If Trump had remained president, we might have seen a peace accord between Israel and Saudi Arabia. Instead, this, because the Saudis know which way the wind is blowing.
“Saudi prince strongly criticizes Israel at Bahrain summit,” by Jon Gambrell and Aya Batrawy, AP, December 6, 2020:
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — (AP) — A prominent Saudi prince harshly criticized Israel on Sunday at a Bahrain security summit that was remotely attended by Israel’s foreign minister, showing the challenges any further deals between Arab states and Israel face in the absence of an independent Palestinian state.
The fiery remarks by Prince Turki al-Faisal at the Manama Dialogue appeared to catch Israel’s foreign minister off guard, particularly as Israelis receive warm welcomes from officials in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates following agreements to normalize ties.
Left unresolved by those deals, however, is the decades-long conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. The Palestinians view those pacts as a stab in the back from their fellow Arabs and a betrayal of their cause.
Prince Turki opened his remarks by contrasting what he described as Israel’s perception of being “peace-loving upholders of high moral principles” versus what he described as a far-darker Palestinian reality of living under a “Western colonizing” power.
Israel has “incarcerated (Palestinians) in concentration camps under the flimsiest of security accusations — young and old, women and men, who are rotting there without recourse to justice,” Prince Turki said. “They are demolishing homes as they wish and they assassinate whomever they want.”
The prince also criticized Israel’s undeclared arsenal of nuclear weapons and Israeli governments “unleashing their political minions and their media outlets from other countries to denigrate and demonize Saudi Arabia.”
The prince reiterated the kingdom’s official position that the solution lies in implementing the Arab Peace Initiative, a 2002 Saudi-sponsored deal that offers Israel full ties with all Arab states in return for Palestinian statehood on territory Israel captured in 1967.
He added: “You cannot treat an open wound with palliatives and pain killers”…
matthew miller says
so much for warming ties from the Bedouin despots
Carol says
Saudi officials tricked U.S. Military brass into backing Koranimals against non-Koranimals during the 1980’s Soviet War in Afghanistan and the 1990’s wars between Koranimals and non-Koranimals of the Balkans.
b.a. freeman says
we were indeed fools in those fights, Carol; in both cases, we backed the rabid wolf instead of the USSR, the enemy of our enemy.
Honest Ali says
Trump still is our president. Our Constitution does not allow anyone to seize power by fraud. And to seize power by fraud is Tyranny.
And there are tens of millions of American Patriots, more than all the armies in the world put together, who are willing to die on that hill.
And the Saudis, have always followed Muhammad’s maxim, “war is deceit”… because they have always, first and foremost, been Muslims. They have not, and have never been, our allies.
The Saudis funded and planned 9/11.
b.a. freeman says
well put, HA!
+1
mortimer says
Psychological projection is on display in these remarks. Saudi Arabia arbitrarily and arrests its own people, since there is no constitutional protection of their human rights. The Saudi royals rule as if it were the year 700AD without legal restraints to their power.
b.a. freeman says
sadly, mortimer, there are no legal limitations on the saudi barbarian royalty; they are indeed muslim thugs, and this f***ing lying pious muslim (whose non-sharia-compliant behavior is explained by taqiyyah) is actually telling the truth for once.
islam is the rabies of the mind.
Mischief Maker in the Land says
What a Turki.
b.a. freeman says
😀
+1
gravenimage says
Hilarious!
Michael Copeland says
Straightforward slander.
Infidel says
Yeah, those who pointed out that the Saudis (and for that matter, other Arabs) could not be trusted, turned out to be right!
Wellington says
Helping to demonstrate what a complete eff-up Biden will be as President. Trump thought outside the box (N.B., Biden can’t even think properly inside the box) and so was able to maneuver the never-to-be trusted SA into an informal understanding with Israel because Trump did the right thing by abandoning the so-called Palestinians and focusing on the ultimate nemesis in the Middle East, Iran.
Now, Biden and the clowns advising him will undo all that Trump achieved. Biden and his clowns will attempt to erase Trump’s accomplishments which are legion (examples being pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal, replacing NAFTA with the USMCA, getting rid of many restrictions on medium and small businesses, opposing the politicization of sports, standing up to China over its tariffs and currency manipulation, pulling out of the entirely bogus Paris Climate Accord, not starting any new wars, making NATO members pay more, et al.) and this is why I think anyone who voted for Biden is, at best, a fool.
somehistory says
“You cannot treat an open wound with palliatives and pain killers”…
I recall another moslim saying something similar when talking about “Grandma needing a hip replacement….She may be told to go home and take a pill.”
If it was going to be okay for a little old, frail, American Grandma needing an operation to be told to take a pain pill instead, then why not tell the terrorist living next door and getting paid to terrorize, ‘take a pill and don’t call me in the morning’?
moslims lie. moslims lie more often than they commit murderous jihad…which they do more than can be counted because we don’t hear about all those murders of family members that go on in moslim ruled countries. We don’t read about every baby girl killed by being raped or mangled with a dirty knife.
This moslim is lying. He’s a well-practiced liar. Other moslims know better than to believe him, but they will pretend to in order to “avenge” their “brothers.”
b.a. freeman says
nazi joe doesn’t give a rat’s a** if some knuckle-dragging right-winger’s son or daughter dies in a war in the mideast, because *his* son served a year in (iraq? not sure) in a safe zone in a desk job designed for *him*, because he was commissioned an officer without the usual requirements needing to be met – in other words, a political officership (yes, they still exist, and all nazi kids who want them can get them – but not U, right-winger). f***ing lying leftist thief and Party member – that’s joe biden, who is the LEAST repulsive among the NAZIcrat leadership.
Rarely says
Why hold back? Tell us what you really think.
David M says
Why doesn’t this prince care about what the Chinese communist party are doing to the Muslim Uighurs in the millions? What he is claiming Israel is doing China is actually doing to them. He doesn’t seem to care about his fellow Muslims in China.
somehistory says
He doesn’t care about the ones he’s claiming are being horribly mistreated, either. It’s just a ploy, a weapon, lies to harm Israel. After all, Jews are in the government in Israel…the eternal enemy of him as a moslim; and in China, it’s “Godless Communists” and they are brutal…with a lot of serious weapons and a large army. No conscience and dangerous weapons are a lethal combo.
gravenimage says
Saudi prince claims that Israel puts ‘Palestinians’ in concentrations camps and ‘assassinates whomever they want’
…………………….
What grotesque calumny.