[JohnHuang2]

Tuesday, July 2, 2002

Quote of the Day by Southack

[r9etb]

Farah somehow assumes that there is a choice about whether or not there can be a Palestinian state. There isn't. There are too many Palestinians there. Nobody's going to allow them to be deported, and a long-term Israeli occupation is both too expensive, and too politically damaging. A Palestinian state is a foregone conclusion.

The only remaining question is whether it is possible to guide the de facto Palestinian state into some form of civilized behavior. We have the means, and thus the responsibility, to try to make this happen.

[moodyskeptic]

I agree that the Rose Garden speech back-burners the Pali state issue, it sets the bar so high that it guarantees we won't have to involve ourselves with Pali state building, while sounding like we are anxious to begin the process. To worry that US taxpayers will be tapped to build a Pali state ignores the fact that they will NEVER come close to agreeing with the conditions outlined.

GWB bought himself a ticket out of the thicket. The USA now has plausable deniability.

[robertpaulsen]

"Here's what President Bush should have said: The U.S. will support no more discussions or negotiations regarding the creation of a Palestinian state until all terrorism against Israel ends. Period. End of story."

GW used the carrot and stick approach; Mr. Farah prefers the stick only. His opinion.

Did the U.S. support discussions or negotiations regarding the creation of a Palestinian state before Arafat's terrorism against Israel started? It seems to me that we have already "yielded to terrorism" by negotiating only after the violence had begun.

[monday]

I'm with Farrah on this one. Getting rid of Arafat won't change much I am afraid. If Hamas takes over, is Bush still going to insist on a Palistinian state?

What Hamas and Islamic Jahaid do has always been more important than the incoherent ramblings and lies of Arafat. He has always been the mouth piece of the Palistinians, but since he seems to have litte control over them, and always lies about his true intentions anyway, he is mostly irrelevant.

I don't understand why anyone gives him the time of day?