On September 25, at the UN General Assembly, Saudi Foreign Minister Fezar faced a question from reporters and went straight back.
You may not have noticed that the wind direction in the Middle East has quietly changed recently-at the United Nations General Assembly on September 25, Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal dropped a sentence to the CCTV camera, directly putting the United States and Israel on fire: "Palestine has not established a state and wants Saudi Arabia to establish diplomatic relations with Israel? There is no door!"
Why does Saudi Arabia dare to be so tough? In the past, the United States was uncompromising in the Middle East, and Saudi Arabia had to give some face, but now it's different.
The most important thing is that Saudi Arabia and Iran have reconciled. After the resumption of diplomatic relations in 2023, the leaders of the two countries focused on the Palestinian issue during their first phone conversation and said that they both emphasized the need to restore Palestinian rights. In November last year, they also held a tripartite meeting with China, clearly calling for a halt to Israel's military operations.
This means that Saudi Arabia no longer has to rely on the United States to balance Iran, the waistline is naturally tough, before the United States always took Iran as the head, persuaded Saudi Arabia to embrace Israel, now Shah himself shrugged his hand and said peace, the trick of the United States is not useful.
Speaking of Saudi Arabia's own identity, it has to carry a big flag in the Arab world, the Islamic world, the Palestinian issue is the "heart flesh" of the Arabs, from 1948 to now for more than seventy years, the Palestinians have not even a rightful state, the United Nations has long recognized the Palestinian state, but the United States once again used the right to veto, and the application for accession of Palestine was reversed.
If Saudi Arabia ignores this and focuses on establishing diplomatic relations with Israel, let alone other Arab countries, the domestic people will not be able to pass the barrier.
Saudi political analysts have made it clear that this is not only a diplomatic issue, but also a "obligation" of Saudi Arabia. Without the Palestinian stance, the leadership of the Islamic world will be lost.
The United States is eager to promote the establishment of diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel, and its abacus is crackling. On the one hand, it wants to make a big diplomatic achievement before the general election and put money on its face; On the other hand, they want to regain Saudi Arabia's arms market, and they also want to pull Saudi Arabia into an anti-Iran alliance.
But the U.S. has only Saudi concessions, but there is no way to Israel, the Israeli right-wing government, the prime minister Netanyahu directly said that there will be no Palestinian state on the West Bank, still bombed Gaza for eleven months, killed more than sixty-five thousand Palestinians, turned back and approved the construction of more than three thousand settlement housing on the West Bank, made clear that to devour Palestinian land.
More interestingly, the international direction has also changed, before the Western countries followed the United States to Israel, now it is different, France, Britain, Canada these countries have recently announced the recognition of the State of Palestine.
The Norwegian Foreign Minister said the truth, and waiting for Israel to knock on the head, that is to give the veto right to the least wanting peace, even the American allies can not ignore, Saudi at this time stood up and expressed, just followed the big trend of the international public opinion, equals to tell the world: not I Saudi is wrong, is Israel and the United States too much.
Saudi Arabia also has its own calculations. It is working on "Vision 2030". To get rid of its dependence on oil, this requires a stable regional environment and Arab countries to unite together.
If the entire Arab world is guilty of establishing relations with Israel, the plan of "going eastward" and cooperation with China and Russia will be affected.
Now Saudi Arabia is getting closer to China and Russia, energy cooperation and economic exchanges are few, and no longer can be separated from the support of the United States as before, and naturally there is a sense of saying no to the United States.
The United States wants to take arms sales and civilian nuclear technology as a code, but Saudi Arabia is clear that these benefits are even greater and not more important than the power of speech in the Arab world.
Looking at Israel's situation again, on the surface, it has established diplomatic relations with countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, but Saudi Arabia cannot pass this hurdle. The so-called "Middle East reconciliation" is illusory.
Yemen's Houthi armed forces often fire missiles into central Israel, and Hezbollah in Lebanon also fires from time to time. Israel's security is not guaranteed at all.
Netanyahu thought he could do whatever he wanted with the support of the United States, but now even Britain has begun to restrict arms sales to Israel, saying that it may violate humanitarian law, and Israel is becoming more and more isolated.
Faisal's words also have a deep meaning, which is to bring the Palestinian issue back on track. In recent years, the United States has always wanted to bypass Palestine to talk about Saudi-Israeli relations and use Palestine as a bargaining chip. Saudi Arabia wants to expose this hypocrisy.
Without the founding of Palestine, all so-called "peace agreements" would be castles in the air. Although the Iranian Foreign Minister proposed the "one-state solution", the "two-state solution" adhered to by Saudi Arabia is the consensus of the international community. Such a statement is tantamount to condensing the Arab The position of the country also completely failed the mediation of the United States.
In the end, Saudi Arabia has been steady and fierce, both guarding the moral bottom line of Palestine, consolidating its leadership position in the Arab world; and overcoming the pressure of the United States, showing the basement of independent diplomacy; and turning the situation in the Middle East, making the US-dominated regional order frightened.
The phrase "Without the establishment of a state, there is no need to talk about it" sounds like a rejection, but it actually points a clear way to peace in the Middle East: everything will be in vain unless the Palestinians' rights to existence and to establish a state are resolved.
The Middle East has long been the age of what the United States is saying, Saudi Arabia and Iran shake hands, Arab countries cling, China-Russia influence rises, American hegemony is relaxing.
Faisal's hardness at the United Nations General Assembly is the most direct expression of this change, and in the future, if Israel still holds an expansionist mindset, if the United States is even more biased, the Middle East turmoil will only get worse; but if it can follow the path indicated by Saudi Arabia and truly take the Palestinian state as a matter, there is hope for peace.
