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.”

  • chaogomu@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 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.