Posted on 07/24/2003 7:37:59 AM PDT by yonif
NEW YORK - Contrary to media reports that the Bush Road Map proposes to create a Palestinian Arab state in the year 2005, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) points out that the plan, in fact, calls for establishing such a state within five months, by the end of this year.
"Phase II" of the Road Map plan, which is defined as ending in December 2003, includes "creation of an independent Palestinian state with provisional borders". Those "provisional" borders are to become "final, permanent" borders in Phase III of the plan, which is defined as ending in 2005.
ZOA National President Morton A. Klein said: "Many media reports have erroneously stated that the Bush plan is to create a Palestinian Arab state in 2005. This has lulled some people into a false sense of security, thinking that there will be two more years in which Palestinian Arab actions can be assessed before the final step of statehood is taken. In fact, the Bush plan is to create a state by the end of this year-- long before it will be possible to determine if the Palestinian Arabs are sincerely fighting terrorism and ready to live in peace with Israel. We urge the Bush administration, the Israeli government, and the Quartet to postpone any decision regarding Palestinian Arab statehood until at least 2005 so there will be time to see if the Palestinian Arabs have really given up terrorism."
Registered here within hours of each other, huh?
I think someone better do something about that slimy trail leading from LF to here. Must be a hole in the fence or something.
I'll answer that question as soon as you tell me if you're still beating your wife or not.
LOL Clinton Was Impeached
Since Jul 20, 2003
You really wanted the screen name LOL Clinton Was Acquitted but you figured the Viking Kittens wouldn't let that one last very long.
What's wrong bud, did someone shut down your nice NAZI hollocaust denying site, leaving you with no place to play?
You know...
It's too bad we can't discuss this issue without throwing-out nasty insults like this. It sounds just like the liberals who scream "RACIST" anytime we (Republicans) try
to address issues containing racial aspects.
All it does is stifle debate.
53 posted on 07/24/2003 10:33 AM PDT by LOL Clinton Was Impeached
This person couldn't understand why Israel had troops in the West Bank despite years of suicide bombings.
This person wouldn't undestand why Israel would destroy homes of terrorist's families or the terrorist bomb making facilites.
This person couldn't understand why Israel made strategic strikes against Palestinians, as if the targets were just innocent men destroyed for no reason at all.
This person couldn't professed not to understand why there was a need for checkpoints, even after years of suicide bombers.
This person attempted to cast Israel as treating the Palestinians worse than anyone else, completely ignoring Jordan's problems and ractions with and to them.
This person attempted to rewrite the events of 1967, casting Israel as the agressor.
This person attempted to caste Jews circa 1948 as a terrorist group, failing to mention any negative activity by the other side.
Not only could this person not understand Israel's moves here, he cast them as the evil party in each case.
Let's remember something here. Israel could destroy the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza any time they liked. Instead of doing so, they have made reasonable efforts to grant autonomy to them.
Israel is not perfect. It is also nothing near the nemesis this individual seeks to cast it as. It think it's pretty clear what the mindset is here, and if outing that mindset is offensive to you, I'm not sorry.
The Viking Kittens are hungry. It's time to give them some chow.
A lie? See for yourself:
CIA training PA antiterror force
The United States has delivered 300 million dollars to the Palestinian "Security" Apparatus
Egypt we do give arms too, and Saudi Arabia. Both do not deserve a penny. Saudi Arabia is a fuedal kingdom and a major human rights abuser. We should have no more dealings with the Saudis.
So why do you start off bashing aid to Israel and not aid to these terror sponsoring state?
2. So it is ok to pay for a military occupation that infuriates the Arab world? The destabilizing influence of the Israel-Palestinian Conflict generates a lot of anger, which fills recruiting offices for all kinds of radical terror networks.
Tell me something, what is your definition of "occupation" or is it that you don't really have one, because you are just echoing Arab propaganda?
I do not think Iraq was a direct threat at all.
Did you think Afghanistan was a direct thread on Sept. 10 2001?
The Balfour Declaration has nothing to do with the Stern Gang and the terrorism of 1945-1948.
Terrorism? Please can you list Jewish terrorism?
Israel and her Lebanese puppets have killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and Lebanese.
They have killed mostly PLO terrorists or Hizbullah terrorists, or are they in your book "freedom fighters"?
Israel has led massacres into refugee camps--Sabra and Shatilla where they surrounded the camp while the Phalangists did the dirty work.
How did Israel lead it, if your saying the Phalangists went in there?
That was Sharon who came up with that plan.
Do you have evidence?
What about the political rights of the Palestinians who live in the west bank? What about constant assassinations, bulldozing homes, checkpoints, etc.
Israel is waging a war on terrorism. Want to talk about the "Palestinians" and their political rights? You yourself said Israel is occupying them, so why should they give them political rights in a system they are not part of, as you say? The "Palestinians" answer to the Palestinian Authority. Assasinations and buldozing, checkpoints are all in response to terrorism.
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