Ahmed Al-Jarallah, owner and editor-in-chief of Kuwait's Al Seyassah newspaper as well as a couple of other newspapers. . For years he has advocated that the Arab world make peace with Israel. It appears that Palestinians have tried to assassinate him twice, once in 1985 when he was shot six times and also in 2003 when a letter bomb was sent to his office.
Last week he wrote another blistering attack on Palestinians and advised Saudi leader Mohammed bin-Salman to pursue his own interests and ignore those of Palestinians.
The Palestinian issue is no longer an Arab issue after the signing of the Oslo Accords between the PLO and Israel. Rather, it has become an Israeli-Palestinian affair, and therefore necessity requires everyone to look at their reality and their interests, and not cling to slogans, which are mere pipe dreams.Let us put it bluntly: The peoples of the Gulf Cooperation Council no longer accept putting the interests of the Palestinians before their affairs. The GCC members have suffered from financial and political blackmail, and delayed our own development, for the sake of the slogan “liberating Palestine.”...We are not at all concerned with what is happening in Gaza and the West Bank, because it has become a source of political investment for the highest bidder, and an Iranian-Israeli game played by Palestinian hands. This is why the leaders of Gaza kiss the hands of the Iranian guide - he has become their benefactor, in return they take advantage of the aid provided by the Arab Gulf states to build and own palaces in Monaco and other European cities, and they spend huge sums of money on gambling tables. Because they are convinced that “your uncle’s money doesn’t matter to you.” [A Gulf expression that people freely spend money that is not theirs]Today Israel has become a fait accompli, supported by European countries and the West, with weapons and money, and its leaders had a clear plan, which was to recover the land of their ancestors, as they claimed, while the people of the land were abandoned when they were displaced to the diaspora, and slept for decades on promises to return within a month or two, and today that promise is 75 years old, and generations were born in the diaspora who do not know Palestine except through slogans and songs.On the other hand, the rest of the PLO's leaders have become wealthy people who live like kings, and their children have become businessmen, and they have their own projects, and their weddings cost millions, all of it from Arab, especially Gulf, donations, while we received nothing but insults and threats in return.The late (Kuwaiti leader) Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad, may God have mercy on him, was also the top supporter of Arafat and the Palestinians, and they were employed in Kuwaiti departments, as if they were Kuwaitis. So what was Arafat’s reaction when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait?On that day, he demanded that Emir Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad be arrested and forced to sign a confession to relinquish rule of Kuwait. He incited that “the road to Jerusalem passes through Kuwait,” and his organizations wreaked havoc on earth, including murder and heinous crimes against Kuwaitis.Since 1967, Palestinian organizations have devoted themselves to terrorizing Arabs, killing many of them, hijacking planes, and practicing terrorism under the slogan of “reminding the world of the issue.” Some Arab leaders also exploited it for their own ends...In Iraq, the young King Faisal and the leaders of the state were also brandished with the same slogan. Instead of pointing the gun at the Israelis, it turned to Jordan and Lebanon, and they killed tens of thousands of people.What have we gotten from the “cause” other than the calamities? Iran has come to rule four Arab capitals, and it has been helped in this by those investing in Arab blood under the slogan of the “Palestinian Cause,” who shed blood in Yemen, Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria, and practiced terrorism against the Gulf states, starting with the assassination of UAE Foreign Minister Saif Ghobash to the Beirut port bombing.We have received nothing but bad news from the “cause,” and to this day there are those who invest in it for personal gain. Therefore, we must approach matters in the right way, and see how the inimitable Arab leader, the late Anwar Sadat, understood the dimensions of this situation, and worked to liberate Sinai, the Suez Canal, Sharm El-Sheikh and Taba, without war, but through negotiations. Because the whole world supports Israel, as a result of the childish terrorist acts committed by the Palestinians themselves.Prince Mohammed bin Salman, you have nothing more to do than look at the Palestinian groups, and to whom each of them sold the slogan “Liberating Palestine,” and what benefits their leaders are getting, to know that these people have forgotten their country for decades, and have other goals, and to realize that the world will not wait, and the Palestinian factions, which have reached 20, live on political blackmail. Those who do not submit to them are assassinated, their image is distorted, or they are insulted. At the same time, they live a comfortable life in Israeli cities, and they have their own companies in Israel.While we were chanting for Palestine, they were planning to kill us, and while we were diverting our own money to them, they were spending it on sabotaging our country, and they declared “Allahu Akbar” every time Saddam Hussein fired a missile at Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.Prince bin Salman, listen to the Friday preachers in Gaza and the West Bank, and the insults hurled at the House of Saud, your father, you personally, and all the peoples of the Gulf.Israel did not commit ten percent of the crimes committed by Palestinian organizations against us, which is why we say on behalf of most of the Arab Gulf peoples: Be wise and trust in Allah.
Notice that there is nothing pro-Israel in this essay - just anti-Palestinian.
(h/t TMoran via Yoel)
