A Diplomatic Perfidy
by Emanuel A. Winston, Mid East Analyst & Commentator
March 3, 2002

Let’s start with the non-offer of Saudi Arabia’s Prince Abdullah.
This is a connect-the-dots investigation so let’s begin with the 
second ‘Dot’. Saudi Arabia tells us in a commentary since 
"withdrawn", that the dove and ever available voice of the State 
Department, Tom Friedman, tells the world that the Arab nations 
will recognize Israel IF she accepts the Arafat/Barak plan to 
withdraw to the pre-1967 borders which are really the 1948-9 
armistice lines, including the division of Jerusalem. Their 
spurious pledge of ‘normalization’ floats out of an Arab’s mouth 
as easily as breathing - always supported by the NEW YORK TIMES 
who has been hyping the fiction of peace which has never occurred.

[Note! The first Dot: The planting of this idea seems to have 
first originated in the U.S. State Department, carried to Saudi 
Arabia by Tom Friedman and voiced by the NEW YORK TIMES 
February 6th. Friedman is very creative.] "His article is in the 
form of an "imaginary letter" from President Bush to Arabs heads 
of state urging members of Arab League to offer Isarel full 
recognition and peace in return for Israel’s complete withdrawal 
to 1967 boundaries." 
(1) That withdrawal would be suicidal for Israel, a vital fact 
which is well understood by the Arabs and the State Department.
Friedman followed this with another column February 17th where 
he put words in the mouth of Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah bin 
Abdul Aziz al-Saud that "1. he had these ideas in a speech in 
his desk drawer. 2. He didn’t expect America to blame Saudi 
Arabia for the fact that 15 out of 19 9/11 terrorists were 
Saudis. And 3. The Saudi leader warned America NOT to strike 
Iran or Iraq because it would NOT serve the interests of America,
the region or the world -as there is not clear evidence of a 
present danger." 
(2) This pre-prepared announcement ignores its simultaneous 
denial or cancellation by the Saudi Prince. Suddenly a host of 
"Shrink Israel" advocates appear in the Media, primed to pop up 
to accept the fake or denied Saudi plan. Let us recall that 
Saudi Arabia has, for the past 40+ years, been the main bank for 
anti-Israel terrorists including the 1700 Muslim mosques in 
America that regularly preach anti-American sermons. Not exactly 
a reliable advocate for peace with Israel but a voice echoing
Osama bin Laden’s Wahhabi-style Islam (i.e. radical, extreme
fundamentalist Islam), wherein according to Koranic teachings, 
a temporary peace may be made with the enemy until the Muslims 
are strong enough to attack that enemy with whom you have signed 
a peace treaty. That is considered a ‘Hudna’,similar to the 
agreement Mohammed made with the Jewish Qaraish tribe, called 
the Hudaibiya Treaty wherein he promised peace but returned in 
two years when he was stronger militarily and massacred the 
Qaraish, selling the women and children who weren’t murdered
into slavery. Yassir Arafat, when speaking in Arabic, frequently 
refers to the Hudaibiya Treaty to explain away any short term 
agreement he makes with Israel. An agreement with an Arab, 
therefore, will last only as long as he wishes it to last.

Let’s not forget that Saudi Arabia has participated in most of 
the Arab/Israeli wars and has never agreed to a peace agreement 
with Israel. In keeping with their duplicitous behavior, Crown 
Prince Abdullah floated his non-plan in order to recapture 
American public opinion which was disenchanted by the cruel 
fact that 15 out of 19 of the 9/11 terrorists were Saudis. 
At the same time, the Saudi Ambassador to the U.N. was savagely 
attacking Israel - with the approval of the U.N. delegates - a
replay of the Durban, South Africa conference which was used 
as an Arab/Muslim inspired anti-Semitic pogrom against Israel.

Suddenly, we also find the General who emerged as a closet dove, 
Colin L. Powell, Secretary of the State Department, enthusiastically 
accepting this fake plan as if it were a gold-plated icon, gilded 
with truth.

Moving over to the Israel scene, one finds more dots to connect. 
A small number of reserve Leftist officers signed a letter, 
published in dedicated Leftist Israeli papers, that they will not 
serve in Judea, Samaria (which would include Jerusalem) or Gaza. 
This was cheered by Arafat, the Arabs, Muslims generally and the 
Europeans as a sign that Israel was ripe to cave in on the timely 
plan offered by the Saudis at the behest of the U.S. State 
Department. 

Shortly after that, Ami Ayalon, former head of the Shin Bet (Israel’s
Secret Service) who had been appointed by a Leftist government 
says: "I’m surprised that more soldiers did not disobey ‘illegal’ 
orders". This is a Big Dot since Ayalon was positioned to subvert 
both his staff and his investigative officers for years, tilting 
them over to the Leftist cause of the Labor and Meretz Parties. 

