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Prince Sultan — who is also second deputy prime minister, defense and aviation minister, and inspector general of Saudi Arabia — has been making statements against Jews for years. Following a ceremony at the Saudi Public Institution for Military Industries in June 2002, when asked about U.S. criticism of Saudi Arabia, Prince Sultan replied to the Saudi daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, “It is enough to see a number of congressmen wearing Jewish yarmulkes to explain the allegations against us.” More recently, the Saudi royal family website ‘Ain-Al-Yaqeen, quoted Prince Sultan as saying that the U.S. media, which is “under the Jewish influence,” is using the U.S. reform initiative to widen the gap between Arab countries and the U.S.

Saudi Minister of the Interior Prince Naif bin Abd Al-Aziz, Sultan’s brother, has also made accusations against the Jews. In what has since become an infamous interview reported in Ain-Al-Yaqeen a year after 9/11, Naif explained that Arabs were not involved in the attacks: “We put big question marks and ask who committed the events of September 11 and who benefited from them. Who benefited from events of 9/11? I think they [the Jews] are behind these events.”

Saudi kings have also been known for holding extreme anti-Semitic views. Saudi Princess Fahda bint Saud ibn Abd Al-Aziz — who’s been described as “the daughter of King Saud and the historian of her father’s reign” and who appears occasionally in the Saudi media — has written that her father’s views on the Jews and Israel still serve as inspiration for the Arab and Muslim world. In one article, she explained that King Saud called the Jewish state a deadly disease that would never be accepted by Arabs. “…King Saud made the right diagnosis: ‘The Zionist threat is like cancer — in dealing with it neither medicine nor surgery will do any good.’ This royal statement was meant to emphasize that the Arabs do not, and will not, accept an Israeli state amidst them.” The article added that under the leadership of King Saud, the Saudi Representative to the U.N. called for the establishment of a U.N. agency “to help resettle Jews [now in Israel] in their former European homes.”