The Syrian daily Al-Watan has attacked the Interfaith Dialogue conference, sponsored by the U.N. and initiated by Saudi King Abdallah bin Abd Al-Aziz, which opened yesterday in New York (see "Interfaith Dialogue Conference Opens In NY").
The paper said that the name of the conference should be "dialogue for normalization with Israel."
Iranian students demonstrated in front of the Saudi Embassy in Tehran against the fact that Israeli officials were invited to participate in the conference, calling it normalization with Israel.
Sources: Al-Watan, Syria; Khorasan, Iran, November 13, 2008; Tabnak, IRNA, Iran, November 12, 2008
