In Unprecedented Move, Top Saudi Cleric Says It’s Wrong to Fight Israel

In Unprecedented Move, Top Saudi Cleric Says It’s Wrong to Fight Israel
Saudi's Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh (C) leads prayer at a funeral on Feb. 6, 2008, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. HASSAN AMMAR/AFP/Getty Images
|Updated:

In an unprecedented shift, Saudi Arabia’s top Islamic law cleric declared that it is wrong to fight Israel and called Hamas a terrorist organization.

The mufti’s comments are the latest in a wave of historic changes in Saudi Arabia triggered by President Donald Trump’s bold foreign policy offensive focused on the destruction of radical Islamic terrorism.

Ivan Pentchoukov
Ivan Pentchoukov
Author
Ivan is the national editor of The Epoch Times. He has reported for The Epoch Times on a variety of topics since 2011.
twitter