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Arabs: U.S. Interests at Risk If It Doesn't Stop Israeli Attacks
Reuters ^ | 1/28/02

Posted on 01/28/2002 12:55:40 PM PST by truthandlife

Arab states plan to send a strongly worded message to the United States that its interests in the Arab world are at risk if it does not stop Israeli attacks on Palestinians, a Saudi newspaper reported on Monday.

The Arabic-language al-Watan quoted what it described as a high-ranking Jordanian source as saying that King Abdullah, now visiting Saudi Arabia, will carry the message to President Bush when he visits Washington this week.

``It will be an Arab message, particularly a Saudi one, that U.S. interests and relations with the Arab states will be in danger if Washington did not try to end Israel's terrorist policy in the region,'' the paper quoted the Jordanian source as saying.

It said that in their talks in Riyadh, the Jordanian and Saudi leaders agreed on the need to exert joint efforts to ``end the suffering of the Palestinian people and lift a siege imposed by Israel on Palestinian President Yasser Arafat.''

King Abdullah, who arrived in Saudi Arabia on Sunday for a two-day visit, is scheduled to meet President Bush on Friday.

He was chairman of the last Arab summit, held in Amman last year.

Arafat has been confined by Israeli tanks to his office in the West Bank town of Ramallah since December, following a series of suicide attacks inside Israel.

The Bush administration has been taking an increasingly tough line against Arafat in recent days, drawing praise from Israel and a call for U.S. sanctions against the Palestinian leadership.

Washington has suspended a cease-fire mission to the Middle East by its envoy Anthony Zinni. The retired Marine Corps general ended his second trip to the region two weeks ago.

Bush has said he was ``very disappointed'' with Arafat for not doing enough to rein in militants behind the attacks on Israel.

Jordanian Foreign Minister Marwan al-Muasher said on Sunday that King Abdullah plans to explain to Bush ``the danger of talking about suspending the peace process or contacts with the Palestinian Authority.''

Oil-rich Saudi Arabia, a key regional ally of the United States, has repeatedly urged Bush to push Israel to help end 16 months of Israeli-Palestinian violence.


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To: veronica, torie
We get from the Saudi's a mere 7% of our oil needs, the ANWR could supply almost as much.

Net, net.......we have no need to protect the Arab leaders from their own people any longer, I agree let's take our toys home and leave 'em to rot.

they don't sell us oil.......they don't get our money......

21 posted on 01/28/2002 1:23:51 PM PST by vooch
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To: veronica
there has been an arab israeli war for a while now through arafat as thier proxie now the west is sick of it and about to squash the sources. look out arab interests in throughout the middle east at risk of being carpet bombed.
22 posted on 01/28/2002 1:25:11 PM PST by veryconernedamerican
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To: truthandlife
As reported by Reuters: the organization which has decided no longer to use the term "terrorist" in reference to the September 11th terrorist attacks.
23 posted on 01/28/2002 1:25:30 PM PST by geros
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To: Sender
Exactly...they won't be oil-rich anymore if we pull out of their country and let Saddam rule that part of the world. Screw em. I know how to ride a bicycle. ;-)
24 posted on 01/28/2002 1:26:32 PM PST by DJ88
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To: truthandlife
Little Saudi royal family, SHUT UP!! You like your pretty palaces, you like your high living, you like to live period? then SHUT UP!!

If we leave your little piee of godforsaken land, you're dead, and if you smartmouth us we will just pick up and leave, then what are you going to do?

' MORONS!!!
25 posted on 01/28/2002 1:30:53 PM PST by Aric2000
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To: Redcloak
Good comeback. Wonder what the Arabic is for "chutzpah"?
26 posted on 01/28/2002 1:32:11 PM PST by Argus
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To: DJ88
that would be our nightmare. we will more likely put leaders of our own choosing in to replace them. not good to put your biggest enemy in charge of such a large amount of cash. my guess the arab leaders are together on this right now. knowing their resources are running out and are ready for war. i could see iran, iraq, saudi, egypt, syria in a war with the west by the end of the year. they will of course lose badly. but it will start with an oil embargo which would hurt the economy in the short term
27 posted on 01/28/2002 1:35:38 PM PST by veryconernedamerican
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To: DoughtyOne
I wonder if the Arab world attacks Israel on an all-out scale.....perhaps their would be something even scarier...like a seven-year peace treaty....
28 posted on 01/28/2002 1:39:22 PM PST by Demosthenes
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To: DJ88
The Saudis are all talk and no action, because they know that if they want to pull an embargo, our good friend Vladimir Putin will open the spigots.
29 posted on 01/28/2002 1:47:31 PM PST by Night Hides Not
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To: Demosthenes
Exactly!!! The ONE which will be broken in 3.5 years. There is going to be a Russian/Arab alliance take place in the fairly near future, and yes, there will be a war, then a "man of peace" will arise that will appear to have all the answers for peace in this region. We all know who he is.
30 posted on 01/28/2002 1:50:21 PM PST by Canadian Outrage
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To: RetiredArmy
Just tell me exactly who is going to attack who and how they are going to cause a huge loss of life. If any Arab states attack Israel they're going to be defeated in about four days, as usual. The arab nations, as usual, don't have the slightest concern for Israel's security needs and don't really view the Israelis as human beings with equal rights. And the Palestinian problem won't be solved until they make some effort to view the situation from the Israeli perspective. Look for a lengthy low-intensity conflict instead.
31 posted on 01/28/2002 1:55:57 PM PST by defenderSD
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To: Argus
suicide or self-imolation... arabic "chutzpah"...
32 posted on 01/28/2002 1:58:35 PM PST by eccl1212
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To: truthandlife
Ah post a barf alert
33 posted on 01/28/2002 1:59:24 PM PST by weikel
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To: Canadian Outrage
There is going to be a Russian/Arab alliance,

Thank you miss cleo.

And just WHO do WE ALL KNOW that "man of peace" is?

Damien omen twelve?

34 posted on 01/28/2002 2:01:28 PM PST by eccl1212
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To: Redcloak
Let's get this straight. Unless Israel stops its outrageous acts of self-defense, the Arab world will punish the US. Boy, I hope so. The Arabs are nothing more than pussy fascists. We'd take their oil fields so fast their heads would spin.
35 posted on 01/28/2002 2:06:24 PM PST by pabianice
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To: pabianice
The Arabs are nothing more than pussy fascists. We'd take their oil fields so fast their heads would spin.

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No we get the Turks to take them and we back up the Turks.

36 posted on 01/28/2002 2:10:20 PM PST by dennisw
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To: truthandlife
Americans: Arabs' existence at stake if they don't stop killing Americans.
37 posted on 01/28/2002 2:14:00 PM PST by Thane_Banquo
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To: dennisw
No we get the Turks to take them and we back up the Turks.

Wasn't Saudi Arabia originally part of the Turkish Empire? By all means, give the Turks back the land stolen by the Saud gangster clan.

38 posted on 01/28/2002 2:16:16 PM PST by Alouette
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To: truthandlife
They have room to talk 95% of Saudia Arabia is for bin laden...........


39 posted on 01/28/2002 2:17:42 PM PST by classygreeneyedblonde
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To: eccl1212
And just WHO do WE ALL KNOW that "man of peace" is?

Our own Bill Clinton

As a believer in reincarnation, it bothers me a bit that Bill was born the year after Hitler died

40 posted on 01/28/2002 2:19:30 PM PST by SauronOfMordor
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