness and sued for peace instead of revenge.

            “People tend to measure themselves by external accomplishments, but jail allows a person to focus on internal ones, such as honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, generosity and an absence of variety,” Mandela once said, according to a quote at the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg. “You learn to look into yourself.”

            What’s going on in the middle east is horrible. But, let’s not change history to fit your narrative.

            • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
              2·
              2 months ago

              People forgave him because he actually changed his tactics, asked forgiveness and sued for peace instead of revenge.

              Uh…no? He only stopped armed resistance when negotiations finally bore fruit and not a minute before that. This is exactly what Palestinians are doing, only Israel is more stubborn and better supported by the international community so they can last a lot longer than South Africa.

    • hungryphrogEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      If you don’t care about a genocide, then what the fuck is wrong with you?