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2005-02-28 Europe

Gerhard Schröder called on Saudi business leaders to invest more in Germany.

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Posted by TMH 2005-02-28 9:19:47 AM|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "The German-Saudi Friendship treaty was signed in Cairo in 1929 and ratified in 1930. It paved the way for diplomatic and consular ties between the two countries, which first exchanged ambassadors in the late 1930s."
How macabre: a Saudi "friendship treaty" with the Nazis -- they had the desire for extermination of the Jews in common.

Posted by Tom 2005-02-28 10:36:56 AM|| 2005-02-28 10:36:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Your comment sent literal shivers down my spine, Tom. Let's don't forget, though, both countries share a similar opinion on the existence of Israel now.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-02-28 10:54:29 AM|| 2005-02-28 10:54:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Well, future non-existence really, but the Germans haven't consciously thought through how that would happen and what would be the outcome, and the Saudis have.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-02-28 10:57:21 AM|| 2005-02-28 10:57:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Tom...oooh..ouch.

Posted by 2b 2005-02-28 11:06:18 AM|| 2005-02-28 11:06:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Hindenburg was president of the Weimar Republic until 1934. Hindenburg appointed Hitler as chancellor in 1933 because he could not form a government without the Nazis, the largest party in the Reichstag.

Posted by ed 2005-02-28 11:17:49 AM|| 2005-02-28 11:17:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 "The Chancellor canât simply focus on economic relations with Saudi Arabia," Amnestyâs Middle East expert Regina SpÃ¶ttl told the DPA news agency. "The Chancellor should stand up for the abolishment of the death penalty."

Once again, AI shows it's true colors! All the messed up stuff in the Crazy Kingdom, and all they could come up with is the Saudis need to do away with the death penalty? Must be some good weed this FEMALE's smoking! She's female...what about them driving, voting, running for office, eh, AI?

Posted by BA 2005-02-28 11:32:11 AM|| 2005-02-28 11:32:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 The 1930-1945 period is a facinating time in Middle Eastern history:

1932 -- "In 1932, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was formed by Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud, the first modern Muslim state, as Max Rodenbeck put it, that was the product of a jihad."

1935 -- "In November 1935, Syrian Islamic Sheikh Izz al-Din al-Qassam died in a confrontation with British troops in Palestine after he and two followers killed a Jewish policeman. al-Qassam became one of the inspirational forces behind both the Islamic Jihad group and HAMAS during the first Palestinian Intifada ("uprising") in the late 1980's. al-Qassam was a fiery orator who called for the waging of jihad against Zionist, British, and French forces in the Middle East."

1937 -- "The Arab Higher Committee organized anti-Jewish riots in Damascus, Cairo, and Baghdad. The British arrested the leaders, but the Mufti escaped to Europe where he proclaimed his support of Nazi Germany."

1938 -- "Americans, having been awarded a sixty year concession by Saudi Arabia to search for oil, made their first strike."

1941 -- "In Iraq, Rashid Ali, former prime minister, staged a nationalist coup on April 10, 1941 with the backing of the military, then turned to Nazi Germany for support. Thanks to the separate peace treaty the French Vichy government had struck with the Nazis in 1940, Nazi influence had begun to spread throughout the Middle East, mainly via the French Mandate areas of Syria and Lebanon. The emerging Baâath (âResurrectionâ) Party in Syria became attracted to some atavistic Nazi ideas, including anti-Semitism, that fit well with the Baâathists' own fantasies of restoring a glorious Arab and Muslim past."

1945 -- "On February 14, 1945, U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Saudi Arabia's King Abd al-Aziz Ibn Saud met on board the American warship Quincy in the Suez Canal and agreed that the U.S. would protect the kingdom militarily in exchange for Saudi concessions to develop the country's oil resources (meaning a reasonably priced supply of oil for the United States for the foreseeable future)."

Source:
http://www.nmhschool.org/tthornton/mehistorydatabase/later_mandate_period_and_world_w.htm

Posted by Tom 2005-02-28 11:58:55 AM|| 2005-02-28 11:58:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 All the messed up stuff in the Crazy Kingdom, and all they could come up with is the Saudis need to do away with the death penalty?

Maybe Ms. SpÃ¶ttl and the rest of her colleagues actually like the idea of women being treated as chattel, or thieves getting an extremity or two amputated as punishment.

But ze death penalty?? NEIN!!!!

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-02-28 12:29:29 PM|| 2005-02-28 12:29:29 PM|| Front Page Top

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