The bullies are gathering

I’m struggling to put words to my dismay upon reading the following:

Saudi Arabia claimed an important diplomatic breakthrough yesterday when it said Iran had agreed to support an Arab peace plan to end the Israeli-Palestinian crisis.

By securing Teheran’s apparent backing for the peace plan, which dates from 2002 and envisages a Palestinian state on land occupied by Israel in 1967, diplomatic pressure will mount on Tel Aviv. But there was no official confirmation from Iran about the agreement which would represent a significant watering-down of its traditionally hardline position that calls for all Israeli land to be given to Palestinians.

(Read the rest here.)

If I read the above correctly, the moral algorithm that Tim Butcher, The Telegraph’s Middle East Correspondent applies goes thusly: Because Iran, one of the most dangerous nations in the world, a nation that has implicitly and explicitly threatened to destroy Israel, has signed on to a plan floated by Saudi Arabia, which funds extreme Islamism around the world, and which is no friend of Israel either, Israel is now going to be in the moral wrong if she rejects that plan. Is it just me, or is there something wrong with this picture.

UPDATE: LGF reminds us about “our friends the Saudis.” Right now, they’re slightly the lesser of two evils compared to Al Qaeda and Iran (the enemy of my enemy is my awkward ally), but these are not nice people.

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