Saudi Journalist to Palestinians: Armed Resistance to Israel is Futile, Arab World Has Lost Interest in Your Cause
Saudi Journalist to Palestinians: Armed Resistance to Israel is Futile, Arab World Has Lost Interest in Your Cause, Algemeiner, Barney Breen-Portnoy, January 26, 2017
Hamas fighters. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
The Palestinian cause is “no longer a top priority” for the Arab world, a Saudi journalist declared earlier this month.
In an article published by the Saudi daily Al Jazirahnewspaper — and translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) — Muhammad Aal Al-Sheikh wrote that the reliance of radical Palestinian groups on armed resistance “constitutes a kind of political suicide that only political ignoramuses [can] condone.”
According to Al-Sheikh, a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the sole option “that can be demanded and which enjoys the support of most of the international community.”
What the Palestinians, Al-Sheikh went on to say, “need to understand is that the Arabs of today are not the Arabs of yesterday, and that the Palestinian cause has lost ground among Arabs. This cause is no longer a top priority for them, because civil wars are literally pulverizing four Arab countries, and because fighting the ‘Islamic’ terrorism is the foremost concern that causes all Arabs, without exception, to lose sleep. It is folly to ask someone to sacrifice [tending to] his own problems and national interests in order to help [you solve] your own problems.”
“All I can say to my Palestinian brethren is that stubbornness, contrariness, and betting on the [support of] the Arab masses are a hopeless effort, and that ultimately you are the only ones who will pay the price of this stubbornness and contrariness,” he concluded.
In recent years, Israel has been quietly developing ties with the Sunni-Arab axis in the Middle East – including Saudi Arabia. In his September address to the UN General Assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that in addition to Egypt and Jordan, which already have signed peace treaties with the Jewish state, “Many other states in the region recognize that Israel is not their enemy. They recognize that Israel is their ally. Our common enemies are ISIS and Iran. Our common goals are security, prosperity and peace. I believe that in the years ahead we will work together to achieve these goals.”
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WarSclerotic 
January 28, 2017 at 1:54 AM
Bwahahahahahahaha…. Looks like the Fakistinian’s well is about to dry up. I guess they’re gonna have to finally pony-up and sit down for some serious, one on one talks – like it or not.
January 28, 2017 at 1:25 PM
If this article reflects officially sanctioned Saudi opinion, then it may signal a serious Saudi-Israeli alliance against Iranian hegemony.
January 28, 2017 at 5:04 PM
It does not work that way in middle east politics .
January 30, 2017 at 12:55 PM
Hi joop,
I gotta start traveling again soon, so I´ll be out of posting for another long period.
Do you remember that maybe around a year ago I told you that in the Middle East a huge regional federation of states was going to be created, and that Israel, quite begrudgingly though, would have to be included in it, either they like it or not?
Well, that´s exactly what will happen. It won´t be overnight, obviously. It might even take five or six years to happen… but it will happen.
Right now, neither israelis neither palestinians want to sit down an negotiate in good faith.
They will have to.
SA and Israel don´t accept Iran´s new role in the region. They will have to.
There will be no “Great Israel” from the Nile to the Euphrates (read Genesis 15:18), because everybody now knows, except wingate and other lunatic morons like him, that that verse was an interpolation by Ezra the sribe.
Israel will not be wiped out in a nuclear armageddon against Jerusalem, as some religious fanatics think, for the same reason that every thinking person already knows: mainly, that the Bible is a book of lies, and the world doesn´t work like that.
Israel will be integrated in a bigger, regional union with other countries, which will benefit all of them.
Terrorists will not be allowed to derail this plan, which is already being discussed by the great super powers.
And how do I know this, you may ask.
Well, because it´s part of my job to develop it, and I´m seeing the whole process unravel in front of my own eyes.
Take care man.
January 31, 2017 at 4:19 AM
I will miss you, but looking forward to read your comments again .
I do not have a clear vision hoe everything will develop, but i can see a brighter future for Israel .
The Islamic world have to find a way to live with the rest of the world otherwise it can go into a nasty direction .
But how can the islamic world change the religious tool they used so masterfully in a reasonable time periode .
You know how long it has taken to get to get from under the thump of Christianity , even that process is not fully completed .
Thanks for your kind words and be careful , things are changing fast and what was safe yesterday can be dangerous tomorrow .
February 1, 2017 at 12:32 AM
Hi man,
thanks for your kind words.
I´m traveling tomorrow. Will post again when I come back.
Keep your eyes and ears open in the next weeks/months, as there is going to be a lot of “action” in the financial world… starting in the Middle East.
The steps you see taken there, will give you a good indication of the future political ones. You know what I mean.
And see how the Ukrainian army genocide towards the Donetsk and Lugansk republics comes to an end… very soon.
Chat again soon.
Cheers.
February 1, 2017 at 12:35 AM
With “you know what I mean”, I´m referring to the end of the multipolar world, which I think we already discussed…
Best.
February 1, 2017 at 12:36 AM
Sorry again…
my goodness, I´m tired.
End of the unipolar world, not multipolar.
I need to sleep now…