[The Rant]

As always, comments on the content of this piece are welcom. Thanks fellow FReepers and have a happy New Year!

[DonQ]

With reference to the thread title, namely that Palestinians Need to Give, would someone enumerate for me the promises (in the Oslo Accords, the Wye River agreement, the Road Map, the Geneva Accords, etc.) that the Palestinians kept?

[aimhigh]

The Palestinians don't want a state. They were offered one in '48 and rejected it in favor of war. For the next 18 years, Jordan controled the West Bank and could have created a state, but they didn't, and the Palestinians didn't ask for it.

[bjcintennessee]

Very interesting. Thanks for posting this.

And a Happy New Year to you too!

[SJackson]

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[Alouette]

Proof Again That The Palestinians Need To Give

On the contrary, the past 10 years have proven that they will get their "state" without doing anything in return so why should they give anything?

[Alouette]

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[goldstategop]

The Palestinians ARE dominated by their extremists and rejectionists. These are the folks who attacked openly not just the Foreign Minister from one of their most sympathetic foreign allies but have poured into the streets to celebrate the homocide mass murder of Jews. They are not ready to live in peace with Israel, at least not in this generation.

[thoughtomator]

Seize Arafat's bank accounts and watch how quickly the Palis will start to play nice.

The Palis are like a spoiled child. They throw tantrum after tantrum, because they have found that being unreasonable will get them things they want. This has two results: one, the Palis will continue to throw tantrums at every opportunity; and two, the Palis will never grow up.

[BenR2]

Upon reading this astonishing account of such (apparently unpunished) hideous behavior on the part of a number of Palestinians, it gives one pause to think that, while Anti-Semitism is resurgent in our day, very few people seem to view the Palestinians as the troublemakers that many of them are.