nothing new under the desert sun
Charles Johnson
Fri Mar 1, 2002 at 9:01 am PST • Views: 164
Bret Stephens at the OpinionJournal shares my belief that the Saudi “peace plan” is nothing new; whenever they need to curry favor with the West they trot this tired old horse out of the stable:
“Our plan recognizes the right of Israel to exist only after acceptance of a Palestinian state, the return to the 1967 borders and an end to the state of belligerency.”
—Prince Abdullah, November 1981
“Saudi Arabia believes the time has come to end the Arab-Israeli conflict and achieve a just and comprehensive solution to the Palestinian question.”
—Prince Saud Faisal, April 1991
“This is exactly the idea I had in mind—full withdrawal from all the occupied territories, in accord with U.N. resolutions, including in Jerusalem, for full normalization of relations.”
—Crown Prince Abdullah, February 2002
Frank says: