King Abdullah

Article from the Air Force Insider:

It's finally out in the open. The Bush Administration's efforts to conceal the increasing conflict between the United States and Saudi Arabia have failed.

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Breakfast in Jordan, Sala'am, Shalom, Please!

This morning a powerful group had breakfast together and its about time!

King Abdullah, as brilliantly Machiavellian as his dad, the first king of Jordan, decided to step up, speak up, and offer up the beginning of a dialogue for a ceasefire between Israel and Gaza, hopefully leading to peace.

Nobel Laureate Itzchak Perez (former PM and now FM of Israel, despite originating on the other side of the political spectrum, Olmert's cabinet is a very healthy mix of hawks and doves), Israeli PM Ehud Olmert, and Mahmoud Abbas aka Abu Mazen, the largely symbolic and impotent though intelligent and moderate PM of the Pal Authority, all sat down to have a luscious and elegant breakfast with the diminutive Oxford-educated King Abdullah of Jordan.

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