John,
As Israeli forces gear up to completely flatten Gaza, vowing to destroy every standing building and displace 2 million people (again), Donald Trump will be en route to the Middle East.
One likely agenda item: getting Saudi Arabia to normalize relations with Israel.
This would be catastrophic for the region. More than ever we need leaders to stand with Palestinians and use every tool available to hold the Israeli government to account, not finance Israel's occupation and genocide through trade and other relations.
Now Arab leaders, especially Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman, are under immense pressure: bend the knee and capitulate to Trump’s demands, or stand with their people and the people of the world.
Tell Saudi Crown Prince MBS and all Arab leaders: resist Trump.
The situation in Gaza is as dire as it gets. No aid has entered the strip for 68 consecutive days, and UN officials just said the famine in Gaza is reaching “catastrophic levels” with at least 57 people dying from starvation.
But Israel’s security cabinet has other plans. On Sunday it announced that the Gaza Strip will be gradually re-occupied, flattened, and Palestinians forcibly displaced once again to a “humanitarian area”. We know what happens to these so-called safe zones because we’ve seen it countless times before: indiscriminate bombings and attacks on innocent civilians.
Donald Trump went from boasting about striking a peace deal between Israel and Hamas to essentially handing Netanyahu carte blanche to exterminate Palestinians. He recently told Time Magazine that he thinks Saudi Arabia will agree to normalize relations with Israel during his trip to Riyadh.
In the past, Saudi Arabia has stated that normalization isn’t on the table unless there’s a Palestinian state. But we’ve seen other Arab states capitulate to Trump before, like when the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain both agreed to normalization during Trump’s last presidency.
There’s still a chance to stop this, but it will only work if everyone joins and makes this huge. Add your name now and let’s show Arab leaders, especially MBS, that people all over the world are urging them to resist Trump and Netanyahu’s dangerous plans:
Tell Arab leaders: resist Trump.
