By Bill Narvey

On the U.S. Department of State website appears an address given May 18th, 2006 by Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice welcoming to America His Royal Highness Prince Saud Al Faisal, the Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia. The headline reads, “Secretary Rice Hosts U.S. - Saudi Strategic Dialogue.”

Reading between the lines of Ms. Rice’s address, one realizes that she avoided mentioning all the facts, circumstances and realities which contradict what Ms. Rice did say and that omission revealed just how badly Ms. Rice and the Bush administration are in denial of realities.

Anyone with just a smattering of the history of Saudi Arabia and its global role will see that the Saudis are far more enemy than friend of America.

Whatever help the Saudis might be giving America to put out the fire of radical Islam, it was the Saudis who helped start and who continue to help to fuel that fire by promoting and spreading their extreme Wahabi version of Islam turning many Muslims to radicalism and some into terrorists. Muslim radicalism with Saudi help has invaded the West and America and that poses a direct and deadly threat to Americans.

It would be smart if Ms. Rice and President Bush in appearing to befriend the Saudis are heeding the expression, “keep your friends close and your enemies closer.” Unfortunately that is not the case as America has done nothing to hold the Saudis accountable for their active contributions to the radicalization of the Muslim world.

As could be expected, Ms. Rice makes a point of echoing President Bush’s words that America is committed to the Road Map to Israeli-Palestinian peace. Prince Saud Al Faisal also includes in his remarks, his support for the Road Map. The Saudi support of peace between Israel and Palestinians however, is on terms that are an anathema to Israel.

The Road Map is moribund and it is so precisely because the Palestinians never shared the Quartet’s vision as to what constituted an independent Palestinian state.

Over the past 15 years the world has learned that Palestinian leaders place no value in honor that comes with keeping their word, shamelessly have stolen the world’s welfare dollars and what they did not steal they used to fund terrorist murders of innocent Israelis, blamed Israel for all failures of their own making and still they have the infinite gall to demand that the world continue to support them in their madness or else they will make the world somehow regret it.

Not only has Abbas like Arafat before him, allowed Palestinian anti-Israel/anti-Semitic culture to remain as it was, he has helped to make it so. It is just a matter of style that distinguishes the PA and Fatah from Hamas. The majority of Palestinians under PA/Fatah governance run first by Arafat and then Abbas are the same Palestinians under Hamas governance, who like their leaders, dream of the destruction of hated Israel and Israelis, which genocidal goal incidentally, is not only in the Hamas Charter, but remains a central objective in the PA/Fatah Charter.

By Western standards of decency, honor and humanity, the leaders and majority of Palestinians who elected them have proven beyond doubt that they have none. Common sense says the Palestinians are neither worthy of the concern and charity the world gives them nor are they capable of creating and maintaining an independent state to exist in peace side by side with Israel.

Given those realities, how Ms. Rice can say otherwise and that the Palestinians deserve our care, consideration and generosity is an all out assault on reason.

Ms. Rice goes on to unequivocally say that Iran must never be allowed to gain nuclear capacity and arm themselves with nuclear weapons. If only her advice on how to do that were equally unequivocal. Prince Saud Al Faisal?s also speaks against Iran having nuclear weapon capacity, but that is in the context of a nuclear free Middle East, meaning Israel must give up its nuclear arms. That is a non-starter.

Ms. Rice affirms America’s intent to keep Iran from going nuclear by employing diplomacy and negotiations with Iran with the assistance of the EU, Russia and the Saudis. Given the obstructionist efforts of these American friends successfully undermining American efforts to impose tough measures to keep Iran from bringing its nuclear aspirations to fruition and harking back as well to the duplicitously treacherous Saudis, conjures up another expression, “with friends like these, who needs enemies?.”

As for the efficacy of diplomacy and negotiations with Iran, those efforts have been a humiliating exercise in futility. America and other Western nations however are afraid to admit that and adjust their policies lest the Arab nations including the Saudis decide to use their oil power and wealth to punish the West as they did with the 1973 oil embargo, the pain of which is still fresh in the West’s mind.

The West’s spineless resistance to Iran has given Iran a green light to pursue its nuclear agenda and only emboldened Iran to tell the world to get stuffed as it ratchets up its anti-Semitic rhetoric, its threats of wiping Israel off the map with a nuclear holocaust and its threats against anyone else that stands in its way of completing its nuclear agenda.

Ms. Rice’s address is expressed in the language of political correctness and diplomacy as she strains to put a very good face on a very bad situation. In so doing she has resorted to the tactic “bullshit baffles brains,” used by those who seek to obfuscate truth.

Just who does Condoleeza Rice think she is fooling?

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Related: United States, Arab/Muslim World

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