Israel Matzav: It's about time someone in this country ticked off the Saudis

It's about time someone in this country ticked off the Saudis

Barack Obama may bow to Saudi King Abdullah, but Binyamin Netanyahu does not, and the Saudis are not too pleased about that. One of the 15,000 or so Saudi princes has slammed Prime Minister Netanyahu's AIPAC speech for saying that Jerusalem isn't a 'settlement.'

A Saudi official is also quoted as saying that his country expects clarification from the Quartet over “Israeli arrogance...defiance of international will as well as violation of all the international laws and legislations.”

In Netanyahu’s speech, he declared that “Jerusalem is not a settlement,” responding to new criticism of Jewish housing construction in east Jerusalem.

The official also asserted that Israel "blatantly confiscated Palestinian, Arab and Islamic rights in Jerusalem without any regard to Palestinian, Arab and Islamic rights” in the wake of the Netanyahu government's plan to build 1,600 homes in Ramat Shlomo.

"Saudi Arabia has always called upon the international community to bear the responsibility of dealing with the Israeli one-sided defiance that usually opposes the peace process," the official said.

For the record, Ramat Shlomo was built on an area that was no-man's land prior to the 1967 Six Day War (which was initiated in Jerusalem by the Saudi royal family's cousins the Hashemites). Israel didn't confiscate the land from anyone once it drove out the illegal occupiers from Jordan (Jordan's occupation of Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem from 1948-67 was recognized only by England and Pakistan).

And by the way, Judea and Samaria aren't 'settlements' either, nor are the Jewish towns located therein. They are part of the Land of Israel. So there.

Israel Matzav: It's about time someone in this country ticked off the Saudis