Arab League condemns Netanyahu’s proposal to create Palestinian state in Saudi Arabia
The Arab League has condemned the Israeli prime minister’s recent suggestion that Saudi Arabia could create a state for Palestinians on its territory, saying such comments reflect their "complete detachment from reality."
In a TV interview on Thursday, Benjamin Netanyahu said Saudi Arabia owns a lot of land and it could establish an independent Palestinian state on its territory.
The right-wing TV host noded to Netanyahu's plan, saying that it was an interesting idea.
The Arab and Muslim world, however, responded with anger to the Israeli PM’s scheme to displace more Palestinians to grab their land, vehemently denouncing Netanyahu’s expansionist idea.
“The logic behind them is unacceptable and reflects a complete detachment from reality,” the Arab League’s chief Ahmed Aboul Gheit said in a statement.
The ideas proposed by Netanyahu in his recent TV interview "are nothing more than mere fantasies or illusions,” he added.
Netanyahu's remark follows US President Donald Trump's controversial statements about relocating Palestinians outside of the Gaza Strip under the guise of rebuilding the war-torn territory, a plot that has sparked strong international condemnation.
Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Ministry, for its part, said on Sunday that it categorically opposes all ideas about displacing Palestinians from their ancestral land Gaza.
During a meeting between Trump and Netanyahu on Tuesday in the White House, the US president said the US could “take over” Gaza's control and relocate its inhabitants as part of a redevelopment plan to transform the war-torn territory into what he called “the Riviera of the Middle East.”
Trump proposed that Gazans could be resettled in neighboring countries such as Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
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