The Motive Behind Saudi’s Change Of Course
Recently , Saudi King Abdullah called the war in Iraq an “illegitimate foreign occupation”, and was referring to what is generally perceived in the Arab world as a failed policy adopted by the Bush administration regarding the Middle East. Asked if the Saudi king’s statement criticizing Washington should be regarded as a wake-up call by the United States, a Saudi security expert said, “The United States needs more than a wake-up call.”
That’s an open threat.
This is a dramatic change of position toward the US from the Saudis. Also recently, the Saudi king met with Iran president Ahmadinejad and warned him to take seriously threats of US military strikes over Iran’s refusal to halts its uranium enrichment programme and told him that the arabs needs to stop fighting among themselves and stand together.
Also, Syria, which has been on the outs with most arab muslim countries, is now back in without any change in its policies, a clear indication, which their ambassodor has affirmed that general arab-world policy has swung around to that of Syria. Syrian policy is to dominate Lebanon, kill all the non-muslims and destroy Israel.
Meanwhile, the Saudis have revived their old peace initiative with Israel that calls for a full return to their pre-1967 war borders, withdrawal from Jerusalem, and the right of return of arab Palestine refugees to their old homes. The arabs say none of this is negotiable and the Israelis say none is fully acceptable.
The Israelis would withdraw from some Palestinian areas and allow them to have a state in return for true and guaranteed peace. The “right of return” means that virtually all Israelis would have to give up their homes to muslims claiming to be former refugees or their descendants, and it would literally be the end of Israel.
So we see that the goal of wiping Israel off the map is unchanged. The Saudis, who have for a long time stayed out this anti-Israel effort because of their very lucrative arrangement with the United States, are now taking part in it. Additionally they are trying to unify other arab muslims nations into a sort of Islamic European Union.
The Saudis are afraid of Iran and should be as Iran intends to dominate all the Middle East. If the Saudis can persuade Iran to come into the fold instead of trying to dominate it, the rest of the Middle Eastern muslim nations will follow suit. So we may soon see indications of power sharing between these two as a trade-off, if the Saudis are successful in convincing the Iranians.
Just as Saudi Arabia was the initiator of OPEC, the oil cartel that ended the competition between arab oil producing states and brought on the much higher prices and repeated “oil shortages” with long lines at the pumps that we’ve been put through, they are now attempting to unify all the Mid-East. To do this means they must have a consensus of opinion that supercedes sectarianism, which for arabs means they must have common non-muslim enemies. Namely, Israel and the United States.
The Saudis see the writing on the wall. They’ve always had contempt for the West and the Royal Saudi government has always been under pressure to conform to strict muslim law. Dealing with the US has never been popular with the Fundamentalists and has always been a danger to the Royal House. India, China, Europe and the Orient can and will buy all the oil the Mid-East can produce, so they no longer need to keep up the farce with the United States. As for our protection policy with them against their being attacked by other nations, if they can unify the area, they won’t need that any longer either. That’s the plan.
Mid-East oil is going to be withheld from the US. Production problems and policy disagreements will be cited. They will demand we do certain things, submit in certain ways, to get any oil at all. Just as England is now submitting to Iran instead of fighting for the hostages. The British see the writing on the wall too and choose not to fight. If they go to war with Iran, there goes their oil imports.
With the switching of sides of the Saudis, the gauntlet has been thrown. For their plan to have a chance to work, the Iranians have to come to agreement, and that’s the soft underbelly as Iran is divided by seriously differing political factions. Ahmadinejads crowd wants to bring about their religious fantasy of the “return of the third imam” through war while the secular faction wants a return to a secular Iran. The religious zealots do hold the majority power, the question mostly is whether they’ll share with the House of Saud or not, which is a hurdle as Iran is Shiite and the Saudis are Sunni. I think they will, temporarily, until they feel ready to gobble up Saudi Arabia.
Drastic changes in Mid-East alignments and policies affecting the rest of us are ahead, there’s no doubt. I personally have doubts about the success of the Saudi plan, however. The arab muslims are historically fractious. With the Iraq and Afghan wars, the West has been treated first-hand to a clear view of the arab muslims inability to make and keep peaceful agreements. Even OPEC has been constantly shaken by infighting.
