AlArabiyya “documentary” on King Fahd cites the meeting between King `Abdul-`Aziz and FDR. It quoted FDR as saying that “`Abdul-`Aziz taught me about the Palestinian question in 10 minutes more than I have learned in 10 years.” I know what he taught him: that puppet Arab leaders like him don’t give a potato about the Palestinians, and are willing to use it and misuse it to their own ends. Yesterday, I was looking at the credits at the end of one of the many Fahd “documentaries” on AlArabiyya, and noticed that the producer was none other than the director of Al-Arabiyya himself, and that Mustafa Karkuti (your typical former Lebanese leftist turned Fahd champion) served as a consultant. One of the most used words in pro-Saudi media in the last several days is that the change in Saudi Arabia was salis (or smooth or easy going). They keep using that word to my irritation.
Posted on August 4, 2005 by As'ad