RUTHFULLY YOURS

You invite Saudi Arabia’s favorite lawyer famous for saying, “F___ the Jews, they don’t vote for us anyway” to your little J Street conference to denounce Israel’s undemocratic character.

Jeb Bush foreign policy adviser James Baker warned that Israel could lose its “democratic character” if it continues to “occupy Arab lands” in a carefully worded keynote address at the J Street conference on Monday evening.

Do Arab countries like Saudi Arabia lose their democratic character that they never had… or is that something that just happens to Israel?

Let’s just flash back to September 11 and see what James Baker was doing then.

ON the day Osama bin Laden’s men attacked America, Shafiq bin Laden, described as an estranged brother of the terrorist, was at an investment conference in Washington, DC, along with… James Baker, the former secretary of state

But that was just a coincidence. Could have happened to anyone.

After months of working below the radar, a huge U.S. legal team hired by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has sprung into action and begun a major counteroffensive against a landmark lawsuit seeking $1 trillion in damages on behalf of the victims of the September 11 terror attacks.

The opening defense salvo in what promises to be a bruising legal battle was fired last week when a trio of lawyers from Baker Botts, a prestigious Houston-based law firm, filed a motion on behalf of Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, the Saudi defense minister. The motion attacked the 9-11 lawsuit as a “broadside indictment of Saudi government, religion and culture.”

James Baker is a senior partner at Baker Botts which has one of its offices in Saudi Arabia. Can we get more lectures on democracy for them and less for Israel?