Saudis to Bush: Don't Cut Off Palestinians

[DoYouEverWonder]

May 17, 2006

WASHINGTON -- Saudi Arabia has unsuccessfully argued to the Bush administration that shutting off aid to the Palestinian government and isolating its new Hamas leadership will only radicalize a destitute population and set back the cause of peace with Israel.

"We are arguing the point, needless to say, with them strenuously," Prince Saud al-Faisal, Saudi Arabia's longtime foreign minister, told reporters Wednesday. "It is only through inclusion that you may change the position of Hamas."

May 17, 2006, 5:57 PM EDT

WASHINGTON -- Saudi Arabia has unsuccessfully argued to the Bush administration that shutting off aid to the Palestinian government and isolating its new Hamas leadership will only radicalize a destitute population and set back the cause of peace with Israel.

"We are arguing the point, needless to say, with them strenuously," Prince Saud al-Faisal, Saudi Arabia's longtime foreign minister, told reporters Wednesday. "It is only through inclusion that you may change the position of Hamas."

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-us-saudi-hamas,0,4791454.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines


Shouldn't this sort of thing make the freepers' heads explode.

[dionysus]

1. I hate to agree wit the Saudis mostly....

but this does make sense...