On further examination of this letter of rebellion, there is every
indication that the soldiers did not act spontaneously but rather, 
at the instigation of Labor/Meretz Leftists both in and out of 
government. This act is usually called sedition. After this letter 
of revolt appeared, the accommodating Leftist media featured Yossi 
Sarid, a radical Leftist dressed in a suit and tie, passing out 
bumper stickers demanding withdrawal from the territories. Behind 
him, with well prepared signs, are other Leftists carrying signs 
echoing a similar theme. These events add up all neat and tidy as 
a clearly well planned and coordinated campaign to resurrect the 
dishonored and moribund Oslo Accords. Of course, this includes 
the forced transfer of Jews in Judea, Samaria, Gaza, Jerusalem
and the Golan Heights whose homes and industries will be turned 
over, intact, to an influx of Arabs in order to create another 
state of Palestine.

Add a Dot.

Meanwhile, we find Yossi Beilin being welcomed by the higher 
ranks in the European Union joining together, demanding that 
Arafat be released from house arrest to do as he will, with 
Beilin asking the E.U. nations to press Prime Minister Ariel 
(Arik) Sharon’s withdrawal from the heartland territories of 
Israel and to establish a Palestinian Sate. (Recent reports
expose that Beilin has been receiving 400,000 or more Shekels
(approximately $100,000 American dollars) as a kind of honorarium 
from the E.U. to support his Leftist activities. The European 
Union countries, well-known for their hostility to Israel and 
the E.U.’s genuflecting to Arab oil, then blesses Abdullah’s 
non-proposal. One can be sure this cup of friendship contains 
hemlock, a poisoned brew.

Add another Dot.

At the same time Foreign Minister Shimon Peres is similarly 
courting President Jacques Chirac of France to pressure Israel - 
which Chirac does in a public announcement - generating a wave 
of anti-Semitism in France conducted by young Muslim thugs. 

Add another Dot.

Some may recall a similar activity at the beginning of the first 
Arafat set-up ‘intifada’ in December of 1987, when then Defense 
Minister Yitzhak Rabin was in Washington requesting President 
Bush, Sr. to pressure Israel while then Foreign Minister Shimon 
Peres was visiting President Francois Mitterrand of France and 
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of England to force Israel into 
an International Peace Conference where Israel would be alone 
against all the other nations who would push Israel to give up
everything in Israel’s heartland.

Suspiciously, both Rabin and Peres refused to return back home to 
put down the growing ‘intifada’ (insurrection) for at least two 
weeks. Why was that? 

That’s not merely a Dot but a vast Black Hole of treachery.

With the Abdullah plan offered and withdrawn in the same breath 
through the Tom Friedman NYT’s conduit, all of the Leftist players 
have jumped aboard a fiction made real by the simple proclamation 
that it’s real. All of this fakery being touted now has a life of 
its own. However, knowing Israel cannot safely withdraw to the 
pre-1967 lines, the Saudis are responding to Arik Sharon’s offer 
to discuss Abdullah’s plan by saying "there is nothing more to 
discuss".

Can Saudi Arabia pledge that Arafat will cease arming himself and
launching attacks from a new ‘state of Palestine’, once it is 
pressed up against Isarel’s weakened, vulnerable borders? 
Will America trust a country that spawned 15 of the 19 terrorists 
of 9/11 as well as Osama bin Laden? Is this to be another frosty 
Camp David Accord as with Egypt, where the peace is not only 
frozen cold but where the Egyptians have built a colossal army 
with more than $48 Billion free American taxpayers’ dollars
but is yet pledged to war against Israel? The Camp David Accords 
also pledged normalization - which never happened. For the Arabs 
and Muslims, the word "normalization" is a throw-away word meant 
to massage the West but never to be implemented. Hosni Mubarak 
arrived in Washington March 2nd to resurrect his false role as 
‘Peace Broker’ and ask for more money and weapons to continue 
his stockpiling of weapons for war against Israel. 

Will Arik Sharon accept an old-fashioned straight razor handed 
to him with the blade exposed ready for cutting? I wonder if Arik 
noticed the prayers and speeches at the recent Haj ceremonies in 
Mecca, Saudi Arabia where Israel and the Jews were cursed again 
and again?

Regrettably, Sharon entered into office with such expressions as 
"I am ready to make painful concessions." Only lately we learn 
what he meant is that he accepts another Palestinian State. 
We were surprised when Gen. Colin Powell turned out to be a 
dedicated closet dove. Arik has always proven himself an 
outstanding General in war but now he comes out of the closet 
as a fellow traveler of the Peres Osloids thought process and,
therefore, an aging closet dove. Should we be surprised and 
shocked?

