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To: kattracks
He said the United States ought to pressure Israel into making gestures of support to Arafat

Should we do this before or after the next palestinian animal goes off with a bomb strapped to their waist?

20 posted on 04/02/2002 12:13:01 PM PST by paul51
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To: paul51
He said the United States ought to pressure Israel into making gestures of support to Arafat

Obviously Mr. Farrakhan has conviently chosen to overlook two very important, and highly relevent, historical occurrences.

First - the Oslo Accords. Provided direct Palestinian rule, under nominal Israeli suzerenty but without military occupation, over the Gaza Strip and portions of the West Bank. It also called for the eventual control of over half of the West Band by the Palestinians. It created the Palestinian Authority (PA). It is accepted by Arafat as a "state" in the international sense - the beginning of a Palestinian homeland.

Second - the meeting between Israel and Arafat where Barak gave the Palestinians around 90% of everything they asked for in negotations regarding land, self-rule, etc. Yassir turned it down flat.

Now both of those don't even go to the fact that terrorist activities were going on BEFORE June 1967, when Israel occupied the West Bank in the first instance as a result of the Six-Day War. JORDAN, not Israel, controlled the West Bank at that time, and Israel was within the borders Arafat "claims" to want, yet terrorist activities were going on.

Farrakhan is on a fool's errand. But it is designed to give credibility to the Palestinian terrorists while lowering the status of the Israelis. On that, he could succeed.

23 posted on 04/02/2002 12:19:37 PM PST by Chairman_December_19th_Society
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