Maureen Dowd in the New York Times: Prince Turki al-Faisal, the charming new envoy from the royal family.She went on to describe him in his Arab robe as cutting a dashing figure, a la Lawrence of Arabia.Prince Turki al-Faisal in this week’s Financial Times writes in an op-ed warning darkly that Israel must accept the Saudi Peace Plan (promoted by the New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, by the way):[T]he Israeli armed forces have “murdered more than 1,000 Palestinians” in the course of their “bloody attack on Gaza.” He also refers to Operation Cast Lead as a “calamity,” “butchery,” “the slaughter of innocents,” and a “disaster.” He lays almost all the blame for what happened at Israel’s feet — it was “Israeli actions that led to this conflict, from settlement building in the West Bank to the blockade of Gaza and the targeted killings and arbitrary arrests of...(Read Full Post)