Israeli Cabinet Approves Peace Deal

Reuters ^ | Sun May 25, 2003 08:34 AM ET | Reuters Staff

[Eric Esot]

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon won cabinet approval Sunday for a U.S.-backed peace "road map" that includes a historic call to establish a Palestinian state by 2005, Israel Radio said.

Overcoming opposition from far-right ministers and members of his own Likud party, Sharon pushed the proposal through the cabinet by a vote of 12-7 with four abstentions, the radio reported.

Under pressure from Washington, Sharon Friday reluctantly accepted the plan, the most ambitious Middle East peace drive since he took office 26 months ago.

"The time has come to divide this piece of land between us and the Palestinians," Sharon said in the Yedioth Ahronoth daily, without indicating how much occupied territory Israel would be prepared to relinquish.

The stage is now set for a possible Israeli-Palestinian summit attended by President Bush and for taking the first steps in the plan, such as a Palestinian crackdown on militants and the uprooting of some Jewish settlement outposts.

[Eric Esot]

[DTA]

Israeli Cabinet Approves Peacemeal (destruction of Israel) would be more appropriate title.

Netanyahu abstained.

"sugarcoated cyanide pill" is my favorite line for today.

[Hugin]

Israelis screwed up big time going for Sharon over Bibi.

[STD]

Let's see who shows up to confirm the covenant. M.Abbas? BJ Clinton, Peres or maybe Javier Angelo Solana. Heaven only knows? Sorta like a real ulgy traffic accident in slow motion.

[STD]

Let's see who shows up to confirm the covenant. M.Abbas? BJ Clinton, Peres or maybe Javier Angelo Solana. Heaven only knows? Sorta like a real ugly traffic accident in slow motion.

[zarf]

Nonsense. This may well be the beginning of the end for the Palies. I trust Bush will bring this to a head.

There may well be a civil war within Israel and "Palestine" in order to cleanse each side of the radicals. Bush is a serious guy and I expect he won't suffer BS.

[Slings and Arrows]

IIRC from an earlier thread, the Israeli Cabinet approved the Roadkill with several modifications (such as the Palies dropping the so-called "right of return"). No modifications, no deal. Gee, ya don't think Reuters is letting its bias show, do ya?

[VOYAGER]

Overcoming opposition from far-right ministers and members of his own Likud party, Sharon pushed the proposal through the cabinet by a vote of 12-7 with four abstentions, the radio reported.

Under pressure from Washington, Sharon Friday reluctantly accepted the plan, the most ambitious Middle East peace drive since he took office 26 months ago.

"The time has come to divide this piece of land between us and the Palestinians," Sharon said in the Yedioth Ahronoth daily, without indicating how much occupied territory Israel would be prepared to relinquish.

All the above and all the platitudes puked up by the liberals and other haters of the Jewish Nation are worthless and will only continue to result in innocent Jewish blood being shed unless and until the murdering heathen Hamas and like Jewish murdering organizations are completely obliterated.

What don't the murdering liberal socialists in this nation and in the rest of the world understand about how God will not allow the Jews to give this land, that He gave to them in perpetuity at any price or grandiose plan of any description, to anyone and especially the children of Ismael?

How can they give up the land that God gave them, again in perpetuity, when it's God's land and no one else's to give away.

The Jews do not have the power nor God's permission to even offer it, literally it is out of the Jews hands completely!

So the world and all its denizens need to get over it!

[Kingasaurus]

"Nonsense. This may well be the beginning of the end for the Palies."

I actually agree. There's no real downside for Israel agreeing to this thing, because if they feel the Arabs aren't holding up their end, they can just let the tanks roll all over again, with another "I told you so."

If the Palestinians clean up their act, then Israel gets what it wants. If they can't clean up their act, they still aren't going to succeed at destroying Israel no matter how hard they try. Sharon has no obligation to follow any road map unless the other side does the same.

Even if Israel's enemies actually had a chance of destroying them, I'm pretty sure our military would be there to make sure it didn't happen. Am I going out on a limb there? :)

I know Israel can't base it's foreign policy on the idea that another country is going to come in and help them guarantee victory in the event of a war they could (hypothetically) lose, but the Arabs need to get it through their thick skulls that Israel isn't going away, and pretending you can actually accomplish that is a waste of your time.

[grania]

Question: Do Palestinians working in Israel get the same salaries and the same benefits as Jewish employees do for the same job? Do they have the same opportunities for advancement?

[Michael81Dus]

Why do you guys (and I think of most here) always think of the worst case? Let´s have trust! I don´t even think of a real war in MidEast now! I don´t even wanna think of that! Israel´s security is not under any circumstances discussable.

[Michael81Dus]

Palestinians work in Israel? Since when? /sarcasm off
Let´s face it, the very most Palestinians are jobless, they send 1 (!) member to the Knesset , it´s time that something changes and the Palestinians get the chance to prove themselves as a democratic nation in the MidEast, respecting the borders and living peacefully with their neighbours.

[Words]

Nonsense. This may well be the beginning of the end for the Palies. I trust Bush will bring this to a head.

Or to legs...

There may well be a civil war within Israel and "Palestine" in order to cleanse each side of the radicals.

Don't you think this line of yours is a little silly?

Bush is a serious guy and I expect he won't suffer BS.

He already does...
In view of the road map business Washington does look phony about Afghanistan, Iran...

[Words]

Let´s face it, the very most Palestinians are jobless,

Wouldn't say that.

they send 1 (!) member to the Knesset,

Knesset of 1999 had 13 arab members including Husnia Jebara, the first arab woman.

it´s time that something changes and the Palestinians get the chance to prove themselves as a democratic nation in the MidEast, respecting the borders and living peacefully with their neighbours.

1) Palestinians aren't a nation.They're generic arabs. Like being Sinai bedouins doesn't make them a Sinai nation.
2) They have a parliament of their own and it isn't Knesset.
3) There're no borders.

[zarf]

Don't you think this line of yours is a little silly?

No.

[Words]

Don't you think this line of yours is a little silly?

No.

OK
Your line:
There may well be a civil war within Israel and "Palestine" in order to cleanse each side of the radicals.
Aside from the non-original approach that every jew, concerned with his or her future, is a "radical" - which makes american republicans and all Bush supporters radicals too and a good democrat of you - you don't take into account israeli military training and weapons handling superiority.
Israelis will organise themselves immediately along the army structure lines and beat the living crap out of "palistanians".
Does it take to be a State Department employee not to understand that?

[zarf]

I don't think you get my drift. A "civil war" in Israel might come about between the right wing Brooklynites that have been paid to move to the settlements and the Israeli gov't attempt to shut down the settlements to meet any future obligations of roadmap compliance.

The Palestinian's will face the same dilema in having to shut down the wackos of Hammas , Jihad etc....

The former, I believe, can be accomplished. I am skeptical that the latter will be.