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Harris, in turn, will lead an AJC delegation to Saudi Arabia.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nIssa visits Auschwitz II-Birkenau in Brzezinka, near Oswiecim, Poland, on January 23, 2020. (Photo by Reuters)\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThe senior Saudi cleric’s visit to Auschwitz comes as Saudi Arabia is trying to bring out in the open its years-long clandestine relations with the Israeli regime.\r\n\r\nBack on July 22, 2019, angry Palestinians jeered and cursed a Saudi blogger known to be a huge fan of establishing formal ties between Israel and Saudi Arabia.\r\n\r\nOne video clip posted on Twitter at the time showed Mohammed Saud being cursed and jeered as he was visiting the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem al-Quds .\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nPro-Israeli Saudi blogger jeered by angry Palestinians in Jerusalem al-Quds\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\nAngry Palestinians have jeered and cursed a pro-Israeli Saudi blogger visiting the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem al-Quds.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\nHe was part of a six-person media delegation from the Arab world, including representatives from Jordan, who were in the occupied Palestinian territories at the invitation of the Israeli foreign ministry. \r\n\r\nPalestinians protesting his visit called him a “traitor”, “animal” and “Zionist trash”, and also told him to “go to a synagogue” instead of praying at a mosque.\r\n\r\nAnother video clip showed plastic chairs and sticks being thrown at him as he walked in the market in the Old City.\r\n\r\nLast may, Lebanese daily Arabic-language newspaper al-Akhbar said the Saudi crown prince had offered Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas 10 billion dollars in return for accepting US President Donald Trump’s controversial proposal for peace between the Israelis and Palestinians, dubbed “the deal of the century.”\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nSaudi crown prince offered Abbas $10 billion to accept Trump's plan: Report\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\nSaudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has reportedly offered Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas $10bn to accept the controversial US-backed deal of century.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\nAkhbar noted that Abbas had turned down the offer, saying supporting the deal would be “the end of his political life.”\r\n\r\nEarlier last year, delegates from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Egypt at a meeting of Arab states reportedly opposed bids condemning the normalization of relations with the Israeli regime.\r\n\r\nRussia's RT Arabic television news network reported in March 2019 that Abdullah ibn Muhammad Al ash-Sheikh, the speaker of Saudi Arabia's Consultative Assembly, together with his Emirati and Egyptian counterparts had opposed a paragraph in the final communiqué of the 29th Conference of the Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union in the Jordanian capital city of Amman, which demanded an end to efforts aimed at normalizing ties with Israel and condemned all forms of rapprochement with the occupying regime.","content_html":"
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Senior Saudi religious scholar and former justice minister, Sheikh Muhammad bin Abdul Karim bin Abdulaziz al-Issa, has visited the former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz in Poland along with a Jewish group, days before the Tel Aviv regime is going to commemorate the Holocaust in the occupied Jerusalem al-Quds.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

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On Thursday, Issa, the secretary general of the Mecca-based Muslim World League (MWL), led a delegation of 62 Muslims, including 25 prominent religious scholars, from some 28 countries during the visit.\u00a0A delegation of American Jewish Committee (AJC) officials was in the company as well.<\/p>\n\n

The CEO of the AJC, David Harris, described Issa\u2019s visit to\u00a0Auschwitz\u00a0as highly significant,\u00a0claiming that the trip represented \u201cthe most senior delegation\" of Muslim scholars to visit Auschwitz ever.<\/p>\n\n

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Israeli delegation to visit Saudi Arabia next year amid warming ties<\/a><\/div>\n\n

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An Israeli delegation is going to pay an official visit to Saudi Arabia next year.<\/a><\/p>\n\n

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The visit came less than two years after Issa, who is considered to be a close associate of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, visited the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, in May 2018.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

In May 2019, AJC and MWL signed a memorandum of understanding, agreeing\u00a0to take part in a trip to Auschwitz together this year.<\/p>\n\n

Issa has also accepted an invitation from Harris to address the AJC Global Forum in Berlin in June 2020. Harris, in turn, will lead an AJC delegation to Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n\n

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Issa visits Auschwitz II-Birkenau in Brzezinka, near Oswiecim,\u00a0Poland, on January 23, 2020. (Photo by Reuters)<\/p>\n\n

