Posted on 11/21/2010 2:05:02 PM PST by Eleutheria5
RAMALLAH, West Bank -The Obama administration's troubled attempt to revive Mideast peace talks took another blow Sunday when the Palestinian president rejected the latest U.S. plan to get the sides talking again. Mahmoud Abbas said a proposed 90-day freeze on Israeli settlement construction wouldn't get him back to the negotiating table unless it includes east Jerusalem, a condition Israel staunchly opposes. Palestinians claim east Jerusalem for their future capital. For decades, Israel has built Jewish sections around the city's periphery, and about 200,000 Jews live there now. Palestinians consider the large neighborhoods as illegal settlements. The impasse highlights the gaps the U.S. must bridge — not to just to achieve a peace deal, but even to get the sides to sit down and talk about one.
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Jerusalem is a “settlement”?
How long does a city have to exist before it is no longer a “settlement”?
The answer my friend, is blowin’ in the wind...
Well played.
Jerusalem was the capital of Israel when
indigenous South American Indians were eating each other.
Jerusalem came along before Al Gore invented the internet too (even though he insists it didn’t).
It's the ONE city the Jews can claim as their own and there is no rational argument that says they can't.
Just because some hashish fogged Muslim fantasy writer wrote that Mohammed rode his horse Barrack from there to paradise—or they stuck some stupid mosque right on top of The Temple of Solomon like planting a flag on conquered territory—Jerusalem AIN”T MUSLIM!!!
The PLO never cared about construction in Jerusalem until Obama made it an issue.
Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, it’s NOT a settlement; that’s danged enemy of israel statements when they pull such nonsense.
Why is it Isreal is always expected to give someyhing up to get these talks gpoing. What have the frigging muslims and their terrorists armies ever given up. Peace talks are just pure bull shit. Isreal should wait til the next time they are attacked thin burn a 20 mile swath along its borders and kill anyone that enters it. For the last forty years the US has been spending billions to keep these two from kilñling each other and there is no sign that it is working, stop paying the tributes and get it over with.
And so it begins.
Jerusalem —a Settlement? Muslim marauders on the move-—nothing is permanent - they invade, loot, destroy and then move on.
They are definitely moving into the New World on Barack’s back.
the Palestinian president rejected the latest U.S. plan to get the sides talking again. Mahmoud Abbas said a proposed 90-day freeze on Israeli settlement construction wouldn't get him back to the negotiating table unless it includes east JerusalemThanks Eleutheria5. Hey, this worked for him before -- Israel voluntarily froze construction for twelve months, Abbas ignored it for ten without any consequences from Zero, other than to see him try to humiliate PM Netanyahu.
Abbas should not be insisting on anything. He should be begging not to get a Hellfire missile up his butt.
I don’t know why any decent human being is “negotiating” with this old terrorist in the first place.
You can no more negotiate with a terrorist than you can bargain with a rabid dog.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Abbas should not be insisting on anything. He should be begging not to get a Hellfire missile up his butt.
A close friend of mine just started his own business, making landmines that look like prayer rugs.
It's doing very well. He says Prophets are going through the roof.
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