The New York Sun editorially casts a jaundiced eye toward the interfaith dialogue scheduled to take place in Madrid next week. It starts with trying to sort out who’s been invited, then goes on to speculate on why Saudi Arabia might be interested in the topic, now. It’s pretty light-weight stuff, but it’s what’s being reported

The Saudi Dialogue

Quite a drama is unfolding in advance of the World Conference on Dialogue that is being sponsored by the Saudi king and is scheduled to take place next week at Madrid. Last week all the talk was of the “breakthrough” that had been obtained by the invitation to the conference of an Israeli rabbi, David Rosen. In the event, however, Rabbi Rosen, who was born in England and has served as chief rabbi of Ireland, turns out to be listed in conference materials as being from America.

Then there was the matter of a representative of the Neturei Karta, the anti-Zionist Jewish sect that incurred the wrath of many Jews by sending representatives to Iran to meet with President Ahmadinejad around the time of his Holocaust denial conference. Jews invited to the Madrid conference next week found the inclusion of the Neturei Karta so troubling that, according to one rabbi planning to attend, Marc Schneier of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, the national director of the Islamic Society of North America, Sayyid Syeed, took up the cause, telling the Saudi ambassador to America that unless the Neturei Karta representative was removed and disinvited, he himself wouldn’t go to Madrid.
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