One thing’s for sure, it’s going to be an awful bloody mess over there and the environmental damage is likely to be enormous before the dust all settles. This is going to change the world forever.
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This is my last post until around April 14, as I’m off in the morning on another 10-day junket to continue building on my cabin. See you then.
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:03 am
I’ve been gone to Nashville all day and had no time for blog visiting. I envy you, going to the cabin for another week. Enjoy. I would love to close up Right Truth for a week or two and not have to think of something to post on.
Seems everybody is threatening the US/West, but the left blames it all on us. I’m sick of this pandering and bowing down. I heard about a school that isn’t teaching about the Holocaust any more or the crusades because it is offensive to Muslims. What’s next? I’m sick of it.
Have a good evening and have a wonderful time at the cabin. Take some pictures.
April 3rd, 2007 at 2:19 am
Thanks, Debbie. I’ll post a pic or two of the progress when I get back. The rain just keeps on keeping on here in Washington so it will be nice to get some of that No. Californian sunshine for awhile, again.
I guess you’ve been getting some rough weather out your way. Stay safe.
April 3rd, 2007 at 3:17 am
Its more than one school i think.
Rastaman, that was an interesting post. It reminds me of something i put on my blog ages ago, it was a quote by George Galloway, a charismatic far left mp, who is the MP for the “respect” party, a party devoted to muslims. He said;
Here’s my post;
A well known left wing extremist speaks out.
As a kind of balance to what Churchill said, and i quoted below, here is a recent speech our left of the mark freind George galloway made to a group of arabs;
“What your lives would be if from the Atlantic to the Gulf we had one Arab union — all this land, 300 million people, all this oil and gas and water, occupied by a people who speak the same language, follow the same religions, listen to the same Umm Kulthum. The Arabs would be a superpower in the world if they had this unity, instead of the shameful situation in which the Arabs find themselves today. Hundreds of thousands are ready to fight them (the Americans) in the Middle East, and in Latin America there is revolution everywhere. Fidel Castro is feeling young again. Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile are all electing left-wing governments which are challenging American domination. And in Venezuela, the hero Hugo Chavez has stood against them over and over and over again. So I say to you, citizens of the last Arab country, this is a time for courage, for unity, for wisdom, for determination, to face these enemies with the dignity your president has shown, and I believe, God willing, we will prevail and triumph, wa-salamu aleikum (peace be upon you all).”
George galloway, taken from Here.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/770/re104.htm
Now, is it just me, or is that self designated champion of equality and sole MP for the “repect” party, treating arabs differently than Europeans…. nah….. surely not. Guess im just being a crazed right wing extremist, who’s mouth is no doubt frothing at the keyboard. And ive got a skin head underneath all this hair… and you know, BNP nasty person, and stuff. Just use your imagination, and see how you can justify it (if your not a lefty person reading it, you dont need to try, im just trying to help them out)
Scuse me guys, id love to stay and chat, but ive got a baby to boil and a dog to kick, And ive only been going out with the dog for a couple of days, so i dont want to be late…
April 3rd, 2007 at 10:53 am
Probably the worst part of it is that the current Iranian government is very much of the old revolutionary wing that believes in exporting their brand of irrational barbarism to the rest of the world.
Something they have in common with the Saudis. They claim to be our allies but both in Europe and in the US they fund Mosques and Islamic centres that promote a fundamentalist and repulsive form of Islam. Beats me why we are stupid enough (or why our leaders are) to let them do it.
Saudis and the current Iranian share is their belief part is that
April 3rd, 2007 at 10:56 am
PS Ignore last half sentence
PPS Galloway is charismatic?
April 3rd, 2007 at 5:50 pm
seeya when you get back…….is your cabin by a river or stream? if so I need to fish it
April 5th, 2007 at 10:10 am
He is, yes. He makes great speeches, he is a natural born orator.
April 6th, 2007 at 8:16 pm
…and today is MY BIRTHDAY! Now, I’m 34…
HAPPY EASTER and Happy Pesach for everybody you, brothers !!!
FELIZ PÃSCOA !!!
