Saudi Arabia: No Tolerance for Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing and Starvation of Palestinians
In a strongly worded statement, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Ministry has unequivocally condemned Israel’s systematic campaign to forcibly displace Palestinians and confiscate their lands for illegal Jewish settlements – actions designed to deny Palestinians their fundamental right to self-determination, statehood, and a life of dignity.
This was no routine diplomatic communiqué. Beyond reaffirming Riyadh’s longstanding rejection of attempts to erase the Palestinian cause – including attacks on UNRWA and the destruction of refugee camps that stand as living testimony to Zionist crimes – the statement delivered an unmistakable warning: Saudi patience has reached its limit. It demanded Washington restrain what it called Israel’s "rogue, psychopathic regime and its extremist cabal" from continuing its genocidal war under the false pretext of combating "terrorism" – a deliberately manufactured label used to justify atrocities against Arabs and Muslims.
The timing is critical. As Israel launches its second full-scale assault on Gaza while establishing a government taskforce to oversee Palestinian expulsion "by any means necessary," Saudi Arabia exposed this as the realization of Donald Trump’s abandoned ethnic cleansing blueprint – now enthusiastically adopted by Netanyahu’s far-right coalition of Ben-Gvir and Smotrich, who are implementing a three-pronged strategy of massacre, displacement, and deliberate starvation.
While Saudi diplomacy traditionally favors discretion, the Kingdom has never wavered on core principles: the occupation remains the root cause of instability, and Palestinian resistance is an internationally recognized right – one exercised by every colonized people, including Americans against British rule. What has changed is Riyadh’s willingness to publicly shame Western hypocrisy.
The statement pulls no punches in accusing Western governments of moral bankruptcy. Though fully aware Israel’s settler-colonial project is illegal and its leaders surpass Hitler in war crimes, they capitulate to accusations of "anti-Semitism" while arming, funding, and politically shielding what the statement terms a "sadistic, fascist war machine" that revels in slaughtering Palestinian civilians.
A scathing indictment notes the bitter irony: A U.S. president posturing as peacemaker while supplying Israel with advanced weapons, even as he nominally seeks to end Ukraine’s war. How, Saudi Arabia asks, can peace prevail when Washington fuels the very militarization destroying Palestine?
The message is particularly pointed during Ramadan, with Saudi Arabia – custodian of Islam’s holiest sites – declaring it cannot remain silent as Palestinian blood stains the holy month. It warns that Israel, with U.S. complicity, is provoking a regional religious war – compounded by Washington’s pressure on Egypt to accept ethnic cleansing and Turkey’s escalating presence in Syria.
The closing salvo redefines Saudi sovereignty: No longer will the Kingdom serve as Western powers’ convenient crisis manager. Should Arab and Islamic resolutions continue to be ignored, Saudi Arabia hints at unprecedented measures to defend Palestinian survival.
