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...
_ the GCC kingpin _ is taking the lead in this ongoing political re-engineering. Roles are being swapped. Israel is no more an adversary, while, the Paleostinian leadership is now being viewed in Riyadh and some other Gulf capitals not only as a political liability but also as the spoiling party.
This is a major transformation.
For the first time since its inception, Arab News, the leading Saudi English newspaper, carried last week the report of Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu presenting ’details of the covert Iranian nuclear programme’ as its lead story. And Bibi’s photograph adorned the front page too.
This was history in the making. And the story doesn’t end there.
Earlier, Israel’s Channel 10 News reported that at a meeting with Jewish leaders in New York last month, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
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Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as of 2016....castigated the Paleostinian leadership for rejecting opportunities for peace with Israel for decades, insisting they should either start accepting peace proposals or "shut up".
Citing multiple sources, the Israeli channel quoted what it said were remarks made by the Saudi crown prince at the meeting that left those present there "staggered" by the ferocity of his criticism of the Paleostinians.
"For the past 40 years, the Paleostinian leadership has missed
opportunities again and again, and rejected all the offers it was given," multiple sources present at the meeting quoted Prince Mohammad bin Salman as saying at the meeting.
Last month, while still in the US, the crown prince had clearly stated that the state of Israel has a right to exist. In an interview given to Jeffrey Goldberg, the chief editor of The Atlantic, the prince had underlined that Israelis and Paleostinians have a right to exist in their own land. "I believe that each people, anywhere, has a right to live in their peaceful nation. I believe the Paleostinians and the Israelis have the right to have their own land," the crown prince told the interviewer.