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Saudi Envoy Attacks
King Hussein in 'Times'

ARTHUR J. MAGIDA

Special to the Jewish News

I

f, as a wag once said,
"Diplomacy is to do and
say
The nastiest thing in the
nicest way,"
then Bandar bin Sultan al-
Saud has just dealt diploma-
cy a knife in the back.
In an open letter to Jor-
dan's King Hussein on the
New York Times Op-Ed page
last week, Mr. al-Saud,
Saudi Arabia's ambassador
to the United States, was
frank, brutal and, even sar-
castic. Diplomatic niceties
were abandoned for a per-
sonal attack on the king ("I
long had great respect and
affection for you . . ., but I no
longer feel you are the same
man I knew") and for a
refrain, repeated eight
times, that "facts are stub-
born things."
These "facts" were intend-
ed to pull the historical rug
out from underneath the
king, with whom the Saudis
are furious because he is
backing Iraq's Saddam Hus-
sein.
A similar Op-Ed by the
Saudi ambassador appeared
in the Washington Post.
Most interesting to sup-
porters of Israel is a "fact"
the Saudi chose to portray of
Jordan's role in the Israeli-
Arab conflict. In a recent
speech to the American peo-
ple, wrote the ambassador,
the king had "claimed to de-
fend the Palestinian people's
right to self-determination
and a state of their own .. .
But you were responsible for
the Palestinian homeland on
the West Bank from 1948 to
1967. Why in all that period
did you not give them their
rights and statehood?"
As a retort to Iraqi and
Jordanian efforts to link
Saddam Hussein's takeover
of Kuwait with the Palestin-
ian question, the ambas-
sador asked, "How would
the occupation of Kuwait
give our brother Palestin-
ians their homeland?"
Mr. al-Saud also challeng-
ed the king's claim that the
Kuwaiti-Iraqi border is
"disputed and based on a
colonial record created by
the colonial British."
"Your Majesty," wrote the
ambassador, "you should be
the last one to say that. Not

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Arthur J. Magida is a senior
writer for our sister news-
paper, the Baltimore Jewish
Times.

David Gad-Harf:
Points out the extent of the rift.
only all your borders but
your whole country was cre-
ated by the colonial British."
"It came as something as a
shock to read that one Arab
leader would be so public in
his criticism of another,"
said Jewish Council exec-
utive director David Gad-
Harf. It points out the extent
of the rift that has been cre-
ated by the Persian Gulf
crisis between those suppor-
ting Saddam Hussein and
those opposing. It
underscores the divisions
within the Arab world.
"What was further as-
tounding were the actual
themes that were presented
by the ambassador, because
they were reminiscent of
arguments made by sup-
porters vis-a-vis the Pales-
tinian question," he con-
tinued. "The world forgets
that Jordan controlled the
territories between 1948 and
1967 and did nothing to pro-
vide for the rights of the
Palestinians."

Mel Brooks
On Germany

On Wednesday, East met
West and Germany, for the
first time in 45 years, was
united. But Mel Brooks,
whose 1967 film, The Pro-
ducers, poked fun at the
Third Reich, does not rejoice.
"When I first heard that
East Germany was going to
merge with West Germany,"
the screenwriter/film direc-
tor told Men's Life, a new
magazine, "my blood chilled.
And ever since, I keep notic-
ing these tiny, infinitesimal
hairs standing on the back of

