Saudi Arabia and Palestine: From Jihad to Demonization

The Saudi researcher, Muhammad Al-Asmari, in his book “The Saudi Army in the Palestine War”, citing the Egyptian Documentation House, documented a letter from the commander of the Egyptian army in Palestine, Major General Ahmed Al-Mawawi, to his leadership in Cairo, praising the valiantness of the Saudi army participating in the Palestine war alongside the army Al-Masry stated: “I see it as a courtesy of the only country that participated with us in its army, that its men who participated and excelled in the field be rewarded just like our men … The morale prevailing among these forces is a high spirit, for all of them are eager to fight and believe in the Arab cause. To that religious feeling. ”

This religious feeling mentioned by the Moawi in his message is the obligation of jihad for the sake of God to defend Palestine and Jerusalem. The Blessed and Holy Land, the Land of Isra and Mi’raj, which includes the Al-Aqsa Mosque; The first Qiblah and the third Holy Mosque. Al-Asmari also documented, according to the Palestinian Information Center, the names of 155 Saudi martyrs out of 3,200 regular fighters and volunteers who participated in the war.

This drive for jihad for the liberation of Palestine and love for it, the Saudi ruling regime is trying in vain after seven decades of the Palestine war to plant in its place the demonization of Palestine, the cause, the people, and the resistance. And between the struggle for the liberation of Palestine and the demonization of Palestine is a period of time and fundamental transformations.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, led by the Al Saud family, continued to support the Palestinian cause and the countries of the ring against the Zionist entity – at least in public – in line with the will of the Arab Muslim people in the Arabian Peninsula, who loved Palestine, Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa, just as the Kingdom stood with Palestine in the Nakba War in 1948 during the era of the King The founder, Abdulaziz bin Saud, stood with Egypt during the tripartite aggression in the year 1956 AD, during the reign of King Saud bin Abdulaziz, and provided it with financial support and hosted Egyptian planes that were inevitable from bombing in their airports to protect them.

After the setback in the year 1967 AD, the Kingdom during the reign of King Faisal bin Abdulaziz provided huge sums of money to Egypt to compensate for the war losses. In the October 1973 war, King Faisal ordered the use of oil weapons to put pressure on Western countries supporting the Zionist entity, and sent military forces to support the Syrian army on the Golan front.

And when Egyptian President Anwar Sadat departed from the Arab consensus against the Zionist entity, and concluded the Camp David agreement with him in 1978 AD, and took Egypt out of the equation of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Kingdom, led by King Khalid bin Abdulaziz, was at the forefront of the Arab countries that boycotted Egypt, to put pressure on its ruling regime to return To the Arab consensus, and correct its policies towards Palestine.

Not long has passed since Egypt left the Arab conflict and consensus, and in the Iraqi poet Ahmad Matar’s expression, “The bull fled the barn,” until the Arabs began to forge their way behind the bull fleeing from the barn, so the bull did not return, but the barn went behind him. And since “the first dancing is a hump”, the Saudi peace initiative came in 1981 AD, known as the initiative of Prince Fahd, to be the first Arab hiccup, which gave the owner of the house a third of it, and gave his usurper two thirds.

The owner of the house was a series of concessions that ended with the Oslo Agreement in 1993 AD, which made him accept to live under the authority of the usurper. The Arabs applied the proverb that says: “If the owner of the house is a tambourine, then the people of the house are dancing.” They danced to the rhythm of the music of the brave peace that Abu Ammar was playing from the Muqata prison in Ramallah, and they turned the Saudi Peace Initiative into the Arab Peace Initiative at the Beirut Summit in the year 2002 AD, in which they registered a patent for the “land for peace” theory.

With the factors of national erosion due to the winds of change coming from the northwest, the land has eroded and only peace remained, in addition to the sands of normalization thrown by the northwestern winds of change. A new theory was formed, namely “protection in exchange for peace and normalization”, and work is still underway to develop the theory to be consistent with The will of the new master of the White House and the deal of his century. Let the achievements of the heroes of the war on Yemen and peace be on “Israel” – Bin Salman and Bin Zayed – be crowned and normalization will develop into an alliance. The policy of demonizing Palestine, the cause, the people and the resistance, was a compulsory pathway for recognition of the entity, peace and normalization with it, leading to the alliance.

The demonization of Palestine – the cause, the people and the resistance – as a systematic policy directed by the Saudi supreme authority, and its taking a compulsory path to peace and normalization with the enemy, and perhaps alliance with him, aiming to remove the presence of Palestine from the minds and hearts of the Saudis, erase it from their memories and conscience, and remove the psychological barrier preventing the perpetration of the crime of reconciliation with Being and turning the back on Palestine, and finding an ethical justification that allows getting rid of the heavy burden of the Palestinian cause that stands in the way of implementing the will of the master of the White House, and killing the conscience that causes feelings of guilt after standing with the Israeli executioner against the Palestinian victim.

Therefore, the demonization of Palestine through the media and drama was an imposed entitlement whereby the positive stereotype of Palestine – the cause, the people and the resistance – is replaced between the images of the victim and the hero, between the tragedy of the occupation and the valor of the resistance, and between the suffering of asylum and the violence of the revolution, so that the stereotype is negative that undermines the justice of the cause and demonizes the image The people, and the resistance struggle is criminalized, for the issue is just a trade in the hands of the leaders, the people sold their land and denied the favor, and the resistance works according to an external agenda for Iran, Turkey and the Muslim Brotherhood … which would create a state of hostility and hatred for everything that is Palestinian, and no wonder after that The slogan “Palestine is not my cause” was promoted among the Gulf Arabs, especially the Saudis, and it is no wonder after demonizing the Palestinian to go towards humanizing the Israeli executioner.

The humanization of the Israeli in the Saudi and Gulf media and drama is the other side of the demonization of the Palestinian, and the concept of humanism as opposed to demonization means imparting moral and human qualities to the Israeli, regardless of his being the occupier and usurper of the land, and the displaced and displaced people, and ignoring the reality of the “State of Israel” as an entity based on the land of the Palestinian people, And a settler military entity, a dissolving racist, terrorist entity, and its continued existence is linked to perpetuating violence.

Humanizing the Israeli Zionist Jew and his entity, his goal is to change the sinister stereotype of the Israeli, linked to aggression, into a new positive stereotype that paints different images of the individual Israeli as a normal, kind and superior person, and the Israeli people as an oppressed nation fighting for survival deserves life in its homeland “Israel” .

In order to complete the humanization of the Israeli as a former enemy, the enemy must be redefined. When Palestine is no longer the cause of the Saudis, “Israel” does not remain their enemy. Rather, the enemy becomes the ungrateful Palestinian people “who can not stand with you and mourn day and night.” Thus, after demonizing the Palestinian and humanizing the Israelis, the road will be paved for falling into the abyss of normalization and alliance with the Zionist entity.

The transfer of the ruling Saudi regime, led by the dualistic tyranny of the Al Saud political tyranny and the religious extremism of the Al Sheikh family, from the image of jihad to liberate Palestine brightly to the dark demonization of Palestine. Thousands of young Saudis fell on this road full of suspicions, and went human sacrifices on the altar of deception and the will of the Americans, starting from Afghanistan and ending with Syria, passing through Chechnya and Somalia, and many other things, in futile wars and imaginary battles that the nation was not harmed by or A camel, and dozens of Saudi martyrs who rose in defense of Al-Aqsa, Jerusalem and Palestine remained a small spot of bright white in a large black robe, but the spot would inevitably grow and expand, until the whole garment was filled with white and its dark black dispersed (and they say when ٰ It is said).