Confidence Building Measures

Israel National News (Arutz 7) ^ | June 3, 2003 | Isaan Kohn

[Alouette]

I could not believe what I saw late last night on the news bulletin on the Palestinian Authority television station. I rubbed my eyes to see better, but there it was, repeated by the newscaster; a tiny red ball of laser kept bouncing on the blackboard on the wall in the news room as he moved from one item to another in slow motion, explaining every numbered detail. All together, there were twelve itemized points. The title above the list, in black, bold letters, proclaimed: "PA Confidence-Building Concessions". I almost choked.

As ´confidence building moves´ towards establishing peace with Israel, the following items will be implemented by the PA, as urged by the State Department and as demanded by President Bush:

1. The PA will immediately arrest the following terrorist leaders:
2. - Heads of Hamas;
3. - Heads of Islamic Jihad;
4. - Heads of Tanzim;
5. - Head of Fatah; and
6. - Heads of any other terror group that took active part in the Oslo War.

7. The PA will immediately extradite the arrested to the United States to stand trial for crimes against humanity;

8. The PA, in a confidence building move, will immediately confiscate all weapons of any kind and hand them over to the CIA operatives present in Gaza;

9. The PA will issue an ultimatum for all terrorist cells in any PA territory to cease and desist immediately. Those cells refusing will be forcibly dismantled;

10. The PA will immediately confiscate all school textbooks in which incitement against Israel is printed. These books will all be handed to the CIA monitors in Gaza, who will burn them in the Gaza main square;

11. The PA will immediately dismantle and destroy all buildings that were built on Jewish lands confiscated in 1948;

12. The PA will immediately dislodge all those Arabs living in former Jewish homes in the following cities: Hevron, Bethlehem, Shchem, East Jerusalem, Galil, Jaffa, Acco (Israel will oblige with the last four cities by doing the job herself) and other cities and towns (the names of all of the other Arab areas in Israel proper appear in amendment #3445 of the Road Map);

13. The PA will immediately transfer $500 million to Israel as partial reimbursement for damage caused by terrorist action since 2000;

14. The PA will immediately negate its charter calling for the destruction of Israel;

15. The PA will immediately implement a compensation program to repay all those Israelis who sustained physical and emotional damages. Special funds will be set up (under CIA supervision) for the thousands of Israeli orphans;
16. Once the above are implemented, Israel will consider its´ reciprocal moves.

There were three or four more items requiring the immediate compliance by the PA in order for the ´peace process´ to get the momentum it needs. The news reporter, however, seemed to be extremely agitated and turned off the laser pointer. The camera zoomed in and I was able to read the last two ´demands´; I then understood the agitation that item #12 caused.

12) The immediate arrest and extradition of the arch-terrorist, Chairman-President-General, European royalty, Yasser Arafat, must be effected immediately. Should the PA refuse to do so, the Quartet will deem the ´search for peace´ as null and void and Israel will be allowed to do whatever it deems necessary to eradicate the vermin, otherwise known as the PA.

What an excellent set of ´confidence building concessions´, I thought, as the TV screen suddenly went black. I yawned as I rubbed my sleepy eyes. I must have fallen asleep and dreamed; no normal human being would ever think up such absurdity.

[Alouette]

Here's a nice set of "painful concessions" for the Palestinians just the inverse of what Israel has to carry out.

[Alouette]

ping

[McGavin999]

They don't have to make those concessions, we plan on doing that ourselves. A concession means you have a choice.

[DannyTN]

Nice wish list.

But somehow I don't believe the PA has agreed to it. Didn't what his name the new PM say they wouldn't recognize Israel's right to exist just today?

Just more games...

[montag813]

Bush is demanding NONE of this...all he asks for in return for Israel's dismemberment is empty Arab lies. They call the founding of Israel the "Nabka" or "catastrophe"...and in Arabic promise their people it will be "reversed"...meaning that their eternal goal of destroying Israel is unmoved by a mere piece of paper they sign.

Bush might as well say "We call for Israel and an Al Queda State to live side-by-side, both armed to the teeth, so that thousands more can be murdered". A Hindu friend told me the other day that our existence is not real...we are living in a dream of a Hindi god. Were but it were true...Bush's perfidy and sheer insanity on this issue is all too real.

[onyx]

Isaan Kohn has quite an imagination!

[cookcounty]

ping for George W Bush....

[cookcounty]

What bothers me is that it appears that in the President's remarks at Sharm-al-Shek today, he limited his "demands" of the Arabs to "stopping the funding of terrorists, while demanding much from the Israelis.

The constant incitement and misreducation of young Arabs is, in my opinion, issue # 1. Without aggressive action by Arab leaders on this issue, the "Road Map" does not deserve any consideration at all.