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> On May 13, 1:45 am, Al ****ba <williamhubb...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On May 12, 3:42 pm, "dshar...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> Wa****ngton Watch: Palestinian statehood - as elusive as ever
>>> By DOUGLAS BLOOMFIELD
>>> May 11, 2008 20:37 | Updated May 12, 2008 9:39
>>> Talkbacks for this article: 52
>>> What does it say about the Palestinian commitment to peace when the
>>> first American president to make the creation of a Palestinian state a
>>> goal of his administration is told he is unwelcome when he comes next
>>> week to celebrate Israel's 60th birthday?
>>> When President Bush goes to Israel he will be persona non grata -
>>> translation: Yankee go home -in the Palestinian Authority because they
>>> will be mourning the establishment of the Jewish state, which they
>>> refer to as the ****ba or catastrophe. That's not Hamas or Islamic
>>> Jihad, who make no secret of their desire to eradicate the state of
>>> Israel, but it is the man most identified with the concept of two
>>> states, one Jewish and one Palestinian, living side-by-side in peace -
>>> Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority.
>>> Even though he won't be welcome in Ramallah, Bush welcomed Abbas at
>>> the White House last week when the Palestinian leader came to urge him
>>> to put more pressure on Israel to meet Palestinian demands if he
>>> expects to achieve his goal of a peace agreement before he leaves
>>> office.
>>> The American president isn't the only one being snubbed; the PA has
>>> told French President Nicolas Sarkozy, German Chancellor Angela Merkel
>>> and other world leaders attending the Israeli celebration they are
>>> equally unwelcome.
>>> If Bush wants to see Abbas, he will have to go to Egypt. In a further
>>> effort to accommodate Palestinian sensitivities, Bush re****tedly will
>>> not be visiting the Western Wall, the holiest site in Judaism and
>>> location of the ancient Temple that the Palestinians insist never
>>> existed.
>>> Meanwhile, the PA is trying to organize a march of more than 100,000
>>> Palestinian refugees in Lebanon toward the Israeli border and
>>> thousands more from the West Bank and Gaza toward Israeli checkpoints
>>> and border crossings. Those living abroad are being urged to fly to
>>> Ben Gurion Air****t or take ****ps to Israeli ****ts. All this in the
>>> name of "reclaiming" homes lost in the ****ba.
>>> They are being billed as "peaceful demonstrations" but it won't take
>>> much for the emotionally charged confrontations to turn violent,
>>> creating a real catastrophe.
>>> BUT THE real ****ba is not the creation of the Jewish state but the
>>> rejection by Arab leaders of the 1947 partition plan and the
>>> op****tunity to create a state for the Palestinians. They weren't
>>> really interested in a two-state solution then and many apparently
>>> still are not - Abbas's yanking the welcome mat raises questions about
>>> his own professed commitment.
>>> The tragedy, of course, was compounded by a succession of Israeli
>>> leaders too timid and too focused on their own political careers to
>>> confront a radical settlers movement consumed with its dreams of a
>>> greater Israel and opposed to peace with the Palestinians on any terms
>>> likely to be accepted.
>>> Abbas is snubbing two im****tant allies, the president of the United
>>> States and the Israeli public. He needs both if he wants to achieve
>>> peace.
>>> An unnamed senior Palestinian official told The Jerusalem Post that
>>> Abbas left the White House "angry and depressed" last week when Bush
>>> turned down his demands to tighten the screws on the Israelis. The
>>> Bush administration is not a credible honest broker and Palestinians
>>> will have to wait for the next president, he said.
>>> He fails to understand that the close relation****p between Wa****ngton
>>> and Jerusalem makes the United States an indispensable intermediary
>>> between Israel and the Arabs; it is the only country with the
>>> credibility and clout for that role.
>>> However, he's right on the second point. After six years of neglect,
>>> the Bush administration has started to talk as if peace was a real
>>> priority - but action has lagged far behind rhetoric. The Republican
>>> and Democratic candidates for president have indicated they would get
>>> more personally involved in Mideast peace making.
>>> Israeli public opinion can be a valuable asset; it is often ahead of
>>> the political leader****p. Ehud Olmert was elected prime minister two
>>> years ago on a platform calling for withdrawal from 90 percent of the
>>> West Bank, and that was just for openers. There was hope for peace;
>>> the Gaza withdrawal was expected to create a showcase for Palestinian
>>> self-rule but instead Gaza sunk into chaos and Hamas seized power in a
>>> coup.
>>> THE DAILY barrage of missiles from Gaza, the failures of the Second
>>> Lebanon war, scandals that have seen the Israeli president resign and
>>> the prime minister under multiple corruption investigations cast
>>> shadows over this Independence Day celebration. The Olmert government
>>> could fall and if elections were held today it is likely the next
>>> prime minister would be Benjamin Netanyahu, who opposes Palestinian
>>> statehood and Bush's Annapolis initiative.
>>> Abbas strengthens Netanyahu and the rejectionists when he tells
>>> Israelis that the anniversary of their independence is a day of
>>> mourning, and Palestinians will never recognize Israel as the homeland
>>> of the Jewish people.
>>> Jews were driven out of Arab lands in roughly the same number as Arabs
>>> who fled Israel at the time of the creation of the Jewish state. The
>>> difference was the Jews were absorbed into the new state, given jobs
>>> and citizen****p, while the Palestinians were largely confined to
>>> squalid camps in order for their unwilling Arab hosts to exploit them
>>> as political pawns to use against Israel.
>>> Sixty years later Palestinian statehood is as elusive as ever and the
>>> Palestinians are still blaming their suffering on everyone but
>>> themselves. Now that's a catastrophe.
>>>
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1209627059753&pagename=JPo...
>>> Deborah
>> How many palesimians does it take to change a light bulb? None! They
>> would rather sit in darkness and blame it on the Jews!-
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> That is pretty true... But it is still a blight on us, for letting
> them act like that for the last 50 years or so..
I suppose it is our fault that an Idiot like you runs loose?
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