Scenes of Palestinians burning and trampling flags of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and pictures of its de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Zayed, have sparked a wave of protests in a number of Arab countries. Their citizens are accusing the Palestinians of ingratitude, treason and hypocrisy.
Gatestone Institute The powerful reactions of many Arabs to the Palestinian campaign of incitement against the UAE — after its agreement establish relations with Israel — are yet another sign of the increased disillusionment in the Arab world with the Palestinians.
The message the Arabs are sending to the Palestinians is roughly, “We are fed up with you and your cause. You people are ungrateful, hypocritical and vindictive. Decade after decade, we pumped billions of dollars into your coffers — and now you have the arrogance to burn our flags and pictures of our leaders and hurl insults at us.”
As Emirati academic Dr. Waseem Yousef wrote on Twitter: “It is stupid to burn my country’s flag and want me to salute you.” In other posts, Yousef commented on the Israel-UAE deal: “When I see the flag of my country being burned by some Palestinians because of the peace treaty with Israel – I apologize to every Israeli man if I offended him in the past.”
Yousef also wrote: “The happiness of the Israeli people with the peace agreement shocked me. I was not expecting it – the peoples want peace”.
Most of the Arabs who feel offended and betrayed by the Palestinians are citizens of the UAE and Saudi Arabia who have taken to social media outlets and other platforms to express their disgust with the Palestinians and their Palestinian Authority and Hamas leaders in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Two popular anti-Palestinian hashtags that have been trending on Twitter in recent months are called: “To Hell With You And Your Cause” and “Palestine Is Not My Cause.”
الرد الفلسطيني من #القدس على التطبيع بين الامارات و اسرائيل #التطبيع_خيانة pic.twitter.com/IdL1vZ4zge
— حركة فتح (@fatehorg) August 14, 2020
The hashtags, managed by citizens of the UAE and Saudi Arabia, are basically telling the Palestinians that the Arabs are fed up with them and their failed leaders. The UAE and Saudi citizens are also using the social media posts to express outrage over the Palestinians’ growing incitement against several Arab states and their leaders, particularly concerning readiness of some Arabs to normalize their relations with Israel.
We spent on the Palestinians what is equivalent of the budgets of five African countries, and in the end they cursed us and accused us of being traitors,” replied another UAE-affiliated social media user, referring to charges by Palestinian leaders that the UAE has “betrayed Al-Aqsa Mosque, Jerusalem and Palestine” by agreeing to establish relations with Israel.
“During the day, the Palestinians hurl insults at the Gulf and accuse the Arabs of selling out [to Israel], but at night these Palestinians go to work in Jewish bars,” according to another comment posted under the hashtag “To Hell With You And Your Cause.”
Several Gulf citizens have expressed gratitude to Israeli policemen who stopped Palestinians from burning UAE flags and photos of Bin Zayed during Friday prayers at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque.
“A thousand greetings to our [Jewish] cousins,” commented Gulf citizen Adnan al-Ameri in response to a (below) showing Israeli policemen preventing Palestinians from trampling on a poster of Bin Zayed. “By God, they [the Israeli policemen] are more honorable than some of the [Palestinian] homeless. A video that deserves to be retweeted with full force.”
الف تحية لابناء عمومتنا 🇮🇱👏
والله انهم اشرف من بعض المشردين 😁
فيديو يستحق الرتويت وبقوة. #لابوك_لابو_كضيتك pic.twitter.com/TqpwG9kidD— عدنان العامري (@ADNANALAMERiTV) August 15, 2020
Manos says
The Turko ErDogan and the other scum nation Qatar can look after those Hamas scum bags. I think Israel or Greece and Russia should liberate Bethlehem before ErDogan converts the Churches into mosques. To hell with the Islamist Palestinian and Hamas.
Lisa says
https://www.rt.com/news/498408-swedens-arab-party-responsibility/
They can all go to Sweden and put the final nails in the country’s coffin,much like they did in Lebanon.
Andrew says
The Israeli people have turned a tiny tiny wee sliver of Desert into a Hi Tech Oasis and yet Gaza and the West Bank are still shit holes even though its the same landscape and the exact same climate, how come?.
These people known as Palestinians are Arabs, from Egypt,Syria etc, and started being called Palestinian people by an EGYPTIAN called Arafat and they all fell for it and now very few of them even know of this as they have been so conditioned to believe Israel is their biggest problem when in fact their very own “leadership” is by far their biggest problem as Abbas, and Hamas, sit high in their Castles, counting their money in a Swiss Bank Account, and telling the youth to go blow themselves up, while taking money from the USA, EU, UAE, Saudi etc and yet complain even more if they dont get more money they demand…
The arrogance is incredible, the indoctrination amazing, and the bloody check insulting.
BareNakedIslam says
Andrew, don’t believe the hype about Gaza and the West Bank:
GAZA prosperity:
West Bank even has a gambling casino:
West Bank Luxury housing/shops
West Bank luxury hotels
And a lot of it was funded and built by Israelis.
Az gal says
Arabs just know which side of their bread is buttered. They hate Iran more than they love the Palestinians. Plus Iran is shite- Infidels
Az gal says
I love to see Muslums angry. They are so psychotic. Especially when they hate each other. And look at the posters they are burning of Trump & the Sheik- foot marks all over them. Do they think that offends us? Lol. We know they have a psychological obsession with feet.
Linda Rivera says
The billions that have been unjustly and wrongly lavished on the PLO/Palestinian Authority Muslim Terrorist organization must be returned to America and other countries immediately.
The haters have become multi millionaires and billionaires with our tax money.
Jack Rider says
What! Hanas’ Haniyeh & Mashaal are each worth $9 Billion US! WTF I thought Gaza was suffering. Hey dudes how about redistributing your wealth to ur ppl?
Steve S says
The other Arabs in the region do not really care for the Palestinian Arabs all that much. And they never did care for them.
In Jordan, for example, the Palestinian refugees are treated like shit. They are not really wanted in Jordan, and they are a thorn in the side of virtually all Arab nations. The same is true in Syria, Lebanon, and other Arab nations.
And to top it off, even Palestinian Arabs treat each other badly too. Hamas is supposedly a freedom fighter group that is supposed to liberate Palestine from the Zionists and destroy the State of Israel. But what they actually are is a bunch of terrorists, thugs, and bullies who feed off of their own people and cause their own people to live in terror and misery. In the meantime, they still have time to commit attacks against Israel and become shit disturbers in other ways as well such as meddling in American politics by endorsing and supporting stooge organizations such as CAIR.
What a lovely and happy Ummah these Muslims have, where they treat their own brothers and sisters like dog crap!
And as we all know who regularly read and visit this forum, Palestinian Arabs are actually treated better by their supposed enemies, the Jews, and the State of Israel, than they are by their own people.
Bugsy278 says
Not only are they fed up with the palistinian’s constant bemoaning about Israel, they know it’s a FAKE cause. The Arab community is saying “ENOUGH, the wars and crying didnt work, its time to end the charade!” The world has lined the pockets of maybe a couple dozen people, with NO money going to where or what it was intended for.
With the tune of the Arab world now changing, i cant wait to hear what our two favorite congresswomen are going to say, Tlaib especially.
Ted says
Palestinians were always considered the trash of the middle east. Their leaders nerd their citizens in a state of agitation to keep their minds off the corruption, lies, and deceipt. One day they may wake up. Everyone in middle east moves ahead, palis move backward along with their lradets
BareNakedIslam says
Ted, they (Palestinians) still are.