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| Prince Nawaf likes the Soddy plan better... |
| 2002-06-29 |
| The United States has taken a "step back" from its support of a Saudi plan to achieve Mideast peace by launching its own blueprint to end the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, a top Saudi official said. Saudi intelligence chief Prince Nawaf also said President George W. Bush's call for a change in the Palestinian leadership was "illegitimate." It's legitimate to run a mob? "Do the Americans accept to be told who they should elect and who should be their president?" Nawaf told the London-based Asharq al-Awsat newspaper in comments published on Saturday. The Saudi official, who is the brother of King Fahd, questioned why Bush floated a plan to break the Mideast logjam after earlier supporting a Saudi peace proposal, which won wide Arab endorsement. "I wonder why the U.S. wants to take such a long shot when we have a ready-made initiative that has all the elements of success," Nawaf reportedly said. There's actually nothing in the Bush speech to prevent the Soddy plan from being implemented. Bush addressed the path to get there, not the destination. That path doesn't include Yasser, doesn't include the thugs, doesn't include the boomers. 'Course, from a certain point of view, one could ask, "What's Paleostine without them?" |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |