Posted on 12/23/2003 7:18:01 PM PST by Bobby777
Jerusalem (jnewwire.com) - The Middle East News Line (MENL) reported Sunday Israel has acceded to a Bush administration demand that an interim Palestinian state be established in the entire Gaza Strip and most of Judea and Samaria during 2004.
This state will come into being whether or not Palestinian terrorism continues and whether or not the Palestinian Authority cracks down on the terror groups, according to the MENL.
It is believed that the establishment of Palestine will have a powerfully positive effect on President George W. Bush's aspirations for re-election later in the year.
US proposal
The US proposal for Israel to recognize an interim Palestinian state in the coming year was reportedly predicated on the Washington-sponsored Road Map plan, which calls for a de facto Palestinian state to be established in 2003, and its final borders to be determined by 2005.
But whereas the Road Map stipulated that there first be an end to terrorism and the disarming and dismantling of the terrorist infrastructure in the PA areas - something the PA simply refused to do - this new proposal apparently will award the Palestinians a state without demanding any Palestinian action.
The MENL report states that, "Sharon has accepted a US proposal for an interim Palestinian state in 2004 regardless of Palestinian Authority agreement to end the more than three-year-old war and dismantle Palestinian insurgency groups."
Countdown from April?
World Net Daily reported on December 17 that Sharon no longer believes any chance exists for negotiating a meaningful peace treaty with any Palestinian Arab leaders.
Quoting "high level sources," WND said US Secretary of State Colin Powell has "assured intermediaries Washington will push Israel hard to accept Palestinian statehood next year, despite Jerusalem's misgivings."
According to the MENL report, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is set to begin his "disengagement plan" during April 2004.
In his globally publicized speech announcing this plan last week, Sharon said he would give the Palestinians a little more time to carry out their Road Map obligation to fight terrorism.
If the PA remained adamant in its refusal to do so, the Sharon government would then move unilaterally to separate Israel from the Palestinians.
The security fence Israel is currently constructing could serve as a dividing wall between the two peoples.
Terrorism's ultimate prize
The reports, if true, indicate that Israel - long the world's chief champion of the terror-combating maxim never to negotiate with terrorists - will be rewarding the Palestinian Arabs' years of Jew-massacring with the state they committed innumerable murders to obtain.
The Palestinians will have out-maneuvered Israel on every front, selling the same goods repeatedly since 1993 when they first promised to end terrorism and violence and in exchange were given "Gaza and Jericho First."
Since then, terrorists have butchered more than 1000 Israelis, and have left many thousands more wounded and maimed for life.
Israel on the altar of US elections
If Sharon has bowed to US demands for this state, it will also mean Israel will be permanently relinquishing great chunks of its ancient homeland in order to boost President George W. Bush's re-election chances in November.
In other words, the American leader will have asked Israel to risk self-destruction in order to ensure his victory at the polls.
Many Bible believers, persuaded by Scripture that the Lord God of Israel will not sit idly by while His land is so divided, are bracing for a divine response.
By 2005=2004. The Saudi's want it, Ebypt too, so it can and may well happen, there's a need for a replacement terrorist state in the region.
Israel is destroyed (Palestinian Goal) or Israel destroys the terrorists.
Bush counsels patience on Mideast in Chanukah meeting with the Jews
He will be seen as having solved one of the world's most intractable problems.
Of course, the solution will neither be real or lasting. The Palestinians will get a non-viable territory without the full attributes of a state...and the Israelis will be relieved of a burden (assuming the fence is effective).
This state of affairs might last for a few months, or a year, until Bush is re-elected. Then you can count of the Palestinians or other Arabs to commit an outrage that justifies re-ocupation.
The only real solution is "transfer" and the Israelis still don't have the power to do it.
Remember those trips to Crawford Ranch and the Saudi Peace Plan.
It makes me retch.
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