Report: Saudi crown prince said Palestinians should 'shut up' or make peace
“It is about time the Palestinians take the proposals and agree to come to the negotiations table or shut up and stop complaining.”
SAUDI CROWN Prince Mohammad bin Salman attends the Future Investment Initiative conference in Riyadh(photo credit: HAMAD I MOHAMMED / REUTERS)ByERIC SUMNERUpdated: Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is reportedly fed up with the Palestinians.Bin Salman, heir to the desert kingdom's thrown, said in a closed-door meeting that Palestinians should accept peace negotiations or "shut up and stop complaining," according to Channel 10 journalist Barak Ravid. The crown prince reportedly made the remarks when speaking with leaders of several Jewish groups while in New York on March 27.“In the last several decades the Palestinian leadership has missed one opportunity after the other and rejected all the peace proposals it was given,” bin Salman said according to a wire sent by the Israeli consulate in New York to Israel’s foreign ministry in Jerusalem that summarized the meeting, as well as information from several US and Israeli diplomats with knowledge of the meeting.“It is about time the Palestinians take the proposals and agree to come to the negotiations table or shut up and stop complaining,” he continued.Bin Salman's reported remarks are the latest addition to what some have pegged as a budding Israeli-Saudi bromance. The young prince is known to hold different views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict than his father, King Salman, and past Saudi kings, having openly supported Israel's right to exist.