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
    152·
    1 month 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
      21·
      1 month 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
        22·
        1 month 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.