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Saudi King: Palestinian Disunity More Dangerous than Israel

Less worried about what happened to the Palestinian government’s money over the past 20 years, Saudi King Abdullah warned in a letter to Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas that disunity was a greater danger to the Palestinian people than the Israeli “enemy.”  He wrote that the Hamas-Fatah split that began in 2007 was more detrimental not only to Palestinians themselves, but to the potential of creating a Palestinian state than anything Israel has done.  “The arrogant and criminal enemy was not able, during years of continued aggression, to hurt the Palestinian cause as much as the Palestinians hurt their cause themselves in the past few months,” Abdullah said in the letter, published by the Saudi Press Agency on Tuesday.  Saudi Arabia has come under fire from the US recently, accused of failing to adequately cooperate in restarting peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians.  In a meeting with US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton Friday, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal rejected US envoy George Mitchell’s plan for “incrementalist peace.”  Mitchell proposed gradual confidence-building measures from both sides.