Israel peace deal: Saudi Prince Bandar slams Palestinian leadership

TDT | agencies

Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz slammed the Palestinian leadership for criticizing the normalization deals with Israel.
The former intelligence chief and ambassador to the United States said this in an interview aired by Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television aired on Monday.

Prince Bandar described Palestinian criticism as "transgression" and "reprehensible discourse" during the interview.
"The Palestinian cause is a just cause, but its advocates are failures, and the Israeli cause is unjust but its advocates have proven to be successful. That sums up the events of the last 70 or 75 years," he said in the first of a three-part airing of the interview.
"There is something that successive Palestinian leadership historically share in common: they always bet on the losing side, and that comes at a price."

Prince Bandar noted the decades-long support of successive Saudi kings to the Palestinian cause and said the Palestinian people should remember that the kingdom has always been there for them to offer help and advice.
"This low level of discourse is not what we expect from officials who seek to gain global support for their cause," he said.
Prince Bandar's daughter, Princess Reema, is the current Saudi ambassador to the United States.