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‘Financial Times’ warns Obama of worldwide jihad against Israel if Palestinian affliction doesn’t end

Amazing that FT gave its imprimatur to this warning: an important piece that Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal published in the Financial Tims today. The one audience of this piece: Obama. [Emphasis Weiss's]

Last week, President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad of Iran wrote a letter to
King Abdullah, explicitly recognising Saudi Arabia as the leader of the
Arab and Muslim worlds and calling on him to take a more confrontational role
over “this obvious atrocity and killing of your own children” in Gaza.
The communiqué is significant because the de facto recognition of the
kingdom’s primacy from one of its most ardent foes reveals the extent
that the war has united an entire region, both Shia and Sunni. Further,
Mr Ahmadi-Nejad’s call for Saudi Arabia to lead a jihad against Israel
would, if pursued, create unprecedented chaos and bloodshed in the
region.

So far, the kingdom has resisted these calls, but every
day this restraint becomes more difficult to maintain. When Israel
deliberately kills Palestinians, appropriates their lands, destroys
their homes, uproots their farms and imposes an inhuman blockade on
them; and as the world laments once again the suffering of the
Palestinians, people of conscience from every corner of the world are
clamouring for action. Eventually, the kingdom will not be able to
prevent its citizens from joining the worldwide revolt against Israel
.
Today, every Saudi is a Gazan, and we remember well the words of our
late King Faisal: “I hope you will forgive my outpouring of emotions,
but when I think that our Holy Mosque in Jerusalem is being invaded and
desecrated, I ask God that if I am unable to undertake Holy Jihad, then
I should not live a moment more.”

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