Largely to cover up their own guilt. People like this sheik are taking the oil wealth of the Middle East and squandering it. They the life of Allah while the Palestinians and the Muslim masses are kept poor, ignorant, and powerless.

Then he has the nerve to come to New York and say the the U.S. is to blame.

I've heard that Isreal is the only nation in the Middle East where Palestinians are allowed to own property. If that is true, then it would seem that the other Arab states are actively persuing a policy of keeping the "Palestinian problem" confined to Isreal by keeping the Palestinian people down. The Truth is, the Saudi's and many other Arabs are more concerned with maintaining their own wealth than with the plight of the Palestinian people.