Posted on 03/11/2008 8:25:33 PM PDT by jhpigott
CAIRO (AFP) - The Arab-Israeli peace process is a hair's breadth from failure following Israel's decision to build more settlements in annexed east Jerusalem, the Arab League's said on Tuesday.
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"We are a hair's breadth or less from announcing the failure of the peace process, given its evolution," league secretary general Amr Mussa was quoted as saying by the official MENA news agency on Tuesday.
"The peace process is heading for failure because of Israel's lack of desire for peace," he said after Israel unveiled plans for a new settlement in annexed east Jerusalem and for hundreds of new Jewish homes in the occupied West Bank.
The move triggered a chorus of world criticism and warnings it would hamper efforts to restart faltering peace talks.
Settlement activity on occupied Palestinian land sends "a strong message" that "Israel doesn't want peace because it is building settlements to try and change the demographic and geographic situation on the ground," Mussa said.
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas "has shown the Palestinian desire to achieve peace, but we find that the Israeli response is negative," he added.
"We may take a decision on the peace process in the coming weeks because in its current state it is a dead letter."
The Palestinians have said the settlement activity will shatter efforts to relaunch the peace process that has been largely stagnant since it was revived in late November.
I see, building houses on land that should be Judenfrei is BAAAAAAAD...but murdering religious students, raining rockets down on innocent civilians, blowing up buses and cafes, etc. is fine.
You know what, people who think like that are so f’ed up that the concept of “peace” that they hold is nothing at all like the one to which rational and decent Westerner’s subscribe. In fact, their own religious document talks of peace as only a means of regrouping while your enemy is lulled to sleep. If that’s what peace is, then who needs it.
Good. Now get rid of those damned islamists in Israel.
if this peace process was relevant the State Department underlings would not have ordered Condi Rice to undertake it.
this was never ever every supposed to succceed. It is just to keep the lame ducks busy.
Sounds like pabulum worthy of world consumption.
I would say it is a good deal beyond a failure and well past futile.
Couldn't have anything to do with the Palis continuing to try to kill random Israelis with unguided rockets fired from Gaza, could it.
Why not just encourage a little more of that, then when the Joose defend themselves, declare the "Peace Process" dead and it as their fault.
Ash Hats.
GOOD!!!!!!
And that is indeed a very good thing - actually the notion of an "Arab-Israeli peace process" is for Israel to just bend over, drop its pants and hold on to their ankles while the Arabs f*** them over, only this time they are doing it willingly & voluntarily to themselves for the sake of the "Arab-Israeli peace process".
Same old playbook against Israel for generations & centuries now.
I'm sick & tired of Israel having to make concessions while the Pali-terrorists do absolutely nothing except breed, indoctrinate and create more terror in the world, and do nothing to keep their grand promises to stop terror!!!
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They would know, essentially the road map is their plan
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