They are frightened of their government. You cannot even help accident victims in KSA, they may arrest you. It is a frightening place to live.
I think domestic discontent will build until the death of King Salman, afterwhich there will be a power struggle between MBS and Mohammad bin Nayef loyalists (whom MBS deposed.)
If we look in Ahadith, this is already prophesized that after the death of a king, two factions will fight in Jazirat al Arab, then Al Mahdi will rise.
Allahu Alim on when that will occur exactly.
My good friend and colleague from undergrad was Palestinian. His grandfather and family were forced out of Palestine at gunpoint by Jewish gangsters called Irgun and Haganah from British Palestine. His family settled in Latin America and eventually spread out over Puerto Rico, Grenada, Brazil, etc. When his grandfather tried to go back to recover his land, Israeli settlers had already taken over. He came back empty handed.
There are so many personal accounts like this, some are graphic and deal with massacre, death, rape, and burning to death. Israelis all sorts of intimidation to chase the Palestinians out of their homeland. Everywhere Palestinians went in the Arab world, they became second-class citizens like in Jordan, or faced further violence like in Lebanon from Maronites.
I listen to their stories because it reminds me of what my family suffered in East Punjab from Hindu and Sikh militias organized by Nehru and Congress. My grandparents had to walk barefoot for miles to reach Pakistan, and the women had to hide in locked metal drums.
I will always have a soft spot for those people who have suffered injustice at the hands of oppressors, due to this reason. Whether they are Native Americans, Blacks during slavery, Palestinians, Afghans, Rohingya, Iraqis, or Syrians.
They succeeded in chasing out 50% of Palestinian population and then denying them the right of return to their lands. They have isolated West Bank villages via checkpoints and delegated them to shoddy roads and long lines, which Jewish settlers travel on Jewish only roads, which are well maintained and they face no restrictions.
Do not buy any produce labelled
Made in Palestine, Jordan Valley, and West Bank, as Palestinians hardly profit and most of the profit goes to Israelis.
They realized long ago that Muslims won't buy Made in Israel produce.
So you had some bad experiences with some Arabs. You cannot use it as an excuse to support injustice or view with callousness the suffering of other Arabs. Arabs are a diverse group. Some of them hate Pakistan, these are mostly Muslim Brotherhood of Levant, Arab supremacists, and regime apologists.
Vast majority of Arabs from the Arab world love Pakistanis and support Pakistan in every endeavor. You must realize a few rotten eggs do not spoil the bunch, in this case.
Talking about West Bank, they do not have control over their own electricity, water, airspace, borders, roads. They pay taxes to Israelis, which Israel uses as blackmail to control the PA. They are not allowed to have a military, and any police force runs on their orders. All Palestinian leaders are controlled by Israel.
Those who dare resist are put in jail perpetually, like Marwan Barghouti.
Gaza is an open air prison, whose civilian infrastructure faces constant attack by Israelis. Palestinians cannot even fish past a certain point on their beaches, or they get shot at.
With no proper hospitals, Palestinians leave their sick at the Egyptian border, where kind-hearted Egyptian soldiers take them to hospitals, treat them, and bring them back.
Both Israeli and Egyptian borders are otherwise perpetually closed.
Sheikh Saud Al-
Shuraim,
May Allah swt bless him for his principled stand in favor of Palestinians.