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Saudi blogger visits Israel as Netanyahu`s guest, attacked by Palestinians

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SAUDI BLOGGER ATTACKED BY PALESTINIANS IN OLD CITY, TOLD TO `GO TO
SYNAGOGUE`
Another video shared wildly also shows a child spitting on the Saudi blogger
and others chanting for him to leave the city.
BY HERB KEINON, ZACHARY KEYSER JULY 23, 2019 15:10
2 minute read.



Saudi blogger Mahmoud Saud in the Knesset on Monday with Avi Dichter (l),
the head of the Knesset Fo
Saudi blogger Mahmoud Saud in the Knesset on Monday with Avi Dichter (l),
the head of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, and Hassan
Kaabia, the Foreign Ministry`s Arabic-language spokesman (r). (photo credit:
Courtesy)


Mahmoud Saud, a Saudi law student and blogger, who is part of an
unprecedented six-person media delegation from the Arab world, was cursed,
spat at, jeered and told to “go to a synagogue” on Monday as he went to the
Temple Mount.

One video clip showed Saud walking on the Temple Mount as people shouted
epithets at him such as “traitor,” “animal” and “normalizer,” and small boys
approached and spat in his face. Another video clip showed plastic chairs
and sticks being thrown at him as he walked in the market in the Old City.

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Saud is the only member of the six-person delegation who was willing to go
public, having agreed to be photographed in the Knesset with Foreign Affairs
and Defense Committee chairman Avi Dichter.

Dichter released a photo, even though a day earlier a Foreign Ministry
official would not give any identifying information about the members of the
delegation – which also includes citizens from Iraq, Jordan and other
countries with whom Israel does not have diplomatic relations – because of
concern for their safety when they return home, he said.

Saud, according to the Foreign Minister official, was unconcerned about
going public.
According to a statement by Dichter, one member of the delegation said,
“This visit to Israel is like touring a dreamland. If only we would be able
to bring hundreds of people from our countries, so that when they go back
they can tell what they saw and felt.”

Dichter told the delegation that Israel decided to move forward with
contacts in the Arab world, first and foremost Saudi Arabia, “and not to
wait until the Palestinian Authority decides to fight terrorism.”

Shai Cohen, the Knesset’s diplomatic adviser, told the delegation that the
Knesset is interested in forging ties with parliaments in the Arab states.
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“We separate between progress on the peace process with the Palestinians and
deepening our ties with the moderate Arab world,” he said.

According to Israeli media, the Saudi Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Nizar
Amer said on Twitter that they `strongly condemn the cruel and immoral
behavior of some Palestinians near the Al-Aqsa Mosque toward a Saudi media
personality who came to Jerusalem to be a bridge to peace and understanding
between peoples,` adding that the attackers are using the holy Muslim site
as a `political tool.`
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