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2022-07-24 Arabia

What the Saudis think about when they think about peace with Israel

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Posted by trailing wife 2022-07-24 04:11|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
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#1 normalization can’t happen until there’s a Paleostinian state

I don't think Israel's worried about its moslems not being able to hajj. At least they shouldn't be. And neither are saudis. The Saudis can't do anything by themselves. They just need friends, to stay afloat in the churn that is the moslem world. How much anti-establishment Sunni wahhabi nonsense is stopped daily because of Israeli surveillance software and friendly inputs? I think the paleostine routine is just for the bearded, crazy eyed moslem tool who would challenge the establishment otherwise.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-07-24 09:26|| 2022-07-24 09:26|| Front Page Top

Case study here? Someone should write a white paper on cultural incompatibility.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-07-24 09:42|| 2022-07-24 09:42|| Front Page Top

#3 ^ Are they even allowed to call it a white paper anymore?

Posted by Dron66046 2022-07-24 10:22|| 2022-07-24 10:22|| Front Page Top

Why does the world insist on "two states" made out of Israel and "one state" made from Taiwan and Mainland Taiwan?

Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-07-24 11:24|| 2022-07-24 11:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Mainland China has nukes and knows how to flimflam barbarians.

Posted by magpie 2022-07-24 11:49|| 2022-07-24 11:49|| Front Page Top

#6 I don't think Israel's worried about its moslems not being able to hajj.

If I understand correctly, they can — they just need to fly in from Jordan or Egypt with the contingents from those countries.

Lots of things have been happening without fanfare for the past decade at least. But Israel is getting awfully tired of being snuck in through the servants entrance, when countries like Morocco celebrate reestablished formal contact.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-07-24 11:57|| 2022-07-24 11:57|| Front Page Top

#7 Ref # 5 above

With regards to Rudyard Kipling and the later British Empire:

"And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear: A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East."

Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-07-24 12:31|| 2022-07-24 12:31|| Front Page Top

#8 Everybody talks about Sun Tzu (or Sun Pin) but the Chinese Mandarins were writing scrolls on "managing barbarians" thousands of years ago and passing theses insights on... Besides with a large fractious population the Chinese had plenty of practice on each other.

Posted by magpie 2022-07-24 18:15|| 2022-07-24 18:15|| Front Page Top

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