JEDDAH, 14 July 2006 — Saudi Arabia, wary about the escalating tensions in the Middle East following Israel’s attack of Lebanon and Palestine, called for saner counsels to prevail.
An official source said Saudi Arabia has always been an avid believer in the rights of nations subjected to occupation to resist it in all its shapes and forms, according to the Saudi Press Agency.
The nation has the right to reject the occupation’s illegal procedures that aim at erasing a nation’s identity and altering ground realities.
This has been the basis of the Kingdom’s stand with regard to the legal Palestinian resistance to military occupation. This has also been the Kingdom’s firm stand with the Lebanese resistance until the end of the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon.
The source added that the Kingdom wanted to clearly state that there must be a differentiation between legal resistance and unaccountable adventures committed by elements within a state without referring to a legal state authority, or consulting and coordinating with Arab countries. Their actions thus expose all Arab countries to grave danger and their achievements to destruction, SPA quoted the source as saying.
The Kingdom sees that the time has come for these elements to solely bear the full responsibility for such irresponsible actions and the task of ending the crisis, that they have triggered, should fall singularly on them.
