During a period when the world was consumed by the vast destruction wrought by the Second World War, and while global empathy was directed towards the Jews due to the Holocaust, little attention was given in the West to the tragic plight of 750,000 Palestinians who were forcibly displaced from their land and transformed into refugees.
This occurred in 1948 when the United Nations sanctioned the establishment of the State of Israel on the land that had until then belonged to the Palestinian people.
For the #Palestinians and Arabs, the events of 1948 have come to be known since then as the Nakba (the catastrophe).
The massacres of Palestinians in villages such as Deir Yassin, Al-Tantura, Al-Salha, Al-Dawayima, and numerous others, alongside Israel's destruction of over 400 Palestinian villages, the existence of 58 Palestinian refugee camps across Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip, their initial asylum in Gulf Arab states, and the world's failure to ensure their protection or repatriation, have collectively shaped the consciousness and sentiments of Arab people, including Saudis, towards #Israel.
Certainly, Palestinian leaders have made numerous mistakes, some of which persist to the present day, such as their ongoing political divisions. However, these shortcomings do not alter the fundamental truth that the Palestinian cause is just.
Similar to all people around the world, Palestinians possess the right to self-determination. Moreover, an international consensus supports the establishment of a Palestinian state on the territory occupied by Israel in 1967, which includes East Jerusalem.
#Saudi Arabia's sympathy and support for the Palestinian cause are derived not solely from the shared Arab and Islamic identities between the two peoples, but also from the unique position of Palestinians as the sole population still enduring occupation. This stance is accentuated by the international community's application of double standards.
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