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...said Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Fahd last week in the most ominous Arab response so far to the July resolution by the Israeli Knesset that declared undivided Jerusalem to be the country's eternal capital. The Saudi prince went on to call on all Arab countries to unite in a jihad (holy war) to liberate Israeli-occupied Arab territory and establish a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza, with East Jerusalem as its capital...
Immediately after the Hebron attack, a round-the-clock curfew was imposed on the city's 50,000 Palestinian residents. The mayor of Hebron, Fahd Qawasmi, the mayor of nearby Halhul, Mohammed Milhem, and the Muslim religious judge of the Hebron area, Sheik Rajab Bayud Tamimi, were blindfolded and put aboard an Israeli helicopter, which deported them to southern Lebanon...
...Palestinians point to the settlements policy as proof that the current autonomy talks are a sham, and that their refusal to participate is justified. "Whose land is this?" asked Hebron's Arab mayor, Fahd Qawasmi. "The Israelis announce this is their land. The U.S. says settlements are illegal. But the American government gives more and more money to Israel. Israel then builds more and more settlements. And they want me to be a party to the autonomy negotiations...
Saudi Arabia's domestic problems and its oil policy are inextricably linked. Progressive members of the royal family, including Fahd, have argued that current high production levels (9.5 million bbl. per day) are necessary to stabilize the world oil market and assist important allies like the U.S. At the current price of $26 per bbl., Saudi Arabia's oil revenues could surpass $90 billion this year...
What seriously stands in the way of better relations between Washington and Riyadh is the Palestinian problem. Fahd and other Saudi leaders remain convinced that the current autonomy talks between Egypt and Israel will fail to produce a plan that the Palestinians can or will accept. As traditional custodians of Islam's lory places, the Saudis are adamant about regaining Arab control of East Jerusalem. As pragmatists and as the world's largest oil producers, they are worried about the threat of sabotage-and subversion-if he Palestinian problem remains unresolved much longer...