Posted on 12/31/2008 7:55:22 AM PST by presidio9
The "terrible massacre" occurring among the Palestinian people would never have happened if it hadn't been for the divisions among them, said Saudi Arabia's foreign minister at the opening of an emergency Arab League meeting Wednesday.
Saud al-Faisal slammed the ongoing division of the Palestinians between the Islamist Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip and the Palestinian Authority, under Mahmoud Abbas, in the West Bank saying it opened the door to Israel's air strikes against the Gaza Strip.
"This terrible massacre would not have happened if the Palestinian people were united behind one leadership speaking in one voice," he said at the league meeting's opening.
"We are telling our Palestinian brothers that your Arab nation cannot extend a real helping hand if you don't extend your own hands to each other with love," he said.
Israel on Saturday began hitting Hamas targets across the Gaza Strip in response to repeated rocket attacks against the south of the country.
Five days into the attack 374 Palestinians have died, and the Arab League foreign ministers met for the first time since the crisis began in an effort to present a united Arab response in the face of widespread outrage across the region.
At the top of the meeting's agenda is an Egyptian-Turkish proposal for a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas that would also reopen the border crossings to the besieged strip.
The proposal also includes deploying European and Arab observers to check that both Hamas and Israel abide by the truce once it is established.
Egypt, which mediated the six-month-long cease-fire between Hamas and Israel that expired just before the recent attacks, has been a source of increasing animosity in the Arab world over its refusal during the past year to open the crossing between Gaza and Egypt, which has
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Tell me again, how many “palistians” did the Saudis kill and deport after the first gulf war?
Just one guy gets it. There is the problem.
‘if you don’t extend your hand to your brother in love’... and hope he’s not pissed about something and chops it off. IDIOTS! Bomb th’ hell out of ‘em. They’re ALL beneath pigs.
Yo, Saud...
The Jordanians, Lebanese, Egyptians, and YOUR countrymen, the Saudis, have ALL killed Palis and kicked them out of their respective countries. Don’t give us this crap about “Arab unity”, because it has never been a reality. Muslims have been fighting each other since the religion was founded.
Hell, the phrase “The enemy of my enemy is my friend” is an Arab proverb.
Saud al-Faisal, it is only a ‘massacre’ when ALL of you stinking Islamists are erased.
Saudis blame Hamas. Remarkable. Keep at it, Israel. Because when Obama gets in there will be a very different message coming from the Black House.
What is it about continually picking on someone who can thoroughly kick their collective @$$ do the Paleos not understand? That’s a lesson every kid learns on his first day at kindergarten.
Translation:
“It’s Iran’s fault for supporting Hamas”
- Saudi Arabia
Interesting.....
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