Posted on 09/04/2006 1:50:16 PM PDT by Dallas59
Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams announced plans Sunday for his first trip to Israel and the Palestinian Authority, including a visit with leaders of Hamas.
Adams, whose Irish Republican Army-linked party has grown in recent years to become the major representative of Northern Ireland's Catholic minority, said he hoped his visit Tuesday through Thursday would encourage compromise between Israel and Hamas.
"It is imperative that genuine negotiation and dialogue between the representatives of the Palestinian and Israeli people commences as quickly as possible," Adams said.
"While no two conflicts are identical, there are key conflict resolution principles which can be applied in any situation. These include inclusive dialogue, respect for electoral mandates, and respect for human rights and international law," he added.
Adams said he had been invited to the region by Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, leader of the Fatah movement that Hamas defeated in elections earlier this year. The two rival forces are currently negotiating about potentially forming a coalition government.
The Sinn Fein chief said he also planned to meet Hamas leaders of the Palestine Legislative Council and deliver a speech at Shimon Peace Center.
Adams' planned visit is being viewed negatively in Washington, where Republican congressmen normally supportive of Sinn Fein do not want Adams to be seen supporting Hamas, which refuses to recognize Israel's right to exist.
The administration of President George W. Bush has been mulling whether to lift its ban on Sinn Fein fund-raising among Irish-Americans, a restriction in force since 2005, when international authorities blamed the IRA for robbing a Belfast bank and knifing to death a Belfast Catholic.
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This will not surprise you.
I'd love to a claymore on the wall at that meeting. At least they'll each know someone when they get to hell.
should read "be a claymore"
Good friends of the Kennedy's, Clintons, Kerry's.
Now - How many republicans have been kissing up to this irish trerrorist leader also?
Peter King from here on Long Island, in NY.
Throughout his career, King has been one of the strongest and most outspoken supporters of the Irish Republican Army. During negotiations in 1998, King carried messages between the IRA and the British government. King was instrumental in convincing President Bill Clinton to grant a visa to Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams in 1994. Later that year, at Clinton's urging, King voted to support the federal Assault Weapons Ban. In 1998, despite his strong conservative views, King was one of only a few House Republicans to vote against the impeachment of Clinton.
True, I Ireland Pinged this on another thread, but it didn't surprise me then.
*Spin doctors of Bertie Ahern and Tony Blair working overtime*
the last should have read as a quote but I had an itchy trigger finger....by no means do I consider Peter King a Conservative....
he is a RINO
I'm thinking King is a pseudo-conservative.
Oh, I posted too soon, as well!
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