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 Saudi Arabia sticks to Arab Initiative in drive for ties with Israel aletho Mar 16 MEMO | March 16, 2023 Saudi Arabia's former intelligence chief has said that the Kingdom is sticking to the terms of the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative in its drive to normalise relations with Israel. "The terms are well-known," Prince Turki Al-Faisal told France 24. "The creation of a sovereign Palestinian state with recognised borders and Jerusalem is its capital, and the return of Palestine refugees." He pointed out that these were the conditions that Saudi Arabia added to the initiative before it was adopted by the Arab League 21 years ago. The Arab Peace Initiative has been rejected by every Israeli government since then. Moreover, several Arab states have bypassed it and forged ties with the occupation state. Replying to a question about the potential normalisation of ties with Israel without fulfilling these conditions, Al-Faisal confirmed: "What I have said was not my op...

 Did US raise a false flag on Nord Stream blasts? aletho Mar 9 BY BRADLEY K. MARTIN | ASIA TIMES | MARCH 9, 2023 Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh said an odd thing on March 7 when TASS asked him to compare his version of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipeline explosions (US Navy divers did it, he had reported February 8) with a newly released version from the New York Times and German media that points to non-governmental Ukrainians as culprits. “I don’t want to get into it,” Hersh replied to the Russian wire service. “You should decide for yourself. It’s up to you.” The TASS reporter persisted, asking if Hersh thought the New York Times account had come in response to Hersh’s own investigation. He gave the same reply, saying people should come to their own conclusions. That was pretty clever. Read both versions and you may conclude that they could fit together to point to a plausible account of how, as war raged over Ukraine, three pipelines supplying Germany’s gas supply from Russi...