The Palestinian Issue from Grandfather to Grandson
Every time the situation in any Arab or Islamic country worsens, attention turns towards the heart of the Arab and Islamic worlds: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia which has not been throughout its history a state of polemics or dancing on the wounds of others, but rather a state of attitudes and actions, especially concerning the Palestinian cause, witnessed by the history of its leaders since the era of its founder King Abdulaziz when the Kingdom stood at the London Conference in 1935 in support of the Palestinian people. Eight years later (1943), the Kingdom established a consulate general in Jerusalem, Palestine, to facilitate communication with the Palestinian people and provide the necessary support for their just cause.
On the fourteenth of February 1945, King Abdulaziz met with US President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the Bitter Lakes of the Suez Canal. He stressed in this historic meeting the full rights of the Palestinian people, which had the greatest impact on preserving the rights and dignity of the Palestinian people.
On November 11, 2024, and on behalf of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz His Highness the Crown Prince, Prince Mohammed bin Salman chaired the emergency Arab-Islamic summit held in Riyadh to affirm the rights of the Palestinian people and ensure the establishment of their state and sovereignty over their land. The summit called for implementing the outcomes of the Emergency Humanitarian Response Conference in Gaza, hosted by Jordan on June 11, 2024, to provide medical supplies and food to the Palestinian people. Resolution A/RES/ES-10/24 issued by the General Assembly on September 18, 2024, which adopted the outcomes of the legal advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice regarding the illegality of the Israeli occupation, was welcomed.
The Holy City of Jerusalem was and is at the “heart of Saudi Arabia” and the summit, where the international community was called upon to abide by the resolutions of international legitimacy regarding this city and its legal and historical status, as an integral part of the Palestinian territories occupied in 1967. The summit also called on the active international parties to launch a plan with specific steps and timing under international sponsorship to end the occupation and embody the independent, sovereign Palestinian state on the lines of June 4, 1967, with occupied Jerusalem as its capital, based on the two-state solution, and in accordance with the approved references and the Arab Peace Initiative of 2002.
