Posted on 01/20/2008 6:05:24 AM PST by Alouette
Normalize relations with Israel are you daft?That's what the Saudis offered, full normalized relations with the pro-western arab states and Syria. Crazy innit?
Do you honestly believe that an arab country wants Israel to even exists?
check out post 3. :p
The Arabs want us to help them fight the Persians.
And you believe them - why?
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"Throw ya hands in the air, and catch 'em like ya just don't care..."
A comprehensive deal sounds good for now. But, at some time in the future the Iranians will not be a threat, due to some internal event (change in regime) or external (war). At that point, I’d trust the Saudi’s to not being a threat to Israel. But the Syrians would be another story; Hezbollafied Lebanon perhaps too.
And you believe them - why?Because they're scared poopless of Iran and would rather lie by the pool with hookers drinking whisky?
Ok, sorry, you win the prize
Cheap argument, ketsu. That's a cheap way of thinking, too. Thinking that any argument that disagrees with your opinion is therefore "hysterical" (or any other such prejudicial term) is a sure way to stay ignorant.
A comprehensive deal sounds good for now. But, at some time in the future the Iranians will not be a threat, due to some internal event (change in regime) or external (war). At that point, I’d trust the Saudi’s to not being a threat to Israel. But the Syrians would be another story; Hezbollafied Lebanon perhaps too.Without Syria Hizbollah withers on the vine. No access to weapons. Syria has been trying to be a western client for ages(since the Clinton admin), they just want to do it on their terms(i.e. no silly things like democracy that would get rid of Alawi power). Syria is quickly losing influence, they risk becoming a western or Iranian protectorate.
>> “We will start thinking of Israelis as Arab Jews rather than simply as Israelis,” <<
I am sure that the Israelis would just love to be “Arab Jews”, just like they enjoyed being German Jews.
Cheap argument, ketsu. That's a cheap way of thinking, too. Thinking that any argument that disagrees with your opinion is therefore "hysterical" (or any other such prejudicial term) is a sure way to stay ignorant.You didn't make an "argument". You made a paranoid assertion.
You must remember that the Israeli’s and the Arabs value the bargining more than the actual completion of the deal.
In my view, the brgining has formally begun.
The Saudi’s have taken the process lead. Although we don’t really know what has transpired off stage in London Hotel suites.
It’ll take all of the mideast to defeat Iran. They either work together or die.
Iran is a deadly threat to all
Ri-i-i-ight.
amen
Ri-i-i-ight.Do some research to get a historical perspective. I'm just echoing my primary resource(Israeli policy planners). Syria's been reduced to a bit player and they're scrambling desperately to stay relevant and independent.
Can you ever trust a Muslim, though? Isn’t deception one of their virtues?
"His remarks should encourage us Israelis and Arabs to deepen and broaden the discussion of ways to reach a comprehensive peace, implement the Arab peace initiative and reach the kind of cooperation that his highness described."
God was so stupid to give us our own land, HE really didn't know what HE was doing, but your Allah ... now THERE'S a god we can trust.
Non sequitor.
Can you ever trust a Muslim, though? Isn’t deception one of their virtues?I trust them to follow their own self-interest. The sooner they deal with the Palestinian and Iranian problems the sooner they can get back to lives of gilded debauchery.
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