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>>>Note that Black Gold W was in South Dakota in the last day or so getting the
farmers pumped up about ethanol. Now this is in Daschle's state (and by the way,
they had some little politics going on in that the SD Senator had to make his own
travel arrangements to get to the same rally due to some communication problems
(yeah, right!)) stumping for Daschle's opponent. A<>E<>R <<<
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Copyright � 2001 The International Herald Tribune | www.iht.com
Saudi prince to tell Bush of Arab ire
Howard Schneider The Washington Post
Thursday, April 25, 2002
CAIRO Crown Prince Abdullah ibn Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia was preparing for his
first meeting with President George W. Bush, bearing a swell of Arab indignation
over the fate of the Palestinians and growing worries among the United States' Arab
allies that their friendship with Washington was becoming a liability at home.
The prince was to meet with Bush on Thursday at the president's Texas ranch.
Disturbed by the continuing loss of life in the West Bank and the Israeli siege of
Yasser Arafat's compound in Ramallah, Prince Abdullah, his advisers and like-
minded Arab leaders have warned with increasing urgency over the past month that
the situation is more than a matter of right and wrong.
The Bush administration's identification with Israel, they say, has become so
thorough in Arab eyes that the stability of friendly governments is in question, with
U.S. allies struggling to justify their stands and radical groups and governments
contending that confrontation is inevitable because of the American- Israeli alliance.
Only a month ago in Beirut, Prince Abdullah received what he regarded as a promise
from the Bush administration to lay the groundwork for political discussions over a
peace offer that Abdullah had originated and personally lobbied for with skeptical
leaders like President Bashar Assad of Syria.
The proposal - a commitment by Arab governments to build normal relations with
Israel in return for a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip - was swiftly
overtaken by the offensive against West Bank cities and refugee camps started
March 29 by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel.
As a result, while Bush calls on Arab states to show "real leadership" by cracking
down on terrorist attacks and pressuring Arafat to do the same, Prince Abdullah is
expected to counter that the United States must prove its good intentions by cracking
down on Israel. Failure to do so, Prince Abdullah's advisers and other Arab officials
contend, will speed what they see as a decline in U.S. prestige and credibility in the
Gulf and throughout the Arab world.
Prince Abdullah's message, said Adel Jubeir, the prince's foreign policy adviser, on
NBC television Sunday, "will be that America must be engaged, America must
restrain Sharon, America must put the peace process back in its proper track,
because American interests and American credibility and the credibility and interest
of America's friends and allies in the region are suffering tremendously as a
consequence."
According to the Saudis, the perception of the United States as unwilling or unable to
control Israel is largely responsible for a new tide of extremist statements coming
from Islamic clerics whose voices were largely quieted after the Sept. 11 attacks in
the United States. While Prince Abdullah has told Saudi clerics there is no room for
extremism in a modern Islamic state, Israeli attacks in the West Bank have fed the
region's most vivid fears about Jewish-Muslim conflict.
"We consider the United States and its current administration a first-class sponsor of
international terrorism, and it along with Israel form an axis of terrorism and evil in
the world," a group of 126 Saudi scholars and writers said in a letter released this
week.
Such sentiments are likely to occupy a prominent place in Prince Abdullah's
discussions with Bush.
Copyright � 2001 The International Herald Tribune
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