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MEMBER BLOG TAG: king abdullah

Sunday, July 27, 2008 3:13PM
 
Saudi King on Peace
Tags: King Abdullah, Palestine, Zionism, PTSD, Holocaust
 
Tikkun  to heal, repair and transform the world My Talk with the Saudis, and What I Learned from Them

By Rabbi Michael Lerner, Editor,TIKKUN

 I had expected the World Conference on Dialogue convened by the
King of Saudi Arabia July 16-18 in Madrid to be little more than  a photo op for the King, a cheap way to buy good public relations for a regime that has refused to  increase production of oil as a way to reduce the current surge in the price, provided  haven and support for the Wahabaist stream of Islam that has fostered extremists likeSaudi-born and raised Osama bin Ladin and many other, and has done far too little with its wealth to alleviate the poverty and suffering of many in the Middle East. For that...
 
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