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Saudi Royal Snubs Invite To Jerusalem By Israeli Ex-Intel Boss
2014-05-29
[Jpost] Turki bin Faisal Al Saud calls Yadlin's invite an appeal to emotion that distracts from issue of reaching peace based on 2002 Arab Peace Initiative.
That's the one the New York Times' Thomas Friedman claims he spontaneously suggested at a royal dinner party, so clever that the prince immediately adopted it as his own.
Israel has not accepted the Saudi peace initiative because the Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
 has turned it into a take-it-or-leave-it deal, Israel's former military intelligence chief said.

Amos Yadlin, who headed the Israel Defense Forces' Military Intelligence Directorate for four years until 2010, made the statement during a public talk in Brussels with Turki bin Faisal Al Saud, director of the General Intelligence of Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
 from 1979 to 2001 and the youngest son of the late King Faisal of Saudi Arabia.

The Saudi royal declined Yadlin's invitation to Jerusalem and called it an appeal to emotion that distracted from the issue of reaching peace based on the Saudi initiative, which is also called the Arab Peace Initiative.

"The real problem is that the Saudi initiative became the vaporous Arab League dictate in a summit in Beirut in 2002," Yadlin said. "The Saudis modified it into a take it or leave it offer with parameters we can't accept: Mostly in the issue of returning the Golan to Syrians," Yadlin said, adding that the settling of the Paleostinian refugee problem was also a stumbling block.

Faisal Al Saud disputed Yadlin's assertion and retorted that Israel should accept the proposal in principle, "and then negotiate on the details."
Thus speaks the man who thinks himself a wolf to the man he thinks a helpless lamb. He can't help it, of course -- he was very carefully taught.
The meeting was organized by the German Marshall Fund as follow-up to a public exchange in Munich four months ago between Faisal Al Saud and Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, who is also Israel's chief negotiator with the Paleostinians.

The Saudi asked Livni why Israel did not follow up on the initiative, which Saudi Arabia presented in 2002 and which proposes normalization of ties between Israel and Arab League members in exchange for an Israeli withdrawal from all areas Israel captured in 1967 and a "just solution" to the Paleostinian refugee issue that would be "agreed upon" by the parties. According to Washington Post Associate Editor David Ignatius, who moderated the Munich talks, Yadlin agreed to provide a reply in Brussels.

"There is nothing under the table, no hidden agreement or underhanded move or secret clauses to it, the Arabs will recognize Israel diplomatically, normalize relations and [end] hostilities in return for Israel withdrawing from all lands occupied in '67," he said.
"Come, my friend, come. All you needed do was sit still with your neck bared for the sword. It isn't hard -- millions have done the same over the centuries without significant protest."
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