'I think that you are another one of those dessert loving English.... Dirty, Stubborn. No Arab loves the dessert, we love water and green trees. There is nothing in the dessert. No man needs nothing. Or is is that you think that we are something that you can play with? Because we are a little people, a silly people. Greedy, barbarous and cruel. What do you know Lt? In the Arab city of Cordoba there were two miles of public lighting when London was just a village.'   King Fahed to Lawrence of Arabia