Incompetent, Surrenderist Olmert Regime Embraces “Saudi Plan” = Recipe for Israel’s Destruction

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Our World: Israel’s Man in Mecca, by Caroline Glick (Jerusalem Post)

“Livni said that the plan ‘is positive in my view.'”

Whatever the cause of their support for the Saudis, that support is but another sign that they are incompetent to lead the country.”

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Then crown-prince, (and current King) Abdullah invited The New York Time’s in-house peace-processor Tom Friedman to Riyadh for dinner. After serving his guest the customary royal meal of freshly slaughtered lamb and sticky rice, Abdullah informed Friedman that if Israel weren’t so insistent on defending its citizens from murder, he would introduce a peace plan he happened to have sitting in his desk already.

That plan was first fully enunciated at the Arab League Summit in Beirut on March 27, 2002. The day was a watershed day. In Netanya, 30 Jews were murdered at the Park Hotel by a jihadist suicide bomber while celebrating the Pessah Seder. The massacre caused the Sharon government to finally launch its limited counter-terror offensive – Operation Defensive Shield – in Judea and Samaria after more than a year of stalling.

On March 27, 2002, two conferences convened in Beirut. In the first conference, terror masters from Hizbullah, al-Qaida, Hamas, Fatah, and Islamic Jihad convened to discuss collaboration and strategy. At the second conference, the leaders of the Arab League agreed to accept the Saudi initiative.

AS PUBLISHED the next day, the Saudi plan includes two stages. In the first stage, Israel divests itself of defensible borders by surrendering the Golan Heights, Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria. It also allows itself to become inundated with millions of hostile foreign-born Arabs who call themselves Palestinian refugees.

The Saudis, like the Palestinians wish for the West to renew its underwriting of the PA in spite of the fact that it no longer makes any bones about being a terror regime.

The easiest way to do that is to pretend that there is a possibility of renewing the “peace process” by putting a deal on the table that Israel will have to reject. With Israel rejecting “peace plans,” the Saudis and their counterparts in the Arab League will say that there is no distinction between peace rejecting Israel and peace rejecting Hamas and therefore the West – and the US in particular – should recognize Hamas and give it lots of money.

So in resubmitting their “peace plan,” the Saudis are simply acting as they have always acted – as Israel’s enemy and as a country dedicated to preventing the US from basing its Middle East policy on a recognition of the basic fact that Arab and Islamic hostility towards the US stems from the same source as Arab and Islamic hostility towards Israel.

WHAT IS new in the current iteration of the Saudi game is Israel’s response. Rather than reject the plan as their predecessors did, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni are embracing it as a basis for negotiations while applauding the Saudis for their “positive” role in the region.

“In Olmert’s case, he apparently has failed to understand that an Iranian nuclear bomb will imperil Saudi Arabia regardless of its impact on Israel.”

In press interviews last week, Livni said that Israel’s only real quibble is that the Saudi plan stipulates that Israel has to allow millions of hostile foreign Arabs to move here. If they would just fix that one little thing, which she refers to as “an absolute red line,” (apparently as opposed to a flexible red line), then we could start getting down to business.

Aside from that, Livni said that the plan “is positive in my view.” As she put it, “The initiative does discuss the 1967 lines, but it would be great if we were in a position where the conflict was a border dispute.”

For his part, not only does Olmert consider the Saudi plan to be a positive development, according to Haaretz, Olmert so values Saudi Arabia that he decided not to reject the Mecca deal for fear that doing so would upset his friends in Riyadh.

Olmert’s aversion to annoying Riyadh reportedly stems from his desire to keep the Saudis on board in opposing Iran’s nuclear weapons program. If this is true, then Olmert is as much of a fool as Livni, who claims to truly believe that the Saudi plan can be the basis for negotiations.

In Olmert’s case, he apparently has failed to understand that an Iranian nuclear bomb will imperil Saudi Arabia regardless of its impact on Israel. The Saudis would have to oppose Iran’s nuclear program even if Israel were to destroy the PA and send its leaders – from Hamas and Fatah alike – packing to Mecca. Israel doesn’t have to pay anything for Saudi support of actions to destroy Iran’s nuclear installations.

So it is possible that Olmert and Livni are supporting the Saudis because they are obtuse. It is equally possible that they are using the Saudi plan as a diversion to shift public attention away from the fact that they led the country to defeat in the war against Iran’s Lebanese proxy last summer and that due to their continued incompetence, Israel currently faces the prospect of a new war starting at any moment.

Whatever the cause of their support for the Saudis, that support is but another sign that they are incompetent to lead the country.