Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday invited the Palestinians to sit down immediately to talk peace, but the Palestinian leader rebuffed the call.
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from:msnbc.comIsrael's Netanyahu invites Abbas to talk peace
Seeded on Sun Jul 12, 2009 2:30 PM EDT (msnbc.com)
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Abbas won't even talk-- a real strong gesture toward peace!
The settlements are illegal. The Israelis demand the Palestinians renounce violence and accept their right to rule territory taken by force as a precondition to peace talks. You think THEY want peace?
Israel said it would stop construction if the palestinians reign in militants. Why should Israel be the only side that has to abide by the agreement? By not cracking down on militants you say one of two things, A. you are incapable of stopping them, which means that you are incapable of controlling the people you govern. B. you have no real interest in stopping the militants as they serve a role in your overall agenda. Either way, if militants are free to do what they please with relative autonomy from the palestinian authority, Israel does not have a real partner for peace.
You see any bombs raining down on Seoul?
I hope not, I used to know some pretty fine hookers from Seoul when I was in Korea
I haven't been in Santa Monica since I was a kid, do they still have Pacific Ocean Park there ??
Treat Apartheid Israel the way the World community treated Apartheid South Africa, and see the concessions Israel makes to the Palestinians. We have to get the AIPAC Monkey off our backs. The question is : Will Obama risk angering American Jews for the sake of his Muslim Brothers?
The missing piece in this article is Hamas. Since formation in the 80's the relationships between Hamas, Fatah and Israel has been complex and ever changing. US Intelligence was caught with their trousers down when Hamas won the election, we had no idea how much the Palestinian streets like Hamas, mainly because of the corruption of Fatah under Arafat. Now that Fatah seems the moderate, Netanyahu is negotiating but in a cautious way. He needs reassurance that violence will cease. Recent history has shown that when the Israeli's pull out of Palestinian territories, there is no peace. The Palestinians (Fatah anyway) have to give up something. Getting back the land their Arab brothers lost for them is not a "give", it is only a "take". And I don't think you will see Fatah disarm, as they would likely be more threatened by Hamas than the IDF.
No seperate Palestinian state. They can live side by side and be given citizenship to Israel. We don't have seperate states for groups in the United States.
There are thousands of Arabs with Israeli citizenship, some who protest the treatment of Palestinians from withing the Israeli Border, but through civilized methods. The Israeli Arabs are civilized, as opposed to many Palestinians living in the West bank and Gaza who want nothing but the destruction of Israel. They cannot be let in.
more like 1 million Israeli arabs. Israels population of 6.7M, 19% of which is arabs which hold Israeli citizenship
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Thank you for the info, I wasn't quite sure on the numbers. I just wanted to make the point. Enjoy!
Talk, talk, talk, build settlements, kill palestinians, that's what we hear from the Israelis side oh I forgot also cry that nobody beleive them that they want peace but the arabs do not and they are only good to be killed and wiped out. For more than 50 years this was what we witness, can their be any change???
Netanyahu is playing a very serious game here! He appears to have no intention of stopping the building of settlements. But yet he tries to engage in the peace process, knowing that the Palestinians will rebuff his offer, and hoping it will keep the U.S. and the rest of the world off guard and off his back so he can continue business as usual. It will probably backfire on him before too long.
No. As a matter of fact there hasn't. The treaty signed by the north and south in (1953?) was a ceasefire, not a peace treaty. The two countries have been and are to this day still at war, and the DMZ between the two Koreas reamains the most contested, and most heavily guarded border between any two countries in the entire world.
I think Netanyahu is making the right "political" move by claiming to be in favor of peace talks, but this is all a sham. Neither side has any real interest in pursuing peace as neither side is interested in meeting each others demands for it.
You do have one excellent point though Bob. End theocracies and peace will follow. In many more places than just the M.E. perhaps not the Korea's, but its definately the right first step!