by Ayman Ahmed (News & Analysis, Crescent International Vol. 54, No. 3, Shawwal, 1445)
It would have been uncharacteristic of the Arab rulers not to indulge in treachery against Muslims. While the masses worldwide and many countries in the global South cheered Islamic Iran’s retaliatory strike against zionist Israel, Saudi Arabia and Jordan actively worked against Tehran.
It was a measured strike, carried out in retaliation for Israel’s criminal conduct in attacking Iran’s diplomatic mission in Damascus. The April 1 Israeli attack resulted in the murder of seven senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard commanders, two of them generals.
Diplomatic missions are considered the territory of the country to which they belong. Thus, it was a direct attack on Iran. In the past, Iran had shown strategic patience but this was one red line Tehran could not ignore. Legally, morally and politically, Iran was within its right to retaliate.
Far from upholding international law, for whatever it is worth, the Arabian rulers joined hands with the US, Britain and France, to protect the illegitimate entity in Occupied Palestine. Saudi Arabia and two-bit player Jordan were in the forefront. The United Arab Emirates (UAE), another artificial entity, also helped the zionist war criminals. The rest of the Arabian regimes were a little more circumspect and kept their heads low, fully aware of the blowback from Tehran.
The question that must be asked is, why are these Arabian regimes so keen to defend Israel? David Ben Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, had candidly admitted that the Arab regimes are his country’s first line of defence. Need one say more?
‘Saudi’ Arabia and Jordan are both artificial entities carved out of the Turkish empire by the British colonialists to serve their interests. It is shirk to call it ‘Saudi’ Arabia. Its correct name, given to it by the Prophet (pbuh), is the Arabian Peninsula.
The uncouth Bedouins from the backwaters of Najd were used by the wily British to undermine the Uthmaniyah Khilafah. While it was a mere shell, the Turks still had a tenuous link to the khilafah established after the Prophet (pbuh) left this earthly abode.
There were in fact two traitors among the tribal chieftons that the British used: Abdel Aziz ibn Saud and Sharif Hussain ibn Ali of Makkah. Abdel Aziz was an outlier, raiding and robbing caravans. Sharif Hussain had been installed by the Ottomans to rule Makkah and al-Madinah. The British promised both men that they would be made the king of all the Arabs once the non-Arab Turks were defeated.
Imagine these traitors serving the British infidels against fellow Muslims. But treachery runs in their blood. In the struggle for control of Makkah and al-Madinah, ibn Saud’s hordes proved more ruthless and were able to drive Sharif Hussain from Makkah.
To assuage his injured pride, the British carved out Jordan from the province of Palestine and handed it over to Sharif Hussain. His son Faisal was installed as king of Iraq from where he was driven out and then appointed as king of Syria. The British acted as if they owned these Muslims lands.
Both the Bani Saud occupied Arabian Peninsula and Jordan are US-zionist colonies today. The US, Britain and France maintain military bases in both countries that were fully used in trying to thwart Iran’s retaliatory strikes against Israel.
The Jerusalem Post reported that Saudi Arabia had helped the newly-formed military alliance comprising the US, Britain, France, Jordan and the UAE to thwart Iran’s drone and missile strike on Israel. The Jerusalem Post had quoted an unnamed Saudi official who had told Israel’s KAN News of Saudi help.
The Saudis were upset that Hamas’s October 7, 2023 launch of Operation Al-Aqsa Storm had undermined their planned normalization with Israel. The Najdi Bedouins blamed Iran for instigating Hamas’s daring operation. Far from applauding the Palestinians’ valiant resistance, the Bedouins joined their enemy and its chief patron, the US.
Masses throughout the world, including many non-Muslims, have supported the Palestinians’ valiant resistance against the genocidal zionists. Not so the Najdi Bedouins and the equally treacherous Jordanians.
There is also a personal factor involved. Mohammad bin Salman (MbS), the de facto ruler of the artificial kingdom, was brought up by an Ethiopian Jewish nanny. It seems MbS was indoctrinated by his Jewish nanny and became enamoured to the zionists.
His headlong pursuit of ‘normalization’ with the zionist entity is a stab in the back of the Palestinian people. MbS is banking on Israeli support to keep him in power. The Joe Biden regime has shunned the Saudi upstart so far. MbS hopes for the return of Donald Trump to power. His son-in-law Jared Kushner has close ties to MbS as well as the Israeli war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu.
They all want to get rid of the Palestinians so that they can build their dream properties on Gaza’s beach front. Where money is involved, a few million Palestinians can be dispensed with.
What the Najdi Bedouins have demonstrated, yet again, is that treachery runs in their blood. They would rather jump in bed with the devil than worry about innocent Palestinian lives. In the bargain they will even get some fair-skinned Israeli women to rub flesh with.
Their shamelessness has no limits.