This tone, Saudi Arabia is worth it, and it also scolds those who are still living in the old pattern.
You may not have noticed that the wind direction in the Middle East has quietly changed recently-at the United Nations General Assembly on September 25, Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal dropped a sentence to the CCTV camera, directly putting the United States and Israel on fire: "Palestine has not established a state and wants Saudi Arabia to establish diplomatic relations with Israel? There is no door!"
Why does Saudi Arabia dare to be so tough? In the past, the United States was uncompromising in the Middle East, and Saudi Arabia had to give some face, but now it's different.
The most important thing is that Saudi Arabia and Iran have reconciled. After the resumption of diplomatic relations in 2023, the leaders of the two countries focused on the Palestinian issue during their first phone conversation and said that they both emphasized the need to restore Palestinian rights. In November last year, they also held a tripartite meeting with China, clearly calling for a halt to Israel's military operations.
This means that Saudi Arabia no longer has to rely on the United States to balance Iran, the waistline is naturally tough, before the United States always took Iran as the head, persuaded Saudi Arabia to embrace Israel, now Shah himself shrugged his hand and said peace, the trick of the United States is not useful.
Speaking of Saudi Arabia's own identity, it has to carry a big flag in the Arab world, the Islamic world, the Palestinian issue is the "heart flesh" of the Arabs, from 1948 to now for more than seventy years, the Palestinians have not even a rightful state, the United Nations has long recognized the Palestinian state, but the United States once again used the right to veto, and the application for accession of Palestine was reversed.
If Saudi Arabia ignores this and focuses on establishing diplomatic relations with Israel, let alone other Arab countries, the domestic people will not be able to pass the barrier.
Saudi political analysts have made it clear that this is not only a diplomatic issue, but also a "obligation" of Saudi Arabia. Without the Palestinian stance, the leadership of the Islamic world will be lost.
The United States is eager to promote the establishment of diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel, and its abacus is crackling. On the one hand, it wants to make a big diplomatic achievement before the general election and put money on its face; On the other hand, they want to regain Saudi Arabia's arms market, and they also want to pull Saudi Arabia into an anti-Iran alliance.
But the U.S. has only Saudi concessions, but there is no way to Israel, the Israeli right-wing government, the prime minister Netanyahu directly said that there will be no Palestinian state on the West Bank, still bombed Gaza for eleven months, killed more than sixty-five thousand Palestinians, turned back and approved the construction of more than three thousand settlement housing on the West Bank, made clear that to devour Palestinian land.
More interestingly, the international direction has also changed, before the Western countries followed the United States to Israel, now it is different, France, Britain, Canada these countries have recently announced the recognition of the State of Palestine.
The Norwegian Foreign Minister said the truth, and waiting for Israel to knock on the head, that is to give the veto right to the least wanting peace, even the American allies can not ignore, Saudi at this time stood up and expressed, just followed the big trend of the international public opinion, equals to tell the world: not I Saudi is wrong, is Israel and the United States too much.
Saudi Arabia also has its own calculations. It is working on "Vision 2030". To get rid of its dependence on oil, this requires a stable regional environment and Arab countries to unite together.
If the entire Arab world is guilty of establishing relations with Israel, the plan of "going eastward" and cooperation with China and Russia will be affected.
Now Saudi Arabia is getting closer to China and Russia, energy cooperation and economic exchanges are few, and no longer can be separated from the support of the United States as before, and naturally there is a sense of saying no to the United States.
The United States wants to take arms sales and civilian nuclear technology as a code, but Saudi Arabia is clear that these benefits are even greater and not more important than the power of speech in the Arab world.
Looking at Israel's situation again, on the surface, it has established diplomatic relations with countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, but Saudi Arabia cannot pass this hurdle. The so-called "Middle East reconciliation" is illusory.
Yemen's Houthi armed forces often fire missiles into central Israel, and Hezbollah in Lebanon also fires from time to time. Israel's security is not guaranteed at all.
Netanyahu thought he could do whatever he wanted with the support of the United States, but now even Britain has begun to restrict arms sales to Israel, saying that it may violate humanitarian law, and Israel is becoming more and more isolated.
Faisal's words also have a deep meaning, which is to bring the Palestinian issue back on track. In recent years, the United States has always wanted to bypass Palestine to talk about Saudi-Israeli relations and use Palestine as a bargaining chip. Saudi Arabia wants to expose this hypocrisy.
Without the founding of Palestine, all so-called "peace agreements" would be castles in the air. Although the Iranian Foreign Minister proposed the "one-state solution", the "two-state solution" adhered to by Saudi Arabia is the consensus of the international community. Such a statement is tantamount to condensing the Arab The position of the country also completely failed the mediation of the United States.
In the end, Saudi Arabia has been steady and fierce, both guarding the moral bottom line of Palestine, consolidating its leadership position in the Arab world; and overcoming the pressure of the United States, showing the basement of independent diplomacy; and turning the situation in the Middle East, making the US-dominated regional order frightened.
The phrase "Without the establishment of a state, there is no need to talk about it" sounds like a rejection, but it actually points a clear way to peace in the Middle East: everything will be in vain unless the Palestinians' rights to existence and to establish a state are resolved.
The Middle East has long been the age of what the United States is saying, Saudi Arabia and Iran shake hands, Arab countries cling, China-Russia influence rises, American hegemony is relaxing.
Faisal's hardness at the United Nations General Assembly is the most direct expression of this change, and in the future, if Israel still holds an expansionist mindset, if the United States is even more biased, the Middle East turmoil will only get worse; but if it can follow the path indicated by Saudi Arabia and truly take the Palestinian state as a matter, there is hope for peace.
This tone, Saudi Arabia is worth it, and it also scolds those who are still living in the old pattern.