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...sour mood in Saudi Arabia itself. Officially, the desert monarchy showered Reagan with praise for his staunch battle on behalf of the AWACS. But TIME editors on a news tour of the Persian Gulf region with U.S. businessmen heard a different line from Saudi officials, beginning with Prince Abdullah ibn Abdul Aziz, No. 3 in the Saudi hierarchy. "I personally am hoping for the failure of the vote today," he said only hours before the Senate roll call. "That would be an eye-opener for the American people. It would make them realize that there is another government [Israel] that...
...multimillion-dollar estate in Riyadh, Sheik Abdul Aziz Tawajiri, a commander of the Saudi Internal security force under Prince Abdullah, delivered an emotional warning. Its essence: Saudi Arabia's aspirations to pan-Arab leadership are incompatible with close Saudi-American friendship, so long as the U.S. remains Israel's chief supporter. Within Saudi Arabia, warned Tawajiri, "a generation gap is developing. Perceptions of the U.S. are changing, slowly perhaps, but for the worse." As most of his ten sons sat silently near by, the sheik, who is in his early 70s, asserted that they "have sizzling arguments with me. They...
...August, Crown Prince Fahd announced a peace plan for the Middle East. Among other things, this plan called for a transitional United Nations trusteeship over the West Bank and Gaza until the establishment of an independent Palestinian state. Abdullah acknowledged that Fahd's initiative implicitly recognizes the existence of Israel, a potentially important concession: "The initiative was proposed after the Camp David accords were considered dead or at least dying. Our plan recognizes the right of Israel to exist only after, the acceptance of a Palestinian state, the return to the 1967 borders and an end to the state...
Only twelve hours before the start of the dramatic Senate roll-call vote on the AWACS, Prince Abdullah ibn Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia received a group of businessmen and TIME editors at his palace in Riyadh. Since King Khalid was ill and Crown Prince Fahd was out of the country, Abdullah, commander of the 30,000-man national guard, was the ranking member of the royal family...
Asked what constituted the greatest threat to Saudi Arabia's security, Abdullah answered, "American aid to Israel." In an implicit but stinging refutation of the Reagan Administration's notion that an anti-Soviet "strategic consensus" can be built around Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Israel, Abdullah said: "We hear constantly that the Soviet Union and Communism constitute the greatest danger to the Middle East. But as a friend, I tell you that you Americans constitute the greatest danger. The reason is your total alliance with Israel. The Arab masses feel abandoned by the U.S. and find it convenient...