Posted on 03/26/2002 11:40:00 AM PST by malamute
Gadhafi: Change Israel to ‘Isratine’
Libyan leader proposes new democracy, rejects Saudi plan
DUBAI, March 25 — Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi said Israel should be replaced by a democracy called “Isratine” where unarmed Israelis and Palestinians could live in peace. “If the Jews want peace, they should accept to live in peace and drop arms with their Palestinian brethren,” Gadhafi said in an interview with al-Jazeera satellite television.
GADHAFI, WHO HAS rejected a Saudi Middle East peace bid, said it was “impossible” to create an independent Palestinian state along with Israel because “the Israelis would not accept to live within the range of Palestinian guns.”
Gadhafi put forward his own Middle East peace plan at an Arab summit last year. It included demands for dismantling weapons of mass destruction in the region and the return of 7 million Palestinian refugees.
“The initiatives that have been imposed on Arabs ... resulted in the blood that is being shed,” Gadhafi said, referring to the 18-month Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation.
The Saudi initiative, the top issue on the agenda of the upcoming Arab summit, envisages Arab normalization with the Jewish state in return for full Israeli withdrawal from Arab land occupied during the 1967 Middle East war.
Gadhafi said Israel should also dismantle its weapons of mass destruction and withdraw from occupied Syrian land if it wanted peace with non-Palestinian Arabs.
He does not even question that Palestinians will have guns. But if the state and independence, not the destruction of Israel, is all they want --- why, then, to have guns AFTER the state is created?
Wisdom of the Arab leaders... Works with the Arabs, however -- Middle-Eastern, French, British, and American. About 200,000 of our fellow Americans, I have leanred today from one of the threads, pay $29.95 a month for... al-Jazeera. The American Mislim leaders explain this by the fact that American media is "skewed" --- in contrast to al Jazeera, apparently.
You weak/ pussied out/sob sister Euros are so well known for you love for the MUSLIMS so take them in. For world peace ands the peace of the MidEast.
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This is expensive. My guess if you get a package of other foreign stations too for such a price.
That whole "Kaddafi" spelling thing has bugged me since Reagan was President.
How defenseless were the Arab armies in 1948,1956,1967,1973?
It's to bad your boys could'nt pull off a win and went 0 for 4.
Arab armies have and always will,... SUCK.
BTW...Germany vs. Israel now?.....I'll go with Israel.
And, I suppose that Gadhafi would accept living within the range of an enemy's gun???????
Not so. Jews were/are persecuted the world 'round. (Poland & France come to mind in the WWII context).
My point is that I find all kinds of Arab nations prodding and cheering the Palestinians into battle. But most Arab states oppress their own people brutally. Why don't they start offering democracy and human rights in their own backyards? The answer is because they want to push the Jews out, not have a homeland for Palestinians.
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