Sunday, September 30, 2007

Another pointless conference...

International Herald Tribune: Saudi Arabia's foreign minister says that Israel should stop work on a security barrier in and along the West Bank and halt settlement activity there as a good-will gesture to assure Arab states that it is serious about comprehensive peace talks.

The minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, stopped short Wednesday of making his demand a condition for Arab attendance at a planned Middle East peace conference in Washington. And he said that in recent days he had become encouraged about the prospects for the conference, which the United States is to sponsor in November. But he would not promise that Saudi Arabia would attend, a major Israeli objective.

So, the Saudis don’t want Israel to improve their security barrier. The Saudis would love for suicide bombers from Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades to have largely unrestricted access to Israeli civilians.

Saud al-Faisal just doesn’t get it. Since the construction of the security barrier, there has been a huge drop in suicide bombings. This barrier has prevented so many deaths, and the Saudis don’t want it there. Any rational person can see why such a barrier is necessary. Israel once had a similar problem to the US-Mexico border issues. Illegal Palestinian workers were coming across the border every day, stealing Israeli jobs in a country that they had no right to enter. In the United States, illegal Mexican workers cross the border, and steal American jobs. The international community has no problem with the US constructing a fence, but has a problem with Israel doing so.

The Washington peace conference, like all those before it, will be pointless. Every peace conference results in more Arab demands for Israel recognise a Palestinian state, while the Arab league refuses to recognise Israel.

Saudi Arabia now wants Israel to deal with Hamas. I tell you what, Israel can deal. Here is the deal: Hamas has a deadline of today to stop firing Qassam rockets or there will be a complete cessation of all Israeli supplied power, water and fuel. Islamic terrorists have fired more than 2000 missiles at Israel since Israel withdrew from Gaza. I just don’t see why Israel should supply power, water and fuel to a group of people who choose terrorists to govern them.

Arab countries have had decades to settle the Palestinian refugees but instead have kept them in camps. Israel took in the hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees kicked out of Arab nations in the late 1940s/early 1950s, so I can’t see why Arab countries are so unwilling to absorb their fellow Arabs. Oh wait, now I remember – the Palestinian refugees cause trouble wherever they go, most recently in Lebanon.

You know what, Prince al-Faisal? Take your demands, and shove them up your ass.

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