Saudi Arabia Rejects Step by Step Approach to Peace

I guess they want, presto chango, there you have it, a Palestinian state.

They've already got a fucking state. It's called Gaza, and look at the hellhole they've turned that into. They elected Hamas. They get what they deserve.

My opinion is, when the Palestinians elected Hamas, they taught us everything we need to know about them. Hamas' Charter calls, unequivocally, for "death to the Jews".

There's no compromise with such a genocidal organization, and Israel can not be reasonably expected to attempt to negotiate with a people who would elect such a government. That's like negotiating with Hitler.

So, fuck Saudi Arabia, and fuck Gaza, and fuck all the other Sharia-believing Muslims who attempt to portray Israel as the bad guys. If you had to choose, which would you rather have, Israel, or Saudi Arabia, where women have no choices, where gays and apostates have their heads cut off in the public square?

From the Washington Post:

Saudi Arabia praised the Obama administration Friday for its "early and robust focus" on the Middle East while rebuffing its efforts to push Riyadh to take confidence-building steps toward Israel.

"Incrementalism and the step-by-step approach has not, and we believe will not, achieve peace," said the visiting Saudi foreign minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at his side. "Temporary security, confidence-building measures will also not bring peace."

Former Senate majority leader George J. Mitchell, President Obama's special envoy for Middle East peace, has traveled almost monthly to the region, seeking to coax the Israelis and Palestinians into peace talks while also encouraging Arab states to offer incentives to Israel to take bold steps, such as a freeze on settlement growth in the Palestinian territories.

Working on what amounts to a three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle, Mitchell has attempted to gather chits from various Arab nations to take partial steps toward normal relations, such as opening air corridors or granting some visas, if Israel at the same time takes steps on settlements. Obama has buttressed that effort by writing private letters to Arab leaders making the case for confidence-building measures.

U.S. officials insist they are making slow but steady progress behind the scenes. But the pressure on Israel to halt settlement expansion has generated a backlash there against the United States, while no Arab states have publicly revealed what they are prepared to do. Meanwhile, the Palestinians have hardened their position, refusing to talk to Jerusalem unless there is a settlement freeze.

Saudi officials have privately been highly critical of the U.S. approach -- even rejecting appeals from Obama when he visited Riyadh -- but Saud's decision to offer such a public critique, in Washington, raises the stakes for the administration. It could also be a form of public posturing designed to blunt the impact of future concessions by Saudi Arabia.

Believe me, they wouldn't normalize relation with Israel even if there was a settlement freeze.