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Arab League Refuses To Drop "Mandatory Israeli Suicide" Demands From Saudi Plan

We're renaming it the "Saudi Suicide Pact". Except it's not really a pact, since only one side has to commit suicide. Remember how the Saudi Foreign Minister talked about dropping the Right of Return from the Saudi Suicide Pact? The idea was to back Israel into a corner by getting it to agree in advance to promise consideration for the plan. Consideration just "in principle" of course - that's how it always works, right:

Israel's enemies say "if we do X, would you do Y"
Israel says, "sure, if you do Y we'd strongly consider X"
Israel's enemies then refuse to do Y, and then scream incoherently about how "Israel already promised to do X"

This has been the pattern of Israeli-Arab negotiations at least as far back as the early 1990s. It's been so overwhelmingly consistent that even ever-naive Israeli negotiators have caught on to the trick. When the Saudi Foreign Minister did his little thought experiment about dropping the Right of Return last week, Israel basically said "first you do it, then we'll talk about concessions".

Turns out that was a smart move on Israel's part, since the Arab League obviously never had any intention of changing their demand for Israel to commit suicide:

In recent weeks Israel had sent signals to the Arab League urging it to change two articles in the initiative viewed in Jerusalem as enshrining the right of Palestinian refugees to return to Israel. Initial reports from the summit indicated that there was no alteration in the original initiative.

How stupid do the Saudis think the Israelis are? This stupid:

Moussa rejected amending the peace offer, saying, "They tell us to amend it, but we tell them to accept it first, then we can sit down at the negotiating table." But he said the Arabs must "do more to convince" the Israelis on the offer.

"Accept that you don't have a right to exist, and then we'll negotiate about whether you have a right to exist". Only Israel's enemies - emboldened by overwhelming international hatred for the Jewish State - would dare to make such an offer to a country that was repeatedly victorious over them on the battlefield.

References:
* Arab League refuses to change plan

Previously:
* Debate On Saudi Peace Plan I - Arab States Still Committed To The Slow Destruction Of Israel
* AQ Complains That Hamas Is Not Insane Enough
* The Saudi Peace Initiative: A Discrete Way to Destroy Israel, Based on an Ethical Lie

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