April 7th, 2007 at 8:43 pm
All I can say right now to that is what a bunch of barbarians these so called people are over there. They seem to hate everyone and everything on this earth. I’m sick of their garbage in the MSM every day.
April 8th, 2007 at 10:35 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGKrWxXEpkk
See that video of George Galloway on sky news. I don’t agree with his world view, but look at his ability to make his case in a hostile environment. A natural born orator.
And here he is in parliament; im so sad that i saw this live!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWR0tavb-zo
We are polar opposites i just wish we had an orator or two with his skills. And despite our disagreements, he separates his points very well, allowing me to agree with many of his individual points.
April 8th, 2007 at 11:30 pm
Hey Rasty, you’ve got a fatwa on you.
And so do i!
http://radicalmuslim.blogsome.com/
Scroll down the links to the bottom
April 9th, 2007 at 5:56 am
CONTRADICTIONS OF THE KORAN
The text of the Koran is so contradictory, rough and bad-written, any reader can identify countless abundant, internal contradictions in the sacred book of the illiterate and ignorant barbarians. The site The Religion of Peace examined each one of those incongruous discrepancies. The contradictions are more than one hundred. That for stayed only in the internal contradictions, where certain stretches affirm exactly the opposite of others .
A amateur, pig work, that alone reinforce the suspicions about its real authorship. Everything indicates Mohammed ordered several persons to write the book verses, but as the organizer did not know to read, the different approaches stayed uncompatible like a literary Frankenstein. Doubtless, it is the already written most monstrous book. In the form and in the content:
1. Can Allah be seen and did Muhammad see his Lord? Yes [Suras 53:1-18, 81:15-29], No [6:102-103, 42:51].
2. What was man created from? A blood clot [96:1-2], water [21:30, 24:45, 25:54], “sounding” (i.e. burned) clay [15:26], dust [3:59, 30:20, 35:11], nothing [19:67] ( and this is then denied in 52:35) earth [11:61], a drop of thickened fluid [16:4, 75:37]
3. How many angels were talking to Mary? When the Qur’an speaks about the announciation of the birth of Jesus to the virgin Mary, Sura 3:42,45 speaks about (several) angels while it is only one in Sura 19:17-21.
4. How many days did Allah need to destroy the people of Aad? One day [54:19] or several days [41:16; 69:6,7]
5. Heavens or Earth? Which was created first? First earth and then heaven [2:29], heaven and after that earth [79:27-30].
6. To Intercede or Not To Intercede? – That is the Question! The Qur’an makes contradictory statements whether on the Day of Judgment intercession will be possible. No: [2:122-123, 254; 6:51; 82:18-19; etc.]. Yes: [20:109; 34:23; 43:86; 53:26; etc.]. Each position can be further supported by a hadith.
7. Where is Allah and his throne? Allah is nearer than the jugular vein [50:16], but he is also on the throne [57:4] which is upon the water [11:7], and at the same time so far away, that it takes between 1,000 and 50,000 years to reach him [32:5, 70:4].
8. The origin of calamity? Is the evil in our life from Satan [38:41], Ourselves [4:79], or Allah [4:78]?
9. Does Allah command to do evil? No [7:28, 16:90]. Yes [17:16, ]. Two examples are also given, where Allah clearly commanded or permitted indecent actions [2:229-230, 2:187].
10. Do not say, “Three”!? It is impossible to recite Sura 4:171 without transgressing the command contained in it.
The infinite loop problem Sura 26:192,195,196: “It (the Qur’an) is indeed a revelation from the Lord of the Worlds, … in clear Arabic speech and indeed IT (the Qur’an) is in the writings of the earlier (prophets).” Now, the ‘earlier writings’ are the Torah and the Injil for example, written in Hebrew and Greek.
HOW can an ARABIC Qur’an be contained in books of other languages? Furthermore, it would have to contain this very passage of the Qur’an since the Qur’an is properly contained in them. Hence these earlier writings have to be contained in yet other earlier writings and we are in an infinite loop, which is absurd.
etc etc etc…
http://www.answering-islam.org/Quran/Contra/#internal
June 14th, 2007 at 9:11 am
This one makes sense “One’s first step in wisdom is to question everything – and one’s last is to come to terms with everything.”