NB: I am not an admirer of the Saudi regime, which I believe to be a brutal pseudo-religious despotism; but I appreciate this statement by their former intelligence chief. I couldn’t agree with him more. On the West’s shameless hypocrisy and double standards; their irredeemable racism and practice of collective vengeance on subjugated peoples; the inhuman practice – in this case on the part of Hamas as well as the Israeli government – of seeking to wipe out entire peoples; and finally, on the need for us all to remember Mahatma Gandhi’s firm faith in non violent civil disobedience, Turki Al Faisal has summed up my reaction to the ongoing conflict. Thank you, Sheikh. DS
Western politicians shed tears when Israelis are killed by Palestinians, but refuse to even express sorrow when Israelis kill Palestinians
A Saudi Arabia prince who was also the country’s former intelligence chief slammed both Hamas and Israel saying that there are “no heroes in this conflict, only victims”. Turki Al Faisal’s speech at US’ Rice University in Houston in which he cited the example of India’s Independence movement was shared widely on social media. The prince said that all occupied people have a right to resist their occupation, even militarily. Turki Al Faisal led the Saudi intelligence agency Al Mukhabarat Al ‘Ammah for 24 years and also served as the country’s ambassador to London and the US.
“I do not support the military option in Palestine. I prefer the other option: civil insurrection and disobedience. It brought down the British empire in India and the Soviet empire in eastern Europe,” he said. The prince’s speech, unusually frank for a senior member of the Saudi royal family, was widely acknowledged as the clearest indicator yet of the Saudi Arabia leadership’s thinking on the situation.
Hamas’ acts went against Islamic injunctions not to harm civilians, he said. The ex-diplomat and spy chief also accused Israel of “indiscriminate bombing of innocent Palestinian civilians in Gaza” and the “indiscriminate arrest of Palestinian children, women and men in the West Bank”.
Hamas’ acts went against Islamic injunctions not to harm civilians, he said. The ex-diplomat and spy chief also accused Israel of “indiscriminate bombing of innocent Palestinian civilians in Gaza” and the “indiscriminate arrest of Palestinian children, women and men in the West Bank”.
He took issue with the US media’s use of the phrase “unprovoked attack” saying, “What more provocation is required.. than what Israel has done to the Palestinian people for three-quarters of a century?”
“All militarily occupied people have a right to resist occupation”, he said condemning Western politicians for “shedding tears when Israelis are killed by Palestinians”, but refusing to “even express sorrow when Israelis kill Palestinians”.
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United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
No Path to Ending Bloodshed If Palestinian Rights Continue to Be Denied
Israel’s Colonial Revenge Genocide in Gaza is the latest in a Long History of such Massacres
Some information for Israelis (and the rest of us)
We’re anti-Zionist Jews and we see genocide unfolding in Gaza
Standing up for Palestine is also standing up to save the west from the worst of itself
After the truth-shower 