Saudi Academic: Arabs must accept Israel's right to Jerusalem

[Aramagedon]

Arabs must accept Israel's right to Jerusalem': Saudi academic


'Arabs must accept Israel's right to Jerusalem': Saudi academic
Israel seized control of the eastern part of Jerusalem in the 1967 [Getty]

Date of publication: 17 December, 2017

A Saudi academic has defended the controversial US decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital, calling on Arabs to 'accept' Israel's claim to the holy city.

A Saudi academic has defended the controversial US decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital and called on Arabs to "accept" Israel's claims to the holy city.

Abdulhameed Hakeem, the head of the Middle East Center for Strategic and Legal Studies in Jeddah, made the remarks on US-based al-Hurra Arabic-language TV channel on Saturday.

"The decision will prompt a positive shock towards moving the stagnant water surrounding negotiations," Hakeem said.

"Us, as Arabs, have to come an understanding with the other side and know what its demands are so that we can succeed in peace negotiation efforts," he said.

Hakeem's comments come after President Donald Trump announced earlier this month that the US would break with international consensus and move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Israel.

The Saudi royal court has slammed Trump's announcement as "unjustified and irresponsible" but has been muted in its criticism of the move since.

It has led many to ask where Riyadh stands on the issue.

"We have to admit and realise that Jerusalem is a religious symbol for the Jews that is just as holy for them as Mecca and Medina are for Muslims," Hakeem said.

"Arab mentality must free itself from the heritage of Gamal Abdel Nasser and political Islam of both the Sunni and Shia sects, which has instilled for purely political interests the culture of hating Jews and denying their historic right in the region."

Hakeem's comments have prompted angry responses on social media and many Twitter users have harshly condemned what they consider an appeal for the "normalisation of relations" with Israel.

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates' deep distrust of Shia power Iran is shared with Israel and has helped thaw relations.

Saudi Arabia denies it has any official relations with Israel, despite a deluge of recent reports claiming rapprochement between the two states.

Israel seized control of the eastern part of Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East war and sees the whole of Jerusalem as its undivided capital, something not accepted by the international community.

The Palestinians view the east as the capital of their future state, according to the 1993 Oslo Accords, but Trump's move puts this hope in serious jeopardy.

https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/a...ept-israels-right-to-jerusalem-saudi-academic


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[Rizwan Alam]

Idiots are everywhere and Saudi Arabia is not exception.

 

[313ghazi]

Traitors are everywhere and Saudi Arabia is not exception.

I corrected that for you.

 

[Indus Pakistan]

Traitors are everywhere but Saudi Arabia has the least of them.

I corrected it more to reflect the truth.

 

[Mhmoud]

I corrected it more to reflect the truth.

Traitors are everywhere, and those most likely to be one are the dictators. They will do anything to stay in power.

 

[SALMAN F]

Of course israel have right to it because it's a jewish city

 

[hussain0216]

Jerusalem is occupied

Palestine was occupied, it was done so through decite

It is a obligation upon all muslims to support a muslim population to retrieve their lands and rights and to fight and overthrow a occupier

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

Land is won by war. No man gives land to anyone, anywhere, anywhen.

 

[ADIL SHERDIL]

What do you expect from these Arabs they think themselves far better than all other. Let me make may predictions they will in near future accept Israel as a country. These bastard only worship money and gold. They have promoted sect. Violence throughout Muslim world what better can be expected from them.
They even forget Holy Prophet (SAW) last message that no one is better than anyone on the basis of their skin colour other than on the basis of Taqwa but now you can see their attitudes towards non Arabs. Shame on them

 

[Oublious]

Well this is a warming up, bit by bit they will inject this poison. Thats what happen if you get rich and lazy, when you fart and the same time eat. Ther is nothing more honerable dead then fighting for your lands, a whise leader told 'with blood conquered land can be given with blood'. And for that stupid jewish with quote from the Qoraan. Quds for muslims case closed...

 

[Solomon2]

Jerusalem is occupied -

Saied Shoaaib's point is that imams' declarations that Jerusalem is illegally occupied by Jews are "false assertions that contradict the Quran and scholarly interpretations of its verses."

It is a obligation upon all muslims to support a muslim population to retrieve their lands and rights and to fight and overthrow a occupier

Nor can Jews be charged as illegal "occupiers" under international law since international law - the League of Nations' Palestine Mandate - says Jews are to "closely settle" the region and that its Arabs have no inherent political rights to self-determination in Palestine: what political rights the Palestinian Arabs have they receive from Jews as a favor and mercy, not a right. (If you're going to cite U.N. resolutions saying otherwise, note that these are non-binding in international law under Article 80 of the U.N. Charter.)

It is a obligation upon all muslims to support a muslim population -

You never think in terms of what so-called Muslims worldwide justly owe non-Muslims like the Jews of Israel for oppressing them unjustly, do you?

 

[Arsalan 345]

wahhabism or wahhabi are basically a kind of jews so i suggest to stay away from them.they are called al jews.they are a disease which infected all of us.

 

[Solomon2]

wahhabism or wahhabi are basically a kind of jews so i suggest to stay away from them.they are called al jews.they are a disease which infected all of us.

I've noted that a very very common problem in the Muslim world is the re-labeling of things and re-defining of words in an attempt to change their meaning. It should be obvious that persons who consider language so malleable that as to re-define their words to suit their self-interest cannot be trusted to wield power and authority over others. You say you have a dispute but I have the guns and say you don't. Be off with you!

 

[AmirPatriot]

You never think in terms of what so-called Muslims worldwide justly owe non-Muslims like the Jews of Israel for oppressing them unjustly, do you?

I don't owe you anything, neither does any other Muslim... apart from maybe the Saudis.

 

[Solomon2]

I don't owe you anything, neither does any other Muslim... apart from maybe the Saudis.

You only gave, at most, two minutes of thought before you posted that answer. So it's an answer from the gut, not a real consideration.