Arafat sees himself once again rescued by all those who do not 
mean well for Israel. Some are clearly malevolent and some are 
merely shy of a few important brain cells but all are ready to 
risk Israel’s existence on the non-pledge of a radical Muslim 
regime and a Prince who has no use for either the Jews or 
American Christians. Clearly, this is also the 
nose-of-the-camel-in-the-tent syndrome. Arafat, the E.U. and the 
U.N. want international monitors, euphemistically called 
"peace-keepers", put into the region so they may play the same 
accommodating role for the operative terrorists as they played 
in Lebanon.

Is this to be another misleading Arafat pledge like his false 
promise to eliminate the words of calling for the elimination of 
the Jewish State of Israel in the Palestinian National Covenant 
and his practice of terror which was never voted on by the Arab 
Council and, therefore, never executed? The straight razor being 
handed to Israel is not to shave but to accomplish the repeated 
executions of Jews like Daniel Pearl. Recall Pearl’s last words: 
"I am a Jew. My mother is a Jew." - followed by a slashing of 
his throat, multiple stabbings, mutilation and beheading - the
Muslim M.O. (Modus Operandi) towards Jews they have captured.

Those who refuse to connect the dots will cause a catastrophe for 
Israel, because they fear that calling this a conspiracy may 
lower their credibility and prestige. They are dangerous fools of 
the first order. The simple fact that everything that has gone on 
in this world, good or bad, is the result of men sitting down to 
plan their next aggressive move against opponents (and thus is a 
conspiracy). In retrospect, all the grim happenings called 
history are actually conspiracies hatched for numerous reasons, 
especially political gains, money and power. History buffs accept 
the realities of conspiracy because it can be called history and 
is therefore ‘acceptable’. When it comes to looking forward to
the future - such as the Palestinian Covenant being implemented 
to destroy Israel and the Jewish people, they cannot bring 
themselves to call it a conspiracy for fear of being labeled a 
dooms-day sayer or some other deprecating appellation. I can 
assure you that the present Diplomatic Frenzy to force Israel 
back to its pre-1967 armistice lines is, indeed, a conspiracy 
of many inter-linked vested interests.

The latest ploy attributed to Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah is so
transparent that even those gripped with the fever of the mirage 
of peace with a religious and savage Islam must at least be 
suspicious of this diplomatic frenzy. I wonder if those like 
Peres, Beilin and Sarid or those fellow travelers in the 
international community will consider committing ritual Hari 
Kari (suicide) if their plans have led to the unnecessary
deaths of thousands of Jews. I think not - but hope they would. 
The anti-Israel Media has flung itself upon the lie of Abdullah, 
Tom Friedman and Colin Powell like a blue fly on a pile of 
garbage. Watch the Diplomatic Conspiracy unfold. Add to that the 
U.N., E.U., U.S. State Department and the entire phalanx of 
Jewish Leftists. 

If ever there was both an operational, well-planned conspiracy, 
plus a ‘de facto’ conspiracy, i.e. those who climbed aboard just 
for their hate of the Jews and their State, this is it.

March 27th the Arab nations will be meeting to discuss many 
things important to Arabs and Muslims - such as the current low 
oil prices and the effect this has on their purchasing power for 
more weapons. Multi-national oil interests, in concert with the 
weapons’ industry, will be involved, trying to get the price of 
crude raised so their profits will increase and weapons’ orders 
by Arab/Muslim countries will once again be issued in quantity.

The diplomats of the E.U., U.N., and the U.S. State Department 
are all working with Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt, Iran, Libya and, 
yes - even Iraq to urge them to issue a vaguely worded 
proclamation that, IF Israel puts her head on the block and 
withdraws to a size leading toward progressive oblivion, they 
will ‘recognize’ the Jewish State. 

These diplomats, along with their Arab counter-parts, know too 
well that whatever is promised by way of recognition - as in the 
word "Peace" or "Normalization" - will be summarily ignored by 
the Arab nations and radical Islamists. I am sure that one day 
this conspiracy to trap and bind Israel will become known as 
the "Perfect Storm of Diplomatic Frenzy and Perfidy".

The only remaining question is: Will Israel, under dovish 
leadership, offer her neck to their straight razor?

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1. "Dear Arab League" by Tom Friedman NEW YORK TIMES 
February 6, 2002

2, "An Intriguing Signal From the Saudi Crown Prince" by 
Tom Friedman NEW YORK TIMES February 17, 2002