Bericht: Saudi-Arabien entfernt Palästina von den Karten aus Schulbüchern

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1. Getting popcorn ready to watch Queers for Palestine having a fit over this.

2. I will patiently wait to hear the usual people explain how the Saudis are *actually* Islamophobic for this. haha

3. Woah. I didn’t expect them of all people to do this.

4. A lot of the other other changes actually sound really good.

5. Saudi Arabia more than perhaps any other country other than Israel geopolitical interests lie with Israel and not with Palestine

   Their strategic best move is to become a close Ally and trade partner and military partner of Israel

   This entire conflict right now happened what it did because Israel and Saudi Arabia were normalizing relationships. October 7th was done to deliberately sabotage that

   There is absolutely no benefit from a geopolitical point of view to Saudi Arabia from Palestine existing in any capacity because it hinders what is their most promising potential move

   It’s worth remembering Iran Saudi Arabia’s hated enemy funds Hamas and The houthis for the simple purpose of it causes Saudi Arabia problems

   The older generation of politicians in Saudi value Palestine and some of the people in Saudi Arabia value it, but they’re not exactly a democracy

   Anything Saudi Arabia can do to make it easier to have strong ties to Israel it will

   It’s also worth noting most countries only operate based off of their current and future interests (some of the West is an exception) and more or less almost every nation in the world’s interests line up with Israel which is why a lot of governments actions don’t match their condemnation

   This is of course because Israel is a economic and scientific powerhouse who is also the best at desalinization, whereas Palestine is more or less not connected to the global system at all other than to receive aid

6. For anyone interested to know more about Saudi Arabia’s position/viewpoint, I highly recommend watching the 2020 interview with their former ambassador to the US, Prince Bandar bin Sultan.

   Its pretty long but it covers all the work SA did over the years for the Palestinians and makes it pretty clear that while they support the cause, they have been dissapointed over and over by the leadership.

   [Part One](https://youtu.be/edKZbu5OM1c?si=r3D2IWjvmQar_yIu)

   [Part Two](https://youtu.be/idJx1bB30EM?si=VY7zmTU4tAp8w0gg)

   [Part Three](https://youtu.be/9XTSrlONiDU?si=mGvUvx7JrvhR-goV)

7. The Saudi have a very simple policy of cash over ideology, and there’s much more cash to be made with Israel compared to Palestine.

   Add to that many other factors, ranging from water desalinization to military alignment against Iran and it makes a lot of sense for MBS to align with Israel

8. Oh. They are still going forward with normalizing relations with Israel. I’d thought they’d feign reluctance for a year or so.

9. The Palestinians are the Rodney Dangerfields of the Middle East

10. This pretty much settles it, then. In no less than 1947, 1967, 2000, 2020, and 2023, the Palestinians were offered a pathway to statehood, of which they rejected for one reason or another. By the looks of this and all things considered, they may not receive another opportunity within my lifetime.

11. I still don t get why SA don t just go full democratic and tie with the West and Israel.
    It s literally the best move they could do.