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The senior Saudi cleric\u2019s visit to Auschwitz comes as Saudi Arabia is trying to bring out in the open its years-long clandestine relations with the Israeli regime.<\/p>\n\n

Back on July 22, 2019, angry Palestinians jeered and cursed a Saudi blogger\u00a0known to be a huge fan of establishing formal ties between Israel and Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n\n

One video clip posted on Twitter at the time showed Mohammed Saud being cursed and jeered as he was\u00a0visiting the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem al-Quds\u00a0.<\/p>\n\n

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Pro-Israeli Saudi blogger jeered by angry Palestinians in Jerusalem al-Quds<\/a><\/div>\n\n

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Angry Palestinians have jeered and cursed a pro-Israeli Saudi blogger visiting the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem al-Quds.<\/a><\/p>\n\n

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He was part of a six-person media delegation from the Arab world, including representatives from Jordan, who were in the occupied Palestinian territories at the invitation of the Israeli foreign ministry.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Palestinians protesting his visit called him a \u201ctraitor\u201d, \u201canimal\u201d and \u201cZionist trash\u201d, and also told him to \u201cgo to a synagogue\u201d instead of praying at a mosque.<\/p>\n\n

Another video clip showed plastic chairs and sticks being thrown at him as he walked in the market in the Old City.<\/p>\n\n

Last may, Lebanese daily Arabic-language newspaper\u00a0al-Akhbar\u00a0said the Saudi crown prince had offered Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas 10 billion\u00a0dollars in return for accepting US President Donald Trump\u2019s controversial proposal\u00a0for peace between the Israelis and Palestinians, dubbed \u201cthe deal of the century.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

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Saudi crown prince offered Abbas $10 billion to accept Trump's plan: Report<\/a><\/div>\n\n

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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has reportedly offered Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas $10bn to accept the controversial US-backed deal of century.<\/a><\/p>\n\n

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Akhbar noted that Abbas had turned down the offer, saying supporting the deal would be \u201cthe end of his political life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

Earlier last year, delegates from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Egypt at a meeting of Arab states\u00a0reportedly opposed bids condemning\u00a0the normalization of relations with the Israeli regime.<\/p>\n\n

Russia's RT Arabic television news network\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0in March 2019\u00a0that Abdullah ibn Muhammad Al ash-Sheikh, the speaker of Saudi Arabia's Consultative Assembly, together with his Emirati and Egyptian counterparts had opposed a paragraph in the final communiqu\u00e9 of the\u00a029th Conference of the Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union<\/a>\u00a0in the Jordanian capital city of Amman, which demanded an end to efforts aimed at normalizing ties with Israel and condemned all forms of rapprochement with the occupying regime.<\/p>\n<\/div>","content_source":"","content_url":"","content_columns":"0","content_date_start":"2020-01-25 12:47:13","content_date_finish":"2020-01-25 12:47:13","content_date_register":"2020-01-25 12:48:55","content_date_last_edit":"2020-01-25 12:48:55","content_show_img":"1","content_show_details":"0","content_show_related_img":"0","content_show_slider":"1","content_show_title_slider":"1","content_comment":"1","content_score":"0","content_recorded":"0","content_confirmed":"0","content_status":"1","content_kind":"0","tag_id":null,"tag_word":null,"tag_service":null,"tag_total":null,"tag_soundex":null,"attach_token":"2442522948","attach_date_register":"2020-01-25 12:48:52","attach_id":"7078","attach_file_ext":"jpg","attach_file_header":"image\/jpeg","attach_img_type":"2","attach_img_width":"650","attach_img_height":"365","attach_file_media":"1","attach_show_watermark":"0","score_average":null,"score_count":null,"score_date_last":null,"visit_count":"484","visit_date_last":"2024-11-25 09:29:30","attach_title":"Senior Saudi scholar visits Auschwitz camp ahead of Holocaust anniversary\r\n 2","node_title":"News,Ordinary","ot_node_left_right":"[{\"node_id\":98, \"left\":2, \"right\":11},{\"node_id\":127, \"left\":66, \"right\":67}]","node_number":"2","allowable_node":"2"}]]