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Middle East
Saudis start snatching the football...
2002-03-24
  • Crown Prince Abdullah believes his peace overture to Israel has been rejected by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. "I found out that everyone wants this proposal except for one person and that's Sharon," Abdullah, was quoted as saying by Al Watan daily. Abdullah's remarks came during a meeting in the Red Sea port of Jiddah Saturday with participants of a symposium on Islam. "If they (Israelis) don't accept it, then we will have exposed them and shown all the world that Arabs and Muslims are the ones who want peace and that some, not all, Israelis don't want peace," he was quoted as saying.

    Abdullah will present his initiative to end the almost 55-year Mideast crisis at an Arab summit that begins Wednesday in Beirut, Lebanon. Almost all the league's 22 members have welcomed the proposal, which offers Israel peace and normal relations with its neighbors in exchange for full withdrawal from areas Israel seized in the 1967 Mideast war. "If the initiative is accepted, then that's what we want. We don't want to fight and we are not bloodthirsty. We like to live in peace, safety and security," the official Saudi Press Agency quoted Abdullah as saying. Sharon, in an interview published Saturday in The Washington Post, said he was interested in Abdullah's vision of "peace and normalization with all the Arab world," but that Israel's security would be threatened if it withdrew to 1967 borders. Sharon told the Post he was ready to talk with the Saudis, but the Saudis have said negotiations should only involve Israel and the Palestinians, the Syrians and the Lebanese.
    This has pretty much been a propaganda ploy from the first. Charles at lfg has been on this from the first and has covered it much better than I could.
    • Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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