Saudi network removes pro-Palestinian drama from website

The MBC Group, a large Arabic media company headquartered in Saudi Arabia, has taken down what was considered the most important Palestinian historical drama.

Al-Taghreba al-Falastenya (The Palestinian Alienation) is a 2004 “dramatic epic that revolves around the suffering of a poor Palestinian family during the time of the British occupation of Palestine, then the massacres by the Jewish gangs between the 1930s and 1960s.”

Earlier this year, when some Arabs were upset over the Ramadan dramas that did not demonize Jews, some of them warmly remembered this series as being from a time when “normalization” would never have been considered.

According to Arab media, the Saudi MBC channel recently abruptly removed the Palestinian alienation series from its “Shahid Net” website.

Palestinian media is assuming that Saudi recognition of and normalization with Israel is merely a matter of time.