The Israeli Knesset’s approval of the so-called “Jewish nation-state
law” will disrupt international efforts to find a peaceful solution to
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Abdullah Al-Asheikh, speaker of the
Shoura Council, said.
Al-Asheikh called on the international community to assume its
responsibilities and “reject this law or any other Israeli attempts
aimed at devoting racial discrimination against the Palestinian people
and the attempt to obliterate their national identity and their
legitimate rights.”
In a speech during the opening session of the Arab Inter-Parliamentary
Union at its 28th special session — held at the House of Representatives
in Egypt — Al-Asheikh said that the emergency meeting was convened
because of recent Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, the declaration of
Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and moving the American Embassy to
Jerusalem.
The conference reflects the sense of gravity of the situation and its importance to the Palestinian cause, he said.
“Arabic, Islamic and peace-loving peoples hope that the solidarity with
the Palestinian people translates into reality, providing Palestinians
in general and Jerusalemites in particular safety, freedom and peace,”
he said.
Al-Asheikh said that Saudi Arabia reaffirms the centrality of the
Palestinian cause, the Arab identity of Jerusalem, the right of the
state of Palestine to sovereignty over all the Palestinian territories
occupied in 1967, including Jerusalem, and the inevitability of the
withdrawal of Israel from all the occupied Arab territories, including
the occupied Syrian Arab Golan.
He stressed the adherence to peace as a strategic option to resolve the
Arab-Israeli conflict in accordance with the Arab peace initiative
adopted by the Beirut Arab Summit in 2002 as a unified Arab project that
guarantees the legitimate rights of Palestinians.
Al-Asheikh said that the Kingdom ranks first in the list of countries
supporting Palestine, including humanitarian and development support.
The Kingdom has provided the Palestinian people with more than $6
billion in aid since 2000.
The Jewish nation-state law “represents a serious turning point, a major
decline in the efforts to push the peace process, and a violation of
the US historical neutrality on the issue of Jerusalem, which will add
to the complexity of the situation in the Palestinian territories.”
Heads of the Arab parliaments and councils lauded the role played by
Saudi Arabia in the Palestinian cause as the current president of the
Arab Summit, the outcome of the Jerusalem conference, the Dhahran
Declaration, and the financial support for Jerusalem and the United
Nations Relief and Work Agency for Palestine Refugees.
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