From time to time, the Palestine Center distributes articles it believes will enhance understanding of the Palestinian political reality. The following article by Raed Jarrar and Alli McCracken was published by Mondoweiss on May 4, 2016.
For decades, Saudi Arabia has been an advocate of Palestinian statehood rights and a critic of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. Saudi Arabia’s commitment to Palestine has defined the geopolitical contours of the Middle East for decades. But now that the Iran nuclear deal has been struck and as the war in Syria ravages on, those political lines are being redrawn, bringing together unexpected bedfellows: Saudi Arabia and Israel.
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