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Published · transcript-backedDavid Commins: belief
17 Sept 2025 Conversations with Tyler David Commins on Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, and the Future of the Gulf States
“I guess my hunch is that any critical attitude toward Palestinians on the part of the Saudi government would be that they’re inconvenient, because I think what the Saudi government wants is a very neat, seamless integration with Western economic, political, technological, and military spheres.”
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- 17 Sept 2025
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…— they seem highly skeptical about the Palestinians, would be my sense, relative to, say, many other Arab groups. Well, this might be true of the current government, maybe. I really don’t know. I’m not part of this conversation. I guess my hunch is that any critical attitude toward Palestinians on the part of the Saudi government would be that they’re inconvenient, because I think what the Saudi government wants is a very neat, seamless integration with Western economic, political, technological, and military spheres. The Palestinians get in the way of that. They might say that. I’m not sure that’s true, but that might be how they see it. Now, as you know, the senior religious establishment is largely Nejd, right? Why does that matter? What’s the historical significance of that?…
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