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Don Rizzle:
Saudi: US Iraq presence illegal
The Saudi monarch has made a forceful appeal for Arab unity, denouncing US policy in Iraq and the embargo imposed by western nations on the Palestinians.
At the Arab League summit in Riyadh, King Abdullah described the US presence in Iraq as an illegitimate occupation.

Correspondents say he is seeking to show a measure of independence from Saudi Arabia's ally, the United States.

Arab leaders are meeting to relaunch a plan for peace with Israel that they first endorsed five years ago.

The plan offers Israel normal relations with Arab states if it withdraws from land occupied in 1967, and accepts a Palestinian state.


 SAUDI MIDDLE EAST PLAN
Also known as Beirut Declaration
Adopted by Arab League in 2002
Calls for "full Israeli withdrawal from all the Arab territories occupied since June 1967"
Calls for Israel's "acceptance of an independent Palestinian State, with East Jerusalem as its capital"
All Arab states would establish "normal relations... with Israel" and "consider the Arab-Israeli conflict ended"
Calls for a "just solution to the Palestinian refugee problem" 

Arab hard-liners have accused Riyadh of being ready to water down the "land for peace" deal to gain Israeli acceptance.

Israel's western allies have withheld recognition from a new Palestinian unity government, including members of the Islamist group Hamas which they consider a terrorist organisation.

Abhorrent

The Saudi monarch insisted said the "real blame" for Arab woes lay with squabbling Arab rulers, who could only prevent "foreign powers from drawing the region's future" if they united.

"In beloved Iraq, blood is flowing between brothers, in the shadow of an illegitimate foreign occupation, and abhorrent sectarianism threatens a civil war," said the king.

"In wounded Palestine, the mighty people suffer from oppression and occupation," he said.

"It has become vital that the oppressive blockade imposed on the Palestinians end as soon as possible so the peace process will get to move in an atmosphere without oppression."

"Our constant disagreements and rejection of unity have made the Arab nation lose confidence in our sincerity and lose hope."

Guarded welcome

Separately, Israel's Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres said it refused to accept the revived Arab peace plan as it stood and further discussions were needed.


"There is only one way to overcome our differences, and that is negotiation," Mr Peres told Israeli public radio. "It's impossible to say: you must take what we offer you as is."
Under the plan, Arab nations would recognise Israel if Israel withdrew from land occupied in the 1967 war, accepted a Palestinian state, and agreed a "just solution to the Palestinian refugee problem".

Israel rejected the 2002 plan outright after it was first proposed at an Arab summit in Beirut, but Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is now giving it a guarded welcome, albeit with reservations linked to the issue of refugees.

There are more than four million Palestinian refugees registered with the US, most of them descendants of people living in British-administered Palestine, before Israel was created in 1948.

Israel opposes allowing them to exercise any right to return to their original homes or land, because it could erase its current Jewish majority.

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/middle_east/6505803.stm

Published: 2007/03/29 09:26:01 GMT
 

Kassem:
all these arab leaders just did the whole summit because of the heat their feeling under their asses,from thier fuck ups and support for the usa  ,the fact is they all suck america dick when shit gets real,

Don Rizzle:
i was quite suprised about the iraq criticism I really didn't expect the saudis to say that no matter what their domestic public opinion maybe

J @ M @ L:

--- Quote from: Don Rizzle on March 29, 2007, 05:29:56 AM ---The Saudi monarch insisted said the "real blame" for Arab woes lay with squabbling Arab rulers, who could only prevent "foreign powers from drawing the region's future" if they united.

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LOL... this tool should be the last to talk... but anyways, this certainly is a step in the right direction for the Middle East unless of course they're just talking out of their asses again and aren't really gonna do anything... or if we see Western measures trying to prevent any such unity (which has always been the case). Regardless, like Kassem said, these leaders are finally realizing how strong their populations' sentiments are in regards to these issues, but are probably gonna continue their Western dicksuckery in the future... one other factor is of course Iran. Iran is becoming a more dominant role player in the region, and Saudi Arabia can't have that... many Arabs are starting to look at Iran as fighting on the same side as them (their support for Hezbollah against Israel, their support for Palestine, etc), while these other dicksucking countries are laying back.

As for the Israel/Palestine resolution... everyone will now see if Israel really does want peace... they're not even being asked for much... get the fuck out of the illegally occupied territories so the Palestinians can have their own independent state.  The refugee problem will complicate things though.

J @ M @ L:
JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert hailed a new peace initiative from Arab states as representing a "revolutionary change" but repeated Israel's opposition to any return of Palestinian refugees in a series of newspaper interviews published Friday.

Olmert told the Haaretz daily that the peace plan announced at the Arab League summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, this week showed that many Arab states realized they "may have been wrong to think that Israel is the world's greatest problem." This, Olmert said, marked a "revolutionary change in outlook."

The Arab plan, spearheaded by Saudi Arabia, calls for full recognition of Israel by the Arab world in return for an Israeli withdrawal to the 1967 borders and a "just solution" for Palestinian refugees who lost their homes inside Israel in 1948 and 1949.

Israel rejects a full withdrawal, hoping to hang on to several settlement blocs in the
West Bank. It has also ruled out the possibility of a refugee return, because an influx of refugees and their millions of descendants would mean the end of Israel as a Jewish state.

In another interview published Friday in the English-language daily The Jerusalem Post, Olmert reiterated this opposition, calling a refugee return "out of the question."

"I'll never accept a solution that is based on their return to Israel, any number," Olmert said.

Olmert told the daily Yediot Ahronot that there is "a real chance that within five years Israel will be able to reach an inclusive peace deal with its enemies."

"Things are happening that haven't happened in the past, and they're ripening. We have to know how to take advantage of this opportunity," Olmert told the paper.


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LOL @ Israel claiming to want peace and then wanting to hold on to illegal settlements in a Palestinian state.
This shit is mind-boggling... Israel won't allow Palestinian refugees to return to THEIR OWN HOMES... yet they promote and try to justify Jews storming the West Bank and grabbing whatever land they can. Fucking pieces of shit.

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