I can't even accept that; how in the hell do you expect a Palestinian to?
"Palestinians want US to serve as proxy in border talks" by Mohammed Daraghmeh, Associated Press | January 21, 2010
RAMALLAH, West Bank - Mahmoud Abbas has proposed that the Obama administration negotiate the final borders of a Palestinian state with Israel, a Palestinian official said yesterday....
It's a nice thought, but I'm looking at this map here....
and considering what Israel has repeatedly said, I can't see it.
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Yeah, that's the only solution I see.
The state would have to be established in the territories Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast War - the West Bank, Gaza, and east Jerusalem - but Palestinians would agree to swap up to 3 percent of the territory to accommodate some Israeli settlements, the aide said....
Then ain't no way this "deal" would ever come off.
It was not clear how the Americans reacted. Meanwhile, Netanyahu said yesterday that Israel must have a presence in the West Bank to stop rockets from being imported even after a peace agreement is achieved - the first time such a demand has been spelled out.
That's the Israelis for you! Always throwing a wrench into the works!
He said the experience of rocket attacks from the Lebanese and Gaza borders means Israel must be able to prevent such weapons from being brought into any future Palestinian state in the West Bank. “We cannot afford to have that across from the center of our country,’’ he told foreign reporters in Jerusalem. “In the case of a future settlement with the Palestinians, this will require an Israeli presence on the eastern side of a prospective Palestinian state.’’
That Netanyahu speaks openly about Palestinian statehood is noteworthy in itself, even if he saddles the talk with caveats....
But when HAMAS DOES IT, it's "terrorists" talking!
Can you FIND a MORE BIASED NEWS SOURCE anywhere in the world other than AmeriKa's Zionist newspapers?
I think not. Even Israel's press is more open than our own, America.
Officials at the US Consulate in Jerusalem, which serves the West Bank, had no comment.
Off the record? We support Israel in everything they do.
And Obama finally acknowledges the obvious:
"Obama says he overreached on Mideast" by Associated Press | January 22, 2010
JERUSALEM - Washington’s Middle East envoy launched a new effort yesterday aimed at restarting Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, just as President Obama expressed pessimism about the prospects.
Already complicating envoy George Mitchell’s mission was a new demand by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel for an Israeli military presence in the West Bank to stop weapons smuggling, even after the formation of a Palestinian state.
Sort of shit in Mitch's face, no, Amurka?
You don't mind Israel doing that to an envoy? Turkey did.
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And that was a while ago.
Mitchell met late yesterday with Netanyahu, whose office released a brief statement saying that they discussed ways to move the peace process forward and that contacts would continue. As Mitchell began his mission, Obama acknowledged that he overreached in the Middle East.
In an interview with Time magazine published yesterday, Obama said internal conflicts made it hard for the Israelis and Palestinians to restart talks, “and I think that we overestimated our ability to persuade them to do so when their politics ran contrary to that.’’
You know those AID CHECKS you have been signing? STOP!
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Oh, I see now; we call that blackmail around here.
He said Israel “found it very hard to move with any bold gestures,’’ while Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas had “Hamas looking over his shoulder.’’
Good thing, too, seeing as Abass is cooperating with USrael.
Obama concluded that “if we had anticipated some of these political problems on both sides earlier, we might not have raised expectations as high.’’
Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever.
Mitchell is to meet with Palestinians in the West Bank today.
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Okay, let's see what came of that:
Man, U.S. policy is loaded with that s*** right now!
Everywhere you turn, FAILURE!
RAMALLAH, West Bank - President Obama’s Mideast envoy failed yesterday to lure Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas back to peace talks with Israel, as Abbas stuck to his insistence that an Israeli settlement freeze come first....
And failed the day before, and will fail the day after.
Washington’s envoy, George Mitchell, who also held talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, is to leave the region over the weekend.... Netanyahu says he is willing to resume talks immediately and contends the Palestinians have set unreasonable preconditions....
Okay, so the PRECONDITIONS ISRAEL HAS SET -- among many, I'm sure -- is KEEPING ALL SETTLEMENTS, NO SHARING of Jerusalem for a capital, and NOW a PRESENCE in the WEST BANK before any negotiations have even begun!!
A statement released later from the prime minister’s office said Netanyahu “stresses again that Israel does not place any preconditions on entering negotiations.
Is he just in denial or outright nuts?
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Yeah, that's them.
The prime minister calls on the leaders of the Palestinian Authority to stop wasting time on talking about how to enter negotiations and sit down for negotiations instead.’’
Guy is UN-BE-LIE-VA-BLE!
However, Abbas aide Saeb Erekat said the onus is on Israel, not the Palestinians.
ABSOLUTELY!
“When we say a settlement freeze that includes Jerusalem, that is not a Palestinian condition,’’ he said. “That is rather an Israeli obligation, and the same thing is applicable to our demand to have negotiations resume where we left them in December 2008.’’
Abbas and Olmert held talks for more than a year. The content of those talks was kept secret and no agreement was made public....
That implies that there was one, doesn't it?
One we don't know about, right (sigh), MSM?
Erekat said Mitchell appealed to Abbas to resume negotiations immediately but the Palestinians disagreed and asked Washington “to have the Netanyahu government drop its conditions.’’
See that snowball entering the gates of hell? About as much chance.
The Palestinians fear that Washington’s failure to get Israel to halt settlement construction bodes ill for its ability as a broker once far tougher issues such as a partition of Jerusalem are on the table.
Our role as a "broker" was shot a long time ago.
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