Posted on 06/04/2014 12:29:52 AM PDT by Olog-hai
When Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas chose to scuttle peace talks with Israel this spring by deciding to conclude a pact with Hamas rather than the Jewish state, he was taking a calculated risk. In embracing his Islamist rivals, Abbas sought to unify the two leading Palestinian factions not to make peace more possible but to make it impossible. Since Palestinian public opinion—indeed the entire political culture of his people—regards any pact that would recognize the legitimacy of a Jewish state as a betrayal of their national identity, bringing Hamas back into the PA fold illustrated that he would not take the sort of risks that peacemaking required. […]
In recognizing the fig leaf of a “technocratic” government that is meant to distract the world from the reality that Hamas is now in full partnership with Abbas, the Obama administration may think it has put Israel’s government—which publicly called for the world not to recognize the Palestinian coalition—into a corner. But by discarding its own principles about recognizing unrepentant terror groups, Obama has done more than betray Israel. He has betrayed the cause of peace. …
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Hey geniuses. Barack is being EVIL.
Write your senator to withhold all financial support for the PLO!!!
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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I hope they will. It’s time to stop pussyfooting around with guys who will NOT play nice.
Islam is full of hate... it will leave even its own brothers and sisters, wives and babies, out in the cold for the sake of ginning up an imaginary cause against the Jewish people (Israel). If it wanted to absorb our Pallie pals it could. But it is not love based, and that’s why it does not act like either Judaism or Christianity.
“Betrayed” piece? Does one betray one two dollar whore by going to another? Nobody in the White House has been interested in piece, or even peace, in ages.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSQnfSfAsPM
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