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To: SJackson

Maybe they see the establishment of a Palestinian state as the only way to remove, once and for all, any legitimacy from the never ending complaints. I'm trying to hold on to some faint hope here, I know.


13 posted on 10/18/2006 7:47:36 AM PDT by Bahbah (Shalit, Goldwasser and Regev, we are praying for you)
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To: Bahbah
Maybe they see the establishment of a Palestinian state as the only way to remove, once and for all, any legitimacy from the never ending complaints. I'm trying to hold on to some faint hope here, I know.

Look at the founding documents and public statements of both the PLO and Hamas. The state they're after includes Israel. Jordan too. The current iniative for a state is simply to gain a platform to mobilize Arab forces for another attack. It's official PLO policy, has been for over 30 years. BTW, 5 and 6, the unification with Jordan doesn't necessarily have to be peaceful.

Political Programme, Adopted at the 12th Session of the Palestinian National Council, Cairo, June 9, 1974

1- To reaffirm the Palestine Liberation Organization's previous attitude to Resolution 242, which obliterates the national right of our people and deals with the cause of our people as a problem of refugees. The Council therefore refuses to have anything to do with this resolution at any level, Arab or international, including the Geneva Conference.

2-The Liberation Organization will employ all means, and first and foremost armed struggle, to liberate Palestinian territory and to establish the independent combatant national authority for the people over every part of Palestinian territory that is liberated. This will require further changes being effected in the balance of power in favour of our people and their struggle.

3-The Liberation Organization will struggle against any proposal for a Palestinian entity the price of which is recognition, peace, secure frontiers, renunciation of national rights and the deprival of our people of their right to return and their right to self-determination on the soil of their homeland.

4-Any step taken towards liberation is a step towards the realization of the Liberation Organization's strategy of establishing the democratic Palestinian state specified in the resolutions of previous Palestinian National Councils.

5-Struggle along with the Jordanian national forces to establish a Jordanian-Palestinian national front whose aim will be to set up in Jordan a democratic national authority in close contact with the Palestinian entity that is established through the struggle.

6-The Liberation Organization will struggle to establish unity in struggle between the two peoples and between all the forces of the Arab liberation movement that are in agreement on this programme.

7-In the light of this programme, the Liberation Organization will struggle to strengthen national unity and to raise it to the level where it will be able to perform its national duties and tasks.

8-Once it is estabished, the Palestinian national authority will strive to achieve a union of the confrontation countries, with the aim of completing the liberation of all Palestinian territory, and as a step along the road to comprehensive Arab unity. The Liberation Organization will strive to strengthen its solidarity with the socialist countries, and with forces of liberation and progress throughout the world, with the aim of frustration all the schemes of Zionism, reaction and imperialism.

9-In light of this programme, the leadership of the revolution will determine the tactics which will serve and make possible the realization of these objectives.

20 posted on 10/18/2006 8:01:36 AM PDT by SJackson (A vote is like a rifle, its usefulness depends upon the character of the user, T. Roosevelt)
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