Is there a chance that Obama’s attacks on Israel have created an expectation in the Arab world that the US will “deliver” the Jewish State? I mean, I know it’s a crazy suggestion, but even a small chance?
Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah told US President Barack Obama on Monday that Arab states will act on their peace initiative only once Israel “implements and fulfills its obligations.” “I affirmed to President Obama that we are interested in bringing about peace in the Middle East. It is in our interest that peace be brought about,” the emir said through a translator as he met with Obama at the White House.
The visiting leader noted pan-Arab support for the initiative presented by Saudi Arabia in 2002 and stressed: “We will implement this peace initiative when Israel implements and fulfills its obligations.” The Arab peace initiative offers Israel full normalization of ties in return for its withdrawal from occupied Arab land and the creation of a Palestinian state. It also calls for “a just solution to the problem of Palestinian refugees to be agreed upon in accordance with the UN General Assembly Resolution No. 194,” which the Jewish state has repeatedly rejected.
Naturally the AFP writeup doesn’t explain that “the Jewish state has repeatedly rejected” the “just solution” because it would mean opening up Israel’s borders to more than four million “refugees” – refugees goes in scare quotes because the idea of fifth-generation refugees is obviously idiotic – who want to overrun and destroy the Jewish state. Because really, why would that be relevant to understanding the conflict?
References:
* Arab States To Obama: No Seriously, We’re Not Going To Make Even Symbolic Concessions To Israel [MR]
* Abbas: Olmert Offered Us The West Bank And The Right Of Return, But It Wasn’t Good Enough [MR]
* Kuwait emir: Israel must act on peace
Previously:
* Interfaith Conference Derailed By Imam’s Insistence That Allah Used Holocaust To Punish “Serially Disobedient” Jews
* Jordan To Obama: You’re Not Getting Any Symbolic Pro-Israel Gestures From Us Either
* Saudi Arabia To Obama: When We Said Get Bent, We Meant Get Bent
