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.
Americans: Arab butts at risk if they don't learn to shut their stinking yaps.
Israel's 'terrorist policy' is to stop the Pali terrorists from killing Israeli citizens.
Yeah, the Arabs want Israel to end its policy of stopping terrorists.
This isn't going to be another six day war. Israel isn't going to sacrifice it's citizens only to give the land back this time. We're talking about devistation the likes of which the Arabs generally like to attribute to Israel in their wildest dreams.
It's a shame, cause it didn't have to end this way. Shall we just say good-bye to Damascus, Rhiad, Tehran and Bagdad now?
That's the only way there'll ever be a lasting peace in the region, IMHO...let Israel do to the murdering scumbag PLO what America's doing to the Al-Queda, then there will be peace!!
FReegards...MUD
Ironically, that's the only to have peace..
( Yes, I know.. )
Arabs: U.S. Interests at Risk If It Doesn't Stop Israeli Attacks
Americans: AID $'s stop flowin' if Arabs don't tone down the rhetoric.
What alternative universe do these Arabs live in?
May I point out a few moronic things here? Thank you.
1. I am not scared of a "strongly worded message". Get it?
2. I am not that interested in what the ARABS think about us, okay?
3. Since when does the US have the right to tell Israel that they cannot defend themselves against these thugs that keep blowing up civilians in market places, wedding halls and the like? ARe they off their freeping rockers???? Did they ever sit in their rockers?
4. Fine. You don't like what Israel is doing? Ok. We'll pull out of Saudi Arabia, and YOU CAN DEAL WITH THE AFTERMATH. Like, say...Saddam Hussein. And we won't come running back to save your sorry Saudi butts this time either.
Thank you all for letting me vent. :-)
ps...I should mention that I am talking to the Saudis, not the posters here. :-)
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