Saudi Arabia to donate $1 billion to rebuild Gaza - Yahoo! News
As usual…
Israel has to understand that the choice between war and peace will not always stay open and that the Arab peace initiative that is on the table today will not stay on the table," said Abdullah during a speech.
The initiative, which was first proposed by Saudi Arabia in 2002 and relaunched in March 2007, offers Israel collective Arab recognition in exchange for Israeli withdrawal from territory it occupied in the 1967 war, the establishment of a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital and a just solution for the problem of Palestinian refugees.
Uh… No.
First off, the Saudis better than anyone in the world of Islam know that the far mosque was not at Jerusalem on the old Jewish temple mount. That was a claim put together for political and tourism purposes by the rulers of the area centuries ago and not seriously believed by Muslims far off in Arabia until the anti-Jewish and especially anti-Christian purposes of accepting the claim were clearly perceived.
Second, the first claim to Jerusalem goes to the Jews who have returned home after having lived there and their presence being recorded by the Romans and previous conquerors of the area and previous empires and societies of the area in their trade with them.
Third, Jerusalem being handed over to Muslims despite their own pre-20th century writings making clear they didn’t seriously believe the mount to be theirs and thus in the name of a lie to mollify the false passions of people who know it is a lie engaged in just to hurt the Jews and dispossess them is outrageous.
Nope. I say don’t do it, no way no how. Give up the holiest city to Jews in the name of a lie for a temporary false peace and you might as well surrender the rest of Israel which is the entire point of the Arab offer.
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