Yeah OK
Historic change blah blah blah determination to see an end to violence blah blah partners in the peace of the brave blah blah blah:
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas pledged publicly in Sharm e-Sheikh Tuesday to put an end to four years of violence, and in a private meeting, expressed their determination to make these declarations stick this time.
This part's my favorite:
Abbas... stated in Arabic: "We have agreed... on and end to all acts of violence against Palestinians and Israelis, wherever they are."
The entire Palestinian population is with him in his historic decision to stop killing Jews:
Hamas and Islamic Jihad on Tuesday rejected Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's pledge at the Sharm e-Sheikh summit to end years of bloodshed..."The talk about what the leader of the Palestinian Authority called a cessation of acts of violence is not binding on the resistance because this is a unilateral stand and was not the outcome of an intra-Palestinian dialogue as has been agreed previously," Osama Hamdan, the Hamas representative in Lebanon, told The Associated Press.
There's a post to be written about why Hamas has official representatives in Lebanon that are buddy buddy with AP, but that's not this post. This post is about how Palestinians are still determined to kill Jews. But I'm being unfair. Everyone agrees that it's going to be impossible to get the die-hard terrorists to accept a Jewish presence in the Middle East. All we can really hope for is that Abbas will commit the Palestinian Authority, as he promised, to preventing the various Palestinian terrorist groups from attacking Israelis:
In an attempt to calm Hamas, PA Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath denied that the PA had agreed to disarm armed militias. "We didn't talk about disarming the infrastructure of the groups and an intra-Palestinian war," Shaath told al-Jazeera shortly after the Sharm e-Sheikh summit ended.
Sharon is spilling his heart and making historic and unprecedented statements...
Addressing "our Palestinian neighbors," Sharon made clear that Israel has given up its dream of Greater Eretz Yisrael. "I assure you that we have a genuine intention to respect your right to live independently and in dignity," he said. "I have already said that Israel has no desire to continue to govern over you and control your fate. We in Israel have had to awaken from our dreams, painfully"
... and in response the Palestinians are refusing even to disarm terrorists. Let me be clear: the dream of a permanent Jewish presence in large parts of the West Bank and in almost all of the Gaza Strip is unrealistic. It's bad for the local Arab populations and it's arguably worse for the Jews who live there. But it's ironic that Sharon would come to Sharm e-Sheikh - a city that he first visited when he took it over in 1956 - to give away land. How many times do the Arabs get to try to push the Jews into the sea without suffering any consequences? How many times will Israel pull it's head out of the noose, only to be immediately forced to walk back up to the gallows?
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas pledged publicly in Sharm e-Sheikh Tuesday to put an end to four years of violence, and in a private meeting, expressed their determination to make these declarations stick this time.
This part's my favorite:
Abbas... stated in Arabic: "We have agreed... on and end to all acts of violence against Palestinians and Israelis, wherever they are."
The entire Palestinian population is with him in his historic decision to stop killing Jews:
Hamas and Islamic Jihad on Tuesday rejected Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's pledge at the Sharm e-Sheikh summit to end years of bloodshed..."The talk about what the leader of the Palestinian Authority called a cessation of acts of violence is not binding on the resistance because this is a unilateral stand and was not the outcome of an intra-Palestinian dialogue as has been agreed previously," Osama Hamdan, the Hamas representative in Lebanon, told The Associated Press.
There's a post to be written about why Hamas has official representatives in Lebanon that are buddy buddy with AP, but that's not this post. This post is about how Palestinians are still determined to kill Jews. But I'm being unfair. Everyone agrees that it's going to be impossible to get the die-hard terrorists to accept a Jewish presence in the Middle East. All we can really hope for is that Abbas will commit the Palestinian Authority, as he promised, to preventing the various Palestinian terrorist groups from attacking Israelis:
In an attempt to calm Hamas, PA Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath denied that the PA had agreed to disarm armed militias. "We didn't talk about disarming the infrastructure of the groups and an intra-Palestinian war," Shaath told al-Jazeera shortly after the Sharm e-Sheikh summit ended.
Sharon is spilling his heart and making historic and unprecedented statements...
Addressing "our Palestinian neighbors," Sharon made clear that Israel has given up its dream of Greater Eretz Yisrael. "I assure you that we have a genuine intention to respect your right to live independently and in dignity," he said. "I have already said that Israel has no desire to continue to govern over you and control your fate. We in Israel have had to awaken from our dreams, painfully"
... and in response the Palestinians are refusing even to disarm terrorists. Let me be clear: the dream of a permanent Jewish presence in large parts of the West Bank and in almost all of the Gaza Strip is unrealistic. It's bad for the local Arab populations and it's arguably worse for the Jews who live there. But it's ironic that Sharon would come to Sharm e-Sheikh - a city that he first visited when he took it over in 1956 - to give away land. How many times do the Arabs get to try to push the Jews into the sea without suffering any consequences? How many times will Israel pull it's head out of the noose, only to be immediately forced to walk back up to the gallows?
