Peloni: While Saudi Arabia does not recognize the state of Israel, it certainly wants Israel to recognize its anger with Israel. Beyond the report below, in recent days leading upto this sermon, the Saudis have threatened further distancing from Israel over its actions in Syria, and the rabbi of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Rabbi Jacob Herzog, has been barred from entering Saudi Arabia. These are not coincidences.
Janet Levy: Mecca is the pulpit that transmits messages to the entire Muslim world – global religious signaling. What’s broadcast at the Grand Mosque represents the ideology, politics, and policies of the Saudi rulers.
The mosque in Mecca is run by the Saudi state and its imams are state-appointed. It’s impossible for a sermon to be delivered there that goes against the positions of the Kingdom.
This was part of a December 13th sermon:
“Our children in our beloved and respected Palestine… stood with their stone sticks and bodies against the oppressive, brutal Zionist enemy with its varied, superior, deadly weapons…
Oh Allah, deal with the Jews who have seized and occupied, for they cannot escape Your power. Oh Allah, send upon them Your punishment and misery which is never repelled from the wrongdoing people.”
Ask yourself what the Abraham Accords REALLY mean? Smells like, walks like and talks like taqiyya.
Vlad Tepes | RAIR | Dec 24, 2025
The Grand Mosque of Mecca. Photo by Richard Mortel – Flickr, CC BY 2.0, Wikipedia
From Islam’s holiest, state-controlled pulpit in Mecca, the sermon praised Palestinian violence and explicitly prayed for divine punishment and misery to be inflicted on Jews, presenting that message as legitimate religious guidance broadcast to the Muslim world.
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