Posted on 02/02/2005 7:12:36 AM PST by Sunshine55
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday held out the possibility of U.S. support to train and equip Palestinian forces as she seeks to promote Middle East peace on a visit to the region next week.
Making her first trip abroad as secretary of state, Rice will meet Israeli and Palestinian officials in Jerusalem and the West Bank on Monday to try to capitalize on what Washington sees as a new chance for peace after Yasser Arafat's death.
The disputed shooting of a Palestinian girl in the Gaza Strip on Monday illustrated the fragility of the relative calm since the Palestinian icon died and triggered mortar fire by Arab militants on a nearby Jewish settlement.
Rice said Arafat's successor, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, had demonstrated the will to clamp down on violence by quickly deploying security forces in the Gaza Strip, where militant groups have adopted a tacit truce.
"It's not perfect, but they have made some progress" on getting control of the disparate Palestinian security forces and on cracking down on violence against Israelis, Rice told Reuters and Agence France-Presse.
"Obviously the Palestinians are going to need help in terms of training and equipping their new security forces and I am sure that there will be ways that we might be involved in that," she said.
Rice suggested Washington could also help the Palestinians develop democratic institutions and, eventually, support reconstruction if Israel carries through with its plan to close all 21 Jewish settlements in Gaza and four in the West Bank.
"What I hope to do when I go there is to try and sustain -- help to sustain -- the momentum that they (the Israelis and Palestinians) have clearly developed over the last several weeks," she added.
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i kept arguing with my lib mom durring the last election..she kept saying"watch Bush turn on the jews after the election"i told her No way,he is not like his father...hmmmm
Without USAID there would be no Hamas.
Does that mean that I'm not an American? I'm a Swede because my grandparents were born there?
I'm not ignoring your advocacy of genocide of the Palestinians. I just see that it's been dealt with by others.
A child who has been sacrificed by his family is no loss to you. You're quite a moral authority, you are....
I was amazed at how naive you are to think that the P.A. is doing anything whatsoever to restrain Hamas in Gaza. I fail to see the need for an insult.
I hope that we *do* train them. We need to get off of Israel's nipple.
"On the other hand, the PA is hopelessly corrupt, inept and turns a blind eye to terrorism too."
Please note the (above) other comment I made in my initial post.
There was no naivete in my previous post regarding the PA.
Your comparison has no relevancy to this. Yes your an American because you were born here and accept America. You dont come here and try to make America the new Sweden. The Palestinian Flag was created in 1967 after the 6 day war as a new method by the Muslims to attack Israel.
First off the British Mandate includes present day JORDAN and once again that was in the 1920's when the Arabs began flooding the region! 1844 - when the Land of Israel was controlled by the Turkish Muslims - the Turkish census counted 7,120 Jews and 5,000 Muslims living in Jerusalem. Thus, Jerusalem was already a Jewish city 160 years ago.
In Take note of how few people lived in Jerusalem in 1844 - even though Jerusalem was by far the largest town in the Land of Israel!
The claim of the Arab Muslim Nazis that they lived in the Holy Land for 2,000 years, until the Jews came, is a lie. Arabs only came to the Land of Israel in large numbers after the Jews returned in the 20th century and started to rebuild the nation, thereby creating economic and employment opportunities for Arab immigrants.
Jerusalem had a very small population because the Land of Israel as a whole was mostly uninhabited until the Jews started to return in larger numbers in 1870. Israel's interior areas were mainly a desert-like wasteland while her coast was a malaria-ridden swamp.
The Zionist chalutzim (pioneers) spent decades working to turn the deserts into gardens, and working to drain the coastal swamps until the Land of Israel became the breathtakingly beautiful, lush, modern nation that it is today.
Prior to 1870, when Jews started to return to the Holy Land in large numbers, there were fewer than 100,000 Arabs living in what is today the State of Israel - including Yesha (the Hebrew acronym for Judea, Samaria and the Gaza District)
This small number of nomadic, tribal Arabs who lived in the Holy Land before the modern Jewish return never considered themselves to be a separate people or nation
The Arabs who lived in the Land of Israel were not "Palestinians" but Arabs - part of a huge Arab people with 22 very large independent nations that control one-ninth of the land mass on the planet Earth.
Indeed, the Arabs have more than 600 times the land that the Jews have. But the implacable Arab goal is to swallow up and destroy the tiny Jewish homeland.
You admire families that sacrifice there children to kill Jews?
Your quite the terrorist sympathizer!
Then why do you support creating a another Muslim Nazi state committed to the destruction of the only Jewish State in thw World. Why do you support removing Jews from Gaza and the West Bank?
You're on the edge already by saying that the death of children is no loss, but twisting my words beyond recognition to suit your own warped view of the world, is not something I will tolerate.
Sorry I save my weeping for the dead of the US and our Allies!
"I think it might be a good idea to get a firm commitment from Abbas in writing"
Rush has always said one side has to win DECISIVELY or NO conflict of this nature is EVER resolved.
... and he is not the first person to say it.
nor the last.
there is no such thing as a 'palestinian'.
May God have mercy on you.
What did I say that is sick?
Kill your enemies before they kill you. Is that sick.
I am not adovcating lining up all so called Palestinians and shooting them. I am advocating the paid deportation of the so called PAlestinians. Most would agree to this. As to those who dont well let them stay in their dried desert and see how long they last.
What are you suggesting Israel does?
Give them a second,third,fourth,fifth, etc... chance while more Jews died.
IF the Muslims had it their way they would kill, maim and torture every Jew in ISrael.
It's not my responsibility to go back and do it for you.
You're a tough guy who wants to kill people. Be a man and admit you went over the line.
And unless you do that, don't post to me again.
"As for the Muslim children they participate in attacks on Israel with the encouragement of their mothers so it is no loss if they die"
I will admit I forgot the IF as in IF THEY PARTICIPATE.
Now IF THEY PARTICIPATE in attacks on ISraelies which many do then there death is no loss. DO you disagree with that?
You have stated repeatedly that there is no loss if that child dies, and that is what reveals a sickness in your soul.
Good day, M 91.
I know, let's give them F-16's and teach them to fly!
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