It is outrageous to the extreme the extent with which the entire world refuses to accept the right of the Jewish people to live freely in their own land. Via DebkaFile: In an interview with Reuters, Prince Turki al-Faisal, former Saudi ambassador to the US and UK, again touted the 2002 Saudi peace initiative requiring full Israeli withdrawal from “occupied Palestinian, Syrian and Lebanese land” in return for “full normalization of relations.” But Turki added a refinement: If Israel signed a comprehensive peace, “one can imagine the integration of Israel into the Arab geographical entity.” He went on to say:
Read More +From Saudi Arabia Backs Out of Arab Peace Initiative: Saudi Arabia has dropped its support for a land-for-peace deal between Israel and the Arab world over fears of al-Qaeda attacks, an Israeli official said Saturday. “We estimate the Saudis got cold feet over suspicions of Iran and fears of terror attacks sponsored by Iran and al-Qaeda,” the official said. The official added that Egypt’s intelligence chief Omar Suleiman raised the issue of Saudi Arabia with President Bush during a visit to Washington last week. When Bush announced plans to hold a conference in his speech about the Middle East last
Read More +From “The Saudi Plan Is Dead”: Senior Saudi Officials Admit to Israel that the Initiative Is No Longer Relevant (Hebrew): Israel’s hope to reach an understanding on a political settlement together with the countries of the Arab League has run aground. Senior political officials in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Jordan announced in closed meetings with senior Israelis that the “Saudi Initiative,” which Prime Minister Olmert sees as a basis for an agreement, is presently dead, and that as long as the chaos continues within the Palestinian Authority, there is no point in pursuing this avenue. These clarifications were received by
Read More +Forgotten Legal Rights
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From Forgotten Legal Rights: After most armed conflicts, the international community has sought to re-establish the status quo ante – the previous situation – as part of a political settlement. However, many aspects of the prewar status quo in 1967 were untenable, if not illegal. Jordan and Egypt previously occupied the West Bank and Gaza Strip as a result of an invasion by the Arab states in 1948 that the UN Secretary-General at the time, Trygve Lie, called an act of “aggression.” In the Six-Day War nearly 20 years later, Israel entered these territories in what was plainly a war
Read More +Yeah, I had to read this more than once also. From Olmert: No Palestinian “Right of Return”: Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told the Jerusalem Post that Israel would not accept the return to Israel of any Palestinian refugees. It is “out of the question,” he said. “I’ll never accept a solution that is based on their return to Israel, any number.” Olmert also said Israel would not recognize a “right of return.” “I will not agree to accept any kind of Israel responsibility for the refugees,” he said.The initiative adopted Thursday by the Arab League was the same one passed
Read More +No one is that dumb: 2002 Saudi Peace Initiative as adopted by Beirut Arab Summit [right of return]
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First it was the Germans who dictated to us, and now for more than 60 years its the Arabs. This ugly document keeps resurfacing lately. Who are the Arabs to dictate to Jews who we are, where we should live, what our borders are, what offends us, and where we belong? Arabs overestimate their importance. Israel does not need to prove anything to the Arab world. Arab Palestinians not only have no right to Israel, but only live there because Israeli Jewish leaders lack both courage and piety. There is no law on earth that requires the Jewish people to
Read More +The Saudi Initiative
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received by email from David Bedein—————Bringing back Arab refugees to their homes from 1948 There is an illusion, that the Saudi Initiative is based on the Israel’s withdrawal to the 1967 lines. The following article, written one week after the Saudi Initiative was spawned, clarifies that the Saudi Initiative is based on flooding Israel with 4 million arab refugess and their descendents. In this article published in the Israeli daily Ha’aretz, Professor Itamar Rabinovich – president of Tel-Aviv University, former Israeli ambassador to the United States (1993-96), chief Israeli negotiator with Syria during the premiership of Yitzhak Rabin, a prominent
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