Insanity is doing the same thing over and over but expecting to get different results.
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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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We would train and equip Palestinian troops - so that they could then kill Israelis? Did she actually say this?
I can't believe Rice said this, but there it is between the quotes. Sigh.
I think she meant the actual "Palestinian" army, not Hamas and the rest of the terrorists.
Analogous to training Iraqi troops, as opposed to training al-Zarqawi's people...
I'm wondering about this too.
On one hand, the PA is the only thing that keeps Hamas from taking over everything in Gaza and the West Bank.
On the other hand, the PA is hopelessly corrupt, inept and turns a blind eye to terrorism too.
I think the US definitely ought to stay away from that idea.
Worst idea of the 21st Century alert!
What in the world is that about? We are still pro-Israel aren't we?
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.
Don't fret...it's not what you think...
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over but expecting to get different results.
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I don't understand it either. I was hoping someone here could enlighten ME as well.
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Absolutely not. This is totally unacceptable.
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I think it might be a good idea to get a firm commitment from Abbas in writing to crack down on and arrest the terrorist groups before going through with an idea like this, and even with such a commitment we should be really careful.
Except that we waited until after the war was over-- we didn't train them while they were trying to kill us.
a commitment from a palestinian piece of garbage is not worth much.
New leader = new commitment to peace. It's only a matter of time until it all slips away (again) if we don't commit.
When the lowlife terrorist Arafat was in charge, I agreed with your sentiment. Personally, I'm willing to at least try to give Abbas a chance to prove he's really different from Arafat. His honeymoon will be a short one though.
Uh huh. I'll start believing it when I start seeing it. Haven't so far.
http://www.afsi.org/PRESSREL/abbas1.htm
Abbas retains his hard-line views. If implemented, they will jeopardize Israel's very existence. In an interview last month, he continued to justify ''armed struggle'' against Israeli civilians. He has never repudiated his 1983 book, ''The Other Side: The Secret Relationship Between Nazism and the Zionist Movement,'' which denies the Holocaust occurred." And from Holocaust denial we move to the Munich massacre:
Steve K. Walz for WorldNetDaily.com - April 29, 2003
"President Yasser Arafat's newly appointed Palestinian Authority prime minister does not have the pristine past touted by his supporters, charges an Israeli civil rights group.
Mahmoud Abbas, known as Abu Mazen, provided financing for the terrorist attack that killed 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Germany, says Israeli attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, director of the Shurat Hadin - Israel Law Center. In a letter to President George W. Bush and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, Darshan-Leitner called for an investigation into Abu Mazen's role in the Sept. 5, 1972, attack, carried out by Arafat's central Palestinian Liberation Organization faction Fatah."
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