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Published on 15th April 2007

Saudi treachery: Past and Present

written by Editorial

King Abdullah Ibn Saud began the proceedings of the recent

Arab league summit held in Riyadh on the 28th March with
an opening speech where he said Arab woes lay with
squabbling Arab rulers, who could only prevent "foreign
powers from drawing the region's future" if they were
united. He then went on to say in regards to the history of
the Arab league ‘the question is: what have we done
throughout these years to resolve all that? I do not want to blame the Arab League
because it is an entity that reflects our conditions in details, so the real blame should
fall on us: we the leaders of the Arab nations. Our permanent differences, our refusal
to take the path of unity – all of that led the nations to lose their confidence in our
credibility and to lose hope in our present and future.

He described some of the problems faced by the Muslim world "In beloved Iraq,
blood is flowing between brothers, in the shadow of an illegitimate foreign
occupation, and abhorrent sectarianism threatens a civil war…In wounded Palestine,
the mighty people suffer from oppression and occupation. It has become vital that
the oppressive blockade imposed on the Palestinians end as soon as possible so the
peace process will get to move in an atmosphere without oppression."

What King Abdullah outlined in his opening speech of the current problems facing
Muslims is well known amongst the Muslim world, what King Abdullah however did
not outline is the role he and the Saud family have played in creating and prolonging
these very issues. The Saud family have a history of treachery against the Ummah
and have played a key role in preventing unity within the  Muslim world.

Beginning in 2006, King Abdullah has been reviving the Arab peace initiative which
will recognise the state of Israel if it gives back territories seized in the 1967 war. For
this, King Abdullah brokered the Mecca agreement between the Hamas government
and Fatah. King Abdullah showed his true colours when Israel invaded Lebanon in
July 2006, he alongside Jordan, Egypt, several Gulf States and the Palestinian
Authority, chastised Hezbollah for unexpected, inappropriate and irresponsible acts,
at an emergency Arab League summit meeting in Cairo. Saudi foreign minister,
Prince Saud al-Faisal at the time said "These acts will pull the whole region back to
years ago, and we cannot simply accept them." Saudi Arabia even got its leading
Ssheikh, Abdullah bin Jabreen, to issue a fatwa, declaring it unlawful to support, join
or pray for Hezbollah.

The Saud family on every occasion side with the colonialist western powers in
providing active support. In the first Gulf war King Fahd authorized the deployment
of U.S. forces on Saudi soil, the kingdom hosted over 600,000 allied forces, and its
treasury reached record deficit levels. The U.S. spent $60 billion on the first Gulf
War, with the Saudis and Kuwaitis footing half the bill. Presently, 5,000 U.S. troops
have remained in the kingdom since the end of the Gulf War. By 1999, their
presence had served as a major grievance for Saudi citizens and resulted in a group
of 107 Wahhabi religious figures sending a 46-page "Memorandum of Advice" to
King Fahd, which criticized the government for corruption and other abuses and for
allowing U.S. troops on Saudi soil. King Fahd’s response was to sack them all.

Historic Al Saud treachery

Treachery runs deep in the Al Saud family as the Saud family played a direct role in
the destruction of the Khilafah and the creation of Israel. The British empire’s
Foreign office made contacts with Ibn Saud in 1851 in order to develop relations with
those suitable to be used against the Khilafah which had its capital in Istanbul. The
Saud family at the time were a band of bandits involved in petty tribal differences,
however with British money and arms Ibn Said was able to consolidate his position
in key areas of the Arabian peninsular and eventually the whole peninsular. This was
all represented in the treaty Britain signed in 1865 when Britain wanted allies in the
region to give it a foothold within the territory of the decaying Uthmani Khilafah. In
return, Ibn Saud needed Britain’s logistical and military aid to disrupt the Khilafah
from within.

