| De facto Saudi Arabian leader Prince Abdullah is upset with the western press. "The vicious Western media attack against the Kingdom is only because of the ancient spite against Islam and Saudi Arabia's commitment to Islam," he recently opined... Prince Abdullah's publication last week of a letter he wrote to President Bush on Aug. 27 revealed the fear behind the Saudis' actions. In that letter, the prince warned the United States that a failure to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would lead to a rift between us and the Saudis. The letter said that ". . . it is time for the United States and Saudi Arabia to look at their separate interests." It goes on to say that, "Those [Arab] governments that don't feel the pulse of the people and respond to it will suffer the fate of the Shah of Iran." (WASHINGTON TIMES EDITORIAL) |