Here's a postage stamp from that era:
Guess who was in the way of blocking that united dream?
Posted on 04/03/2018 7:52:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Important history was made yesterday, and the tectonic plates of Middle East moved, as the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, explicitly acknowledged Israel's right to exist, in a homeland alongside a Palestinian state. In a wide-ranging interview with Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic:
He told me he recognizes the right of the Jewish people to have a nation-state of their own next to a Palestinian state; no Arab leader has ever acknowledged such a right.
Later in his account of his interview, Goldberg judges:
If Prince Mohammed actually achieves what he says he wants to achieve, the Middle East will be a changed place.
Yes, indeed. "Revolutionary" is not too strong a word for what MbS, as he is widely known, has in mind. And he is no starry-eyed idealist, but a pragmatist responding to the existential threat to his regime, and more broadly to Sunni Islam, posed by the Shiite mullahs of Iran, intent on developing a nuclear arsenal with which to hasten a final, cataclysmic Armageddon and a return of the Twelfth Imam, the Mahdi, who will usher in an era of peace under the world rule of (Shia) Islam.
For a host of pragmatic reasons, MbS and Saudi Arabia need Israel's help in countering Iran. The old shibboleths of support for the Palestinians in their quest to drive the Jews into the sea no longer are useful.
Public acknowledgement of this change in policy is a major turning point in the Middle East. For decades, Saudi money has been crucial in keeping the Palestinian hereditary refugees able to reproduce and multiply in their "camps" (really, cities), agitating against the existence of Jews in the Dar al Islam –
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no Arab leader has ever acknowledged such a right.
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Pretty sure Anwar Sadat did and pretty sure he was an Arab leader.
Pretty sure he was killed for it, too.
I love this guy. He can actually change the Middle East.
Ping.
Cool beans.
That’s not just important, that’s a polar shift in policy.
I hope he has a backup food taster.
Nobody seems to notice that he said, “alongside a Palestinian state”.That means in his head wrapped mind he thinks the West Bank should take a huge bite out of Israel, and bring all of Israel into artillery and rocket range.
Besides who gives a flying fornication what a fuedal monarch thinks?
Here’s another amazing admission:
Saudi Crown Prince Admits Saudis “Financed Terrorist Groups”, Blesses Israeli Statehood
My first thought-—I see an Anwar Sadat ending in his future.
My first thought was of Sadat as well.
I am not so sure that he ever said Israel had a right to exist but he did make peace with Israel.
Yes, this prince has put a price on his own head.
Now any young devout Muslim male will see this prince as his ticket to 70 virgins.
How long before he gets assassinated?
Anwar Sadat was an Egyptian, not an Arab.
I do believe you are correct - on all counts.
Just more of that to state solution mentality. The West Bank should never be a nationstate. It should always remain an occupied territory of Israel will not be coming fully part of the country. Even the most cursory look at the map shows how deadly it would be to make the West Bank into a nation. Not to mention giving them full control of Jerusalem. So in reality the kings statement really doesn’t mean that much.
Egyptians are Arabs.
Most Egyptians do not consider themselves Arabs, and likewise most Arabs do not consider Egyptians as Arabs either.
Of course there are people of Arabian descent living in Egypt, but there are also a lot of people from Somalia living in Minnesota.
So some 19 year kid who was born in Israel, whose parents where born there, should "just leave"? And where the hell should he go?
Well Sadat was the leader of the Arab Republic of Egypt, earlier known as the united Arab republic. He was pretty Arab.
He’s working towards it. He’s also tortured and stolen billions in ransom money from other legitimate rulers in the ME.
Israel had better watch their back.
Here's a postage stamp from that era:
Guess who was in the way of blocking that united dream?
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