Britain provided Ibn Saud small subsidies, which were used to expand and maintain
a colony of Wahabi forces that were the backbone of Ibn Saud’s all conquering army.
Ibn Saud attempted to gain legitimacy by using the Wahabi movement, the followers
of  Muhammad ibn Wahab, who believed the Arab lands required purifying with his
opinions of Islam. Ibn Wahab used the Wahabis to give his pro-British backed
policies religious credibility and the Wahabis saw the opportunity to see their
interpretations of Islam become the dominant school of thought in the area.

In 1910 the Al Sauds’ became ever more important to Britain as they would rebel
against the Uthmani Khilafah, with British backing, by attacking there own cousin
Ibn Rasheed who supported the Khilafah. Small subsidies became larger and a cabal
of advisers were despatched to assist Ibn Saud’s advance.

The Arab Revolt (1916–1918) was initiated by Sherif Hussein ibn Ali with full British
blessing with the aim to separate the Arab peninsula from Istanbul. This agreement
was concluded in June 1916 after an exchange of letters with British High
Commissioner Henry McMahon who managed to convince Sherif Hussein of his
reward for such treachery of an Arab empire encompassing the area between Egypt
and Persia, with the exception of imperial possessions and interests in Kuwait, Aden,
and the Syrian coast. The British government in Egypt immediately sent a young
officer to work with the Arabs. This man was Captain Timothy Edward Lawrence,
otherwise known as Lawrence of Arabia.

After the defeat of the Uthmani Khilafah in 1918 and its subsequent dissolution in
1924, the British granted control over the newly formed states of Iraq and
Transjordan to the sons Faisal and Abdullah as had been previously agreed. The
house of Al Saud was able to bring the whole of Arabia under there control by 1930.
Britain’s vision of Arabia’s fate following the Khilafah’s defeat was clear: in the words
of Lord Crewe it wanted “a disunited Arabia split into principalities under our
suzerainty”. For their part, the Saud’s, were, by and large, happy to acquiesce.

The Saud family directly collaborated with the British to destroy the Khilafah and if
that wasn’t bad enough the Saud family directly collaborated with Zionists in
establishing Israel. King Abdullah 1 of the then British created Transjordan studied
with David Ben Gurion (Israel’s first prime minister) in Istanbul in the 1930’s.
Abdullah had offered to accept the establishment of Israel in return for Jordanian
control of the Arab populated parts of Palestine. In 1946 Abdullah expressed interest
in ruling over the Arab parts of Palestine, and had no intention to resist or impede
the partition of Palestine and creation of a Jewish state, as described by one
historian. 
His brother Faisal King of Iraq even eclipsed Abdullah’s treachery in January 1919.
Faisal signed the Faisal-Weizmann Agreement, with Dr. Chaim Weizmann,
President of the World Zionist organizationin where he conditionally accepted the
Balfour Declaration based on the fulfillment of British wartime promises of
independence to the Arabs.
Saudi Arabia since 1995 has imported $64.5 billion in weaponry, far surpassing the
second-largest importer, Taiwan, which acquired only $20.2 billion in arms.
However none of this in anyway has been used for the defence of Muslims or
conflict areas where Muslims are being suppressed. The only time Saudi has gone to
war has been during the gulf war where it supported the coalition against Iraq and
during WW1. The recent cancellation of an investigation into the al Yamamah arms
deal between Saudi and Britain shows the Saud family have never had the stomach
to stand up for Muslim issues but merely purchase weaponry to ensure the
industries of its western masters continue whilst they betray the Ummah.

__________________

1. Sela, Avraham. "Abdallah Ibn Hussein." The Continuum Political Encyclopedia of

the Middle East, New York: Continuum, 2002. pp. 13-14.
  Chaim Weizmann, Trial and Error, New York: Schocken Books, 1966, pp. 246-247;
and also Howard Sachar,  A History of Israel: From the Rise of 2. Zionism to Our
Time, (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979), p. 121.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/faisal_balfour.html
 

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