Posted on 04/30/2007 11:31:30 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
"The Palestinians," the late Abba Eban famously said, "never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity." This seems to go for the Arab world as a whole, judging by the recent Arab leaders' summit in Riyadh. Those taking part are sometimes referred to as the "axis of moderates" -- though it would require creative amnesia to classify Saudi Arabia, one of the principal ideological and financial founts of Islamist fundamentalism, as a "moderate."
Tom Friedman of the New York Times termed the conference resolutions "emotionally stale," but this may not be the worst of it. In Riyadh, the Arab leaders, looking at the new realities in the Middle East, had a chance to actually make a serious move toward ending the more than 100-year-old Arab-Jewish conflict. Instead they submitted to Israel what amounts to an ultimatum: Accept our demands, or face ongoing violence.
Their convoluted logic probably goes something like this: Israel, after its less-than-brilliant performance in Lebanon and considering its weak leadership, won't have the sinews to resist pressure, and no less importantly, taking into account the state of political affairs in the United States, let alone the imbroglio in Iraq, couldn't the administration, being eager to show some achievements for its policies in the region, be induced to support the Arab stance? Writing in London's Financial Times, Mamoun Fandy, a director of the Middle East program at the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, bears this out. He writes: "Land [i.e., the "territories" held by Israel on the West Bank] for Iraq, instead of Land for Peace, should be the core of any American and European diplomatic initiative in the Middle East."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Peace between the wider Arab world and the Jewish state is not impossible.”
Absolutely right. Kill off and run off all the Jews and the Arab world would be at peace with the Jewish “state”.
Of course, then the Arabs would be tracking down the rest of the worlds Jews and killing them.
Then, with the Jewish “problem” solved, it would be “give us Kansas for a state of our own or there will be ((((JIHAD))))!!!!!”.
sinews?
What is that?
muscles
It’s the connector between the muscles and the bone.
thanks
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I go one better:
The Arabs have done nothing (much) in making peace with the rest of the world....by squashing the terrorist activity.
It’s time the world leaned on them to take more responsibility to control terrorist and homicide bombers.
Humiliation.
One cannot talk about Arabs without some discussion of the humiliation they have suffered.
The Nations of the Muslim Middle East should be among the wealthiest in the world, yet they have done less with more than any people in history. Their massive failure is not coincidental but is inseparable from their anti-Semitism; unless there is a change in their soul-sickness, they will destroy any hope their people can ever have in becoming part of the successful, modern world of possibilities.
"I hate, therefore, I am."
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