Posted on 12/24/2004 6:59:48 AM PST by abu afak
SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM Thursday, December 22, 2004
The new leader of the ruling Fatah movement said the Palestinians want to replace Israel with a state of their own.
Fatah chief Farouk Khaddoumi said the Palestinian strategy toward Israel was two-fold. In the first stage, he said, the Palestinians would accept a Palestinian state alongside Israel. In the second stage, the Palestinians would seek to eliminate the Jewish state.
In November, Khaddoumi replaced the late Yasser Arafat as leader of Fatah, Middle East Newsline reported.
"At this stage there will be two states," Khaddoumi told Iran's Al Aram television. "Many years from now, there will be only one."
Khaddoumi, who regards himself as Palestinian foreign minister, said he was confident that Israel would be eliminated. He said he always opposed Israel's existence and cited the Arab numerical superiority over the Jewish state.
"[There are] 300 million Arabs, while Israel has only the sea behind it," Khaddoumi said.
Khaddoumi said his platform was endorsed by the PLO in 1974. He said the strategy called for a phased plan that would establish authority over any territory obtained from Israel, concluding with an Arab war to destroy the Jewish state.
[On Thursday, the Palestinian Authority launched the first municipal elections in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in more than 25 years. The PA has been promising such elections since 1996.]
The Fatah chief played down the powers of PA ministers. Khaddoumi said the Fatah Central Committee marked the source of authority for the PA and Cabinet.
"The Palestinian Authority is a partial authority," Khaddoumi said. "It is a local government, just like any local government in any country. We shouldn't delude ourselves that these 'ministers' are actually ministers."
LOL
Actually, my comment was in Russian.
I am very thankful that Condi Rice hasn't read FR - or if she has, that she has decided NOT to rat me out.
That figures.
"Those who bless you, I will bless, and those who curse you, I will curse."
Yes indeed, and history has shown this over and over. The Gospel was given to Jews who then brought it to the Gentiles. The canon of the Christian Bible includes the Jewish Bible. Jesus, when He came to this earth, chose to be born of a Jewish woman in the Jewish county. His foster-father on earth, St. Joseph, was Jewish. His discples and apostles were Jewish, the authors of the Christian Bible were Jewish (Luke is often thought to have been a Gentile proselyte to Judaism), and the Old Testament Saints (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, King David, Elijah, Isaiah, etc.) that Christians honor were Jewish. To deny those things is to deny the roots of Christianity.
SirLurkedalot just got a cheer from the Amen Corner over here in Virginia!
Arabs are too punk to be Sauron, and too dumb to be Saruman.
The second option is not a viable option. Israel will not survive past the point where it becomes majority Muslim.
The only viable option is to provide all Muslim women of childbearing age with a financial incentive to move out of Israel. No women bearing babies == no "demographic time bomb"
South Africa had a good enough military to take on all the rest of Africa, if they wanted to. It didn't save them, once the pressure of the rest of the world, and internal conflict, made their position untenable. Israel needs to figure out a way to make the Muslims go elsewhere. A $10K emigration subsidy to any 18-year-old Muslim girl who wants to leave would work wonders. Especially if combined with assistance in establishing a new identity abroad
;) Yeah I'm kinda hardcore on a few things...
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