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December 2, 2008       Share:    

Source: http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD213208

Saudi Columnist: Why Do We Object to Occupation Only in Palestine?

[MEMRI] Mash'al al-Sudairi, a columnist for the London daily Asharq Alawsat, wrote on Sep. 15: "With all the turmoil over the Palestinian issue, we have completely forgotten that other Arab countries have been robbed of parts of their territories, in broad daylight - and we never uttered a word of protest." "Have we forgotten Alexandretta [a Syrian district taken over by Turkey after World War I]?... Since most of the Arabs of Alexandretta are Sunni, like the Turks, they were classified as Turks....In this way, Alexandretta, 95% of whose population was Arab, was taken away." "The same thing happened to the Al-Muhammara Emirate, the former Arabistan, which Britain gave to Iran on a 'tray of oil.' And now Iran has occupied the islands belonging to the UAE (Greater Tunb, Lesser Tunb and Abu Moussa), exactly as it did in the Shah's era."

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