Obama meets King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
Read the below letter appearing in the New York Times written by a guy named Turki al-Faisal, former Saudi ambassador to the US and a Saudi intelligence chief.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/12/opinion/veto-a-state-lose-an-ally.html?_r=1
Here is what I would say to this guy:
I have news for this Turki. The US has only one friend in the Middle East, and it isn't Saudi Arabia. This is the country that bankrolls terrorists and all their supporters in radical mosques and American academia.
First of all, isn't this supposed to be something the Palestinians should be negotiating with Israel? Who needs to negotiate when the UN is ready to vote you the land? This year, they can vote the West Bank and Gaza to Palestine and next year they can vote the rest of Israel to Palestine
"From the river to the sea" as the drones on US streets and campuses like to chant.
This is a classic example of why we need to develop our own sources of oil so as not to be dependent on countries like Saudi Arabia. Then we can tell these Turkis what to do with their oil. Until that day comes, however, we will have to endure more scenes like this.
PS: I know. I know. Bush sucked up to them too.
I agree about the dependence on Saudi oil or Saudi anything else... but we need to develop our technology so we don't need the oil. All the oil under North America won't replace what we import from the Saudis (who spend the cash we pay them financing Wahabi mosques in countries that never considered such doctrines before). Even powering electric vehicles on electricity generated by burning coal has about one third the carbon footprint per mile of burning Saudi oil.
ReplyDeleteBut the U.S. certainly should support Palestinian statehood. The same UN resolution that partitioned the Former British Mandate of Palestine, giving birth to Israel as a nation, ALSO mandated an Arab state in the rest of the former British mandate. That is long overdue. Too bad Israel didn't take the chance to champion that when it took the land back from illegal occupation by Jordan.
Siarlys,
ReplyDeleteFine. Develop the technology and I will support it. Invent a fuel that is based on water and I will support it. That's long term. Short term is oil, and until we have alternative fuel we have to use oil. The world's economy runs on oil rightfully or wrongfully.
Do you not rememebr that in 1948, the UN came up with the idea of dividing the land between 2 states? Israel said fine, the Arabs said no way and when Israel declared statehood they (Arabs) invaded The Palestinians could have had their state in 1948.
How come nobody is demanding that Jordan give up "Palestinian" land?
Whatever the breakdown of division of land should be negotiated between Israel and the Palestinians.
Certainly I remember. I'm shedding no tears for "the Arabs." The fact remains, a portion of the territory of the Former British Mandate of Palestine should be organized as a state where Arabic-speaking former residents of that territory can be the majority, just as the Jews got to be the majority of their own state. The contours will be different, which is the breaks when you go to war. The original partition would have given the Arabic speaking residents considerably more than they are going to get now.
ReplyDeleteJordan already gave up all the land it seized in 1948. It is called "The West Bank." That is precisely the land that a Palestinian state will be based in. If Jordan were still holding any of it, of course they should give it up, but they don't.
Meantime, as far as technology goes, we don't have sufficient oil reserves to run our economy on. That's why we NEED the Saudi oil. They have us over a barrel, at least part way, and they know it. Why do you think Bush kissed up to them?