Posted on 12/14/2004 4:15:58 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
Perhaps there is hope...
Ya think?
How long till he is assassinated? Seems like he's got a message that a lot of Palestinians don't want to hear.
Look up the meaning of "Hudna." It's a ploy to relax tensions, retrain, resupply, and rearm.
Ok, who has the pig wings?
Nothing but propaganda. Arafat said the same years ago as well. But the sad part is the world buys it again, including the US.
Why does the White House only respond when Abu Mazen says something they like? Numorous times has he said stuff like he wasn't going to fight terrorists or that he supports the right of return, and yet the White House wasn't listening or chose not to recognize he said these things. They are selecting the "good things" they want to hear.
He isn't pulling an Arafat, and saying this to the west, while inciting violence to his people is he?
re:"He isn't pulling an Arafat, and saying this to the west, while inciting violence to his people is he?"
If he's come to a genuine reality check, then Coloradan is right... he'll be dead soon. Some hot-shot purist will do him in.
Abu Mazen does not come out and say that the indiscriminate murders of men, women and children riding buses, eating pizza or drinking coffee is barbaric and evil, only that it was a poor tactical decision.
He's just Arafat with a shave and a shower.
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Duh! He's a keen observer of the obvious.
Clinton receiving a copy of the Koran presented by Chairman Yasser Arafat of the Palestinian Authority in Gaza City, Gaza, December 14.
A public renunciation of short term tactics that have become uncomfortable to the donor nations and nothing more. The administration will have to turn their back on last years comments about the right of "return" and 1949 borders as a condition of talking to the new terrorist leader.
Abbas will demand Palestinian right of return
Interim Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, outlining his views on the conflict with Israel, told parliament on Tuesday that he would follow in Yasser Arafat's footsteps and demand that Israel recognize the "right of return" of Palestinian refugees. He also appeared to send the message that he'll stand tough in future talks with Israel.
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The speech marked the first time since Arafat's death Nov. 11 that Abbas outlined his views on the conflict with Israel. Abbas appeared to be sending a message to Fatah's young guard that he would stand tough in future talks with Israel, despite his pragmatism and opposition to violence.
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Abbas' ideas about a peace deal with Israel have always been close to those of Arafat: a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, with east Jerusalem as a capital, and Israeli recognition of the "right of return" of some four million refugees and their descendants.
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We promise you (Arafat) that our heart will not rest until we achieve the right of return for our people and end the tragic refugee issue
Yes. He's been unwavering in his belief that the destruction of Israel is the final objective. He has disagreed on tactics on occasion. In the context of a "peace process", he likely has a better feeling for manipulating the west than Arafat.
no, no hope.
this guy is not bloodthirsty enough for the pallies.
they will kill him...
too bloodthirsty for Israel, and not enough for the arabs surrounding her.
they do not, in reality WANT an independent Pallie state living side by side with Israel... but a pallie state, in the place of Israel.
the arab/islamist world will NOT stand for this.
Deja vu from the P.A.
Again and again, the Palestinian Authority leaders say for Western consumption that they will put down arms, while in fact they do nothing to stop terrorism and everything to promote it. This guy knows the score. The Palestinians have been whipped into a lather of hate. Under the Oslo Accords, Israel went ahead unilaterally gave the Palestinian Arabs 98.5% of the Israeli land Israel said it would give them under the terms of the agreement. Israel got zilch in return; no peace, as promised, no attempts to put down terrorism, but instead an acceleration by the P.A. of the mass murder of Israelis and visitors to Israel.
one quibble:
"the occupation"
This doesn't refer to "the West Bank and Gaza", it refers to all of Israel. When western "journalists" translate "the occupied territories" as "the West Bank and Gaza", they are full of ****.
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