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Friday, July 18, 2008
Fanatical Wahhabi anti-Semites for Israel. "Jerusalem sources told Haaretz that Israel and Saudi Arabia have been holding covert meetings in a third state. The talks in these meetings are reportedly not about changing the relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia but only about the goings on in the region. A few weeks ago, the Ilaf Web site, a prominent Saudi news medium, applied to the Government Press Office for accreditation for its foreign correspondent in Israel. Unlike most of the institutional Arab press, Ilaf publishes interviews with Israelis. Another major Saudi newspaper, the London-based Asharq alawsat, published an interview with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert earlier this month. The paper published interviews with senior Israeli figures several times over the last 10 years but in the past refrained from mentioning that these were exclusive."" (thanks R.)