Posted on 11/21/2015 3:44:38 PM PST by Eleutheria5
For the first time, Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas has admitted that he rejected "out of hand" an Israeli offer for a PA state on nearly 95% of Judea and Samaria.
In 2008, then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert offered to agree to the creation of an independent PA state including all of Gaza, nearly all of Judea/Samaria, and parts of Israel – a total area equal to 99.5% of the size of Judea and Samaria. In addition, a tunnel would connect Judea/Samaria to Gaza, and the PA state would have its capital in eastern Jerusalem. Not only that: Olmert also agreed to the return of 5,000 Arab refugees from the 1948 War of Independence over five years.
Abbas never publicly admitted that he turned down this offer – until this past week.
In an interview on Israel's Channel 10, Abbas said that in September of 2008, Olmert presented him with a map that delineated the borders of the proposed PA state. The Channel 10 interviewer asked, "In the map that Olmert presented you, Israel would annex 6.3 percent [of Judea/Samaria] and compensate the Palestinians with 5.8 percent [taken from pre-1967 Israel]. What did you propose in return?"
Abbas replied, "I did not agree ... I rejected it out of hand." Abbas in fact did not initial the map, and the PA never officially responded to the Olmert offer.
This jibes with Olmert's report of the meeting. Olmert has said that Abbas said at the time, "I am not in a marketplace or a bazaar. I came to demarcate the borders of Palestine - the June 4, 1967 borders - without detracting a single inch, and without detracting a single stone from Jerusalem, or from the holy Christian and Muslim places. This is why the Palestinian negotiators did not..."
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A deal with the Jews is not in accordance with your orders.
This is why land for peace is pure futility. There isn’t enough land, and they will never agree to peace.
Well then. I guess that leaves the “Highlander” solution.
There can only be one.
Israel needs to expel or preferably kill the enemy. All this “humanitarianism” and generosity and forebearence and direct aid is just mistaken as weakness to be exploited. It is a long- proven fact that it leads to more murderous Moslem attacks, not peace.
They have never wanted peace.
Obama learned his negotiating skills from Abbas.
The one good thing about keeping the Arabs on the West Bank and in Gaza, is that nukes are generally off the table against Israel. Of course that’s unless they don’t mind nuking the Arabs off the map at the same time.
If it weren’t for this factor, I’d suggest Israel expel the Arabs on the West Bank and Gaza.
Of course Abbas rejected the proposal. If he had accepted, he would have been murdered within a week.
Even if he had agreed, with Olmert almost out of office nothing productive would have come of an acceptance.
I am glad that the terrorist Abbas did not agree, it would have destroyed Israel and there would be no way the Israeli police could have dealt with them being in Jerusalem and having to fight with them as they murdered Jewish citizens from their homes. It is so stupid and I thank God that the fool Olmert is gone and may he never return to a position of power. He would have been a democrat in America and would give the savages of many nations homes to live in on taxpayers dime while feeding and arming them to murder American taxpayers. The world, the western world, is getting more ignorant, arrogant and foolish every passing day and there is no doubt that secular humanism is the cause of stupidity. Next thing you know, they will give their allegiance to the anti Christ who will eventually destroy all religions and then proclaim himself as God in the Temple at Jerusalem in the middle of the tribulation, at which time great tribulation will begin for Israel and all the earth who reject Christ as Lord and Saviour, the one true God who created all things by His Word.
Then, all nations will know that stupid is as stupid does and stupid always says, “There is no God”. Therefore, God gave them over to a reprobate mind to do great evil and abominations so that they will deserve the judgement they could have avoided by believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
As did the former “Palestinian Authority” leader Yassir Arafat, who was not a “Palestinian” but was born in Egypt. They are all frauds, interested in nothing but hatred of everything Jewish, true evil believers in the epileptic, murderer, thief, rapist, child abuser, and false prophet, Mohammed.
This is why Israel has to be VERY CAREFUL who they elect. This would have ENDED Israel much faster than Iran could ever dream of.
They got VERY LUCKY.
He wasn’t elected. He was selected while Sharon was getting over that coma thing. How conveeeenient.
“He wasn’t elected. He was selected while Sharon was getting over that coma thing.”
The poor man was in a coma for 8 years and then died.
That’s a “thing”?
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Abbas and his staff/family/entourage should be snuffed, right in that gold-doored dacha. Thanks Eleutheria5.
The poor man evacuated Ghaza and made it forcibly Judenrein. Sorry I don’t feel much compassion for him, especially since he became a born again two-stater only after his bag man son got caught collecting bribes.
Yuck...forgot the details. Very close call.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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No matter, the administration will still treat Israel as the roadblock.
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