Palestine rated nothing in Jeddah conference

The Islamic Cooperation Organization (IOC) held an emergency session in Jeddah on an official call by the Saudi Arabia. The meeting however paid no attention to the Palestinian issue both in talks and final statement.

It is ironical that the IOC was originally formed in a bid to support the Palestinian nation and counter the Zionist regime’s aggressions in the occupied Palestinian territories, the occupied al—Quds (‘Jerusalem’) in particular. One may hold the organization owes its very existence to the Palestinian issue.

The absence is further ironical as the statement was issued amid the current anti-occupation intifada in the occupied Palestine in which over 160 Palestinians have laid their lives and thousands more have taken injuries.

Saudi actually dealt a blow to the Palestinian nation so as it helped Israel meet list longtime dream of replacing the Palestinian issue with other regional issues in the political agenda of the regional states, offering the Zionist regime a leeway for more illegal settlement buildings in the occupied territories and killing more Palestinians amid a regional indifference.

Of note is that Saudi projects in the past few years have all but served the Zionist regime one way or another by pushing the Palestinian issue from the regional agenda.