He went to the extent of saying, “I think it is most likely a coup attempt behind which Saudi Arabia and the UAE played a key role.”
Zalloum talked about two persons Bassem Awadallah, one of the advisers of Mohammed bin Salman and Sharif Hassan bin Zaid a Jordanian citizen who also holds Saudi citizenship. In the same breath he termed Bassem Awadallah, as one of the leaders of corruption in Jordan and the region.
Talking about attitude of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain towards the Palestinian cause, he said, “The following of subordination policy of the American-Zionist camp has become obvious even to the simple Arab citizen in Jordan and in most Arab countries. What happened under normalization of ties with Israel, reveals the malicious nature of the plan.”
He also gave a strange narrative, “These independent regimes were established according to specific job tasks to serve the colonial West and the Zionist ambitions in Palestine. When Britain declared its Hebrew Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1932, Churchill wired to Chaim Weizmann congratulating him on the accomplishment of half of the promised state of Israel. As for the delusive independence for the rest of the Persian Gulf states, it came in the same context.”
As regards Bahrain and UAE he said, “Indeed, their cooperation with the Zionists is old, and what has appeared to the public in terms of recent normalization of ties does not go beyond the precedent illegitimate relationships. These regimes claim advocating Arabs and Islam, while they are neither Muslim nor Arab.”
After going through interview of Shaker Zalloum, my only concern is that it aims at maligning Saudi Arabia and other Gulf States. He has not made any reference to reports that alleged involvement of one of Mossad agents in the coup.
