The former head of Saudi Arabia’s intelligence service, Prince Turki Al-Faisal, said on Monday that the 7 October attack on Israel by the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, has shattered the occupation state’s global image as an “invincible force” in the region, and revived the Palestinian cause. Prince Turki made his comment during an interview with Saudi channel Al-Akhbariya.
The Kingdom’s former ambassador to the United States added that the Hamas attack had many consequences. “One of these was to shatter the image that many people of the world had that Israel faced no power that could compete with it or challenge it in the region.” The prince added that the operation emphasised that the Palestinian issue is alive.
He pointed out his belief that these two consequences of 7 October alone have awakened the world to the Palestinian cause, and to the fact that there is “persecution and injustice against [the Palestinian] people by an occupier similar to the colonial occupations of the nineteenth century.”
In a related context, Al-Faisal said that the Kingdom has convinced the US administration of President Joe Biden to “deal with some moderation with Israel” in its war against the Gaza Strip. “We are not afraid to confront whatever policies or decisions that we see that may be wrong,” he concluded. “And as we have seen now with the Gaza issue, the American position embraced Israel and granted it rights under the name of self-defence that far exceeded what is allowed by international law.”
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