Saudi regime sees no obstacle to granting Palestine to Jews: Yemen’s Grand Mufti

The Grand Mufti of Yemen and head of Yemen Scholars Association says Saudi Arabia sees no obstacle to granting the entire Palestine to Jews, describing such an approach as the principled policy of the Riyadh regime.

“Saudi Arabia’s fundamental position is that there is no obstacle to granting Palestine to the Jews,” Sheikh Shams al-Din Sharaf al-Din said at a conference of Yemeni scholars entitled “Rejection of Trump’s deal and prohibition of normalization with the Zionist enemy” in the capital Sana’a on Thursday.

He added that there will be no real change in the region unless Muslim countries free themselves from the yolk of the United States, Israel, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. 

“The House of Saud is opening amusement parks, where alcoholic beverages are drunk, and is misappropriating public assets for sowing the seeds of division within the Muslim world whilst forbidding Muslims from the Masjid al-Haram (the Great Mosque of Mecca),” he added.

Sheikh Sharaf al-Din noted, “Today the Muslim Ummah is required to form a united front against Israel. There is a crisis of trust in God amongst many of those who think that problems can be resolved through abandoning religion.”

The Grand Mufti of Yemen then called upon all Muslims to rally around free and brave leaders and reject those who are linked to the US.

On January 28, President Donald Trump unveiled his so-called deal of the century, negotiated with Israel but without the Palestinians.

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Palestinian leaders, who severed all ties with Washington in late 2017 after Trump controversially recognized Jerusalem al-Quds as the capital of the Israeli regime, immediately rejected the plan, with President Mahmoud Abbas saying it “belongs to the dustbin of history.”

Palestinian leaders say the deal is a colonial plan to unilaterally control historic Palestine in its entirety and remove Palestinians from their homeland, adding that it heavily favors Israel and would deny them a viable independent state.

The Saudi foreign ministry said on January 29 it “appreciates” Trump’s efforts and called for direct Israeli-Palestinian talks.