From the New Yorker: Saudi Jew-Hatred in 1943
The article is a book review by David Remnick of “Blood and Sand,” a revisionist history of Israel (by an Israeli; showing they are their own worst enemies, but that’s another topic). In the article Remnick writes this about the Saudis:
—-
In 1943, when Franklin Roosevelt sent out feelers to King Ibn Sa’ud of Saudi Arabia to solve the Palestine situation, the King responded that he was “prepared to receive anyone of any religion except (repeat except) a Jew.” In a letter to F.D.R., he wrote, “Palestine … has been an Arab country since the dawn of history and … was never inhabited by the Jews for more than a period of time, during which their history in the land was full of murder and cruelty.” In 1947, Jordan’s prime minister, Samir Rifa’i, hardly the most radical politician in the region, told reporters, “The Jews are a people to be feared… . Give them another twenty-five years and they will be all over the Middle East, in our country and Syria and Lebanon, in Iraq and Egypt… . They were responsible for starting two world wars… . Yes, I have read and studied, and I know they were behind Hitler at the beginning of his movement.”