Obama's word to infidels is worth what the Saudis (and the Koran) think it is (not much).

http://tinyurl.com/r72b94
President Obama blames Israel for Palestinian suffering, and offers a dishonorable plan by Chas. Krauthammer
Obama the Humble declares...no more "dictating" to other countries... "forge partnerships as opposed to simply dictating solutions," ... "start by listening, because all too often the United States starts by dictating."...It applies to everyone - Iran, Russia, Cuba, Syria, even Venezuela. Except Israel. Israel is ordered to freeze all settlement activity. As Secretary of State Clinton imperiously explained the diktat: "a stop... not natural-growth exceptions."... No "natural growth" means strangling to death the thriving towns close to the 1949 armistice line, many of them suburbs of Jerusalem, that every negotiation over the past decade has envisioned Israel retaining. It means no increase in population. Which means no babies. Or if you have babies, no housing for them - not even within the existing town boundaries....The obvious objective is to undermine and destroy these towns - even before negotiations. To what end? Over the last decade, the U.S. government has understood that any final peace treaty would involve Israel retaining some of the close-in settlements - and compensating the Palestinians accordingly with land from within Israel itself...envisioned in the Clinton plan in the Camp David negotiations in 2000, and again at Taba in 2001. After all, why turn towns to rubble when, instead, Arabs and Jews can stay in their homes if the 1949 armistice line is shifted slightly...(and reciprocally.)...logical, not only accepted by both Democratic and Republican administrations for the last decade, but was agreed to in writing in the letters of understanding exchanged between Israel and the United States in 2004 - and subsequently overwhelmingly endorsed by a concurrent resolution of Congress. Yet the Obama State Department has repeatedly refused to endorse these agreements or even say it will honor them. This from a President who piously insists that all parties to the conflict honor previous obligations. The entire "natural growth" issue is a concoction. It's farcical to suggest that the peace process is moribund because a teacher in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem is making an addition to her house to accommodate new grandchildren - when Gaza is run by Hamas terrorists dedicated to permanent war with Israel and when Mahmoud Abbas, having turned down every one of Ehud Olmert's peace offers, brazenly declares that he is in a waiting mode - waiting for Hamas to become moderate and for Israel to cave - before he'll do anything to advance peace.... in Cairo yesterday, Obama declared that the Palestinian people's "situation" is "intolerable." Indeed it is, the result of 60 years of Palestinian leadership that gave its people corruption, tyranny, religious intolerance and forced militarization; leadership that for three generations - Haj Amin al-Husseini in 1947, Yasser Arafat in 2000, Abbas in December 2008 - rejected every offer of independence and dignity, choosing destitution and despair rather than accept any settlement not accompanied by the extinction of Israel.
In the 16 years since the Oslo accords turned the West Bank and Gaza over to the Palestinians, their leaders - Fatah and Hamas alike - built no schools, no roads, no courthouses, no hospitals, no institutions that would relieve their people's suffering. Instead they poured everything into an infrastructure of war and terror, all the while depositing billions (from gullible Western donors) into their Swiss bank accounts.
Obama's marching orders from the Keeper of the Two Shrineshttp://tinyurl.com/og96od
Saudi urges Obama to impose Mideast solution
RIYADH (Reuters) - King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has urged U.S. President Barack Obama to impose a solution on the festering Arab-Israeli conflict if necessary, a Saudi newspaper said on Sunday. Saudi Arabia and other Arab states want Obama to get tough with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...defied U.S. calls to halt the expansion of Jewish settlements. King Abdullah told Obama...Arab patience was wearing thin and that a solution of the Arab-Israeli conflict would be the "magic key" to all issues in the region... "We want from you...to solve the Palestinian issue and impose the solution if necessary," the Saudi monarch told Obama,... Saudi Arabia was the driving force behind an Arab peace initiative first put forward by Arab states in 2002 offering Israel recognition in return for withdrawal from Arab land occupied in 1967 and a Palestinian state. Israel has reacted coolly to the offer, renewed in 2007, saying a return of Palestinian refugees to areas now inside Israel would destroy the Jewish character of the state.
...****But that's the objective, isn't it? At last, they have a U.S. President even more pliant than Jimmy Carter so why not try the same story again? (And this time without a statesman like Anwar Sadat--and we know what happened to him!) **** Saudi Arabia believes the collapse of Middle East peacemaking has given Iran a chance to expand its regional influence through Sunni Islamist groups such as the Palestinian Hamas, as well as its Shi'ite traditional Hezbollah allies in Lebanon. **** This kind of non sequitur shows that Abdullah follows Rahm Emanuel's injunction: don't miss the opportunity a crisis presents to push your other agendas, however irrelevant.****