More dividends of the Cairo speech

The Saudis are telling Obama to create peace by fiat.

Arab patience is wearing thin in regards to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Saudi King Abdullah bin Abd al-Aziz told US President Barack Obama during their meeting in Riyadh last Wednesday. According to a report in Saudi daily al-Hayat, the Saudi leader urged Obama to become actively involved in the process, to the point of “imposing a solution” on the two sides “if necessary.”

Say, what was that about the Arab world having the same ideals and principles as America? That thing about democracy, and all that?

“America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles — principles of justice and progress; tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.”

Really? The Saudis are interested in justice?

“We want from you a serious participation to solve the Palestinian issue and impose the solution if necessary,” the paper quoted the Saudi monarch as telling Obama.

Please note that when the Saudis say they want to solve “the Palestinian issue,” they’re not necessarily implying imposing a solution on both sides. Just on one. And they can lie with the best of them:

“We Arabs want to devote our time to building people, building a generation that is capable of handling the future through knowledge and action, we have a genuine desire for peace,” Abdullah said.

Yeah, pull the other leg.

Abdullah said that a solution of the conflict would be the “magic key” to all issues in the Middle East.

Okay, stop! You’re making my ribs hurt!

That “magic key” will fix:

• The dismal human rights issues in Middle East countries
• The religious wars between Sunni and Shia (and Muslims and non-Muslims)
• The lack of suffrage
• The raping and murdering of women who are deemed un-Islamic
• The lack of education of girls in many Middle East nations
• The lack of democracy in most Middle East nations
• The war in Sudan
• Terrorism and the spread of Islamism throughout the Middle East

Yep. A Palestinian state will solve all of the above. In Saudi Arabia LaLa Land. That’s probably the one that insists that Mohammed flew to Jerusalem on a winged horse (thus causing many of the current problems preventing peace in the region).

What I’d really like to know is: Do the Saudis truly intend to give up an Islamic waqf? Because I think not. I think their version of peace includes Jews unable to set foot on the Temple Mount, or near the Western Wall, once again.