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Sharon endorses road map.

Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/05/23/mideast/index.html

A big move towards Peace in the Middle East:D

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  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Don't be so optimistic pnj. I see that Israel couldn't just agree to the Roadmap without some reservations and conditions (unlike the Palestinians) and got the Americans to publicly promise to "address the Israeli concerns" later.

    And what would those concerns be? "The prime minister [of Israel] has objected to the freeze on Jewish settlements demanded by the plan and has also insisted that the Palestinians halt all violence before Israel makes any significant concessions."

    Why oh why is the US government so willing to be publicly humiliated by Israel at any given occasion? Notice how the Roadmap didn't even call for the immediate and permanent dismantlement of all settlements- which is what should be done to guarantee peace, to ensure proper territorial integrity in Palestine and to comply with UN resolutions and international law. The Roadmap simply called for a "freeze" in the building of the settlements. The Palestinians accepted this even though they are seriously being short-changed here. But no, even that wasn't good enough for the greedy, disgusting, butchering Ariel Sharon.

    As for the halt of all violence... well I'm sure that's a genuine concern for the Israelis. As it is for the Palestinians who continue to see an occupying army shooting dead people in their own land at the rate of 8-10 per week for no apparent reason. Yet the Palestinians didn't demand an immediate end to the carnage before accepting the Roadmap.

    And then there is the little issue of the Apartheid Wall of Shame and Evil being currently built across Palestinian land. Not only is the Wall a disgusting reminder of darker times- of which the Israelis should be very familiar with- but the 'cunning' route the Wall is taking means a further 10% of the ever-shrinking Palestinian land will be annexed to Israel.

    Does anyone really think the Roadmap is going to stop trouble if it remains in its current form? What the fuck will it take for the US government to really commit itself to peace in the Middle East and give Israel the kind treatment it reserves for other rogue states until Sharon and his government stop taking the piss and behaving like scumbags and face up to their obligations?
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I just want a Palestinian state declared and then they could work out all of the details. Maybe if there was prosperity, people could get out of those refugee camps and earn some money. I don't understand why Sharon thinks those settlements are going to make Israel safer or maintain its status as a "Jewish state".
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Do you really think that the Israelis are going to give any concessions after a Palestinian State is declared?

    The only reason why Sharon insists on the illegal settlements to stay is because he is a Zionist and believes the whole of the Holy Land belongs to the Jewish race. Go compare the pre-1967 borders with what will remain of Palestine if the evil Wall and the settlements stay for good. It's next to nothing and Sharon will keep trying and trying every trick in the book to annex every last square inch of Palestinian land he can get away with.

    The US government is well aware of this but will not do anything about it. And many Palestinians will continue to queue up to be the next suicide bombers for as long as their dignity and land is taken away from them.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Because pnj, it is a central tenet of the likhudnik platform to not only maintain but exapand settlements. Until you come to realise just how akin to those who once committed attrocities against them and their forebears half a century ago these Likhudniks are toward their target scapegoat ethnic group, you will continue to be confused by your hallowed right wing media pundits as to the real reasons for the failures of previous agreements and the ultimate failure of this one.

    When Israeli's are finally truly fed up with the violence they will do the intelligent thing and put these hardline monsters on trial for the gross and widespread abuses of human rights that they have championed for far too long against a destitute and downtrodden people.

    Then perhaps they will tell the settlers to go to where they immigrated from and cease this open door policy that should have been ended ages ago. An earlier cessation of which might well have prevented the widespread economic crises exacerbated by a runaway population in a land of extremely limited resources.

    Just as the Oslo accords and the Camp David accords actually failed because of the Israeli government's refusal to honour its full and unconditional obligations to cease its occupation of and continual daily assault on Palestinians under the all to easy (since Bush set the precedent with his imperialistic doctrine) claim of eliminating "terrorism".

    Perhaps its time the entire international community spoke with one voice and told Israel once and for that it either ceases this brutal fascist assault or face complete and utter isolation from all economic access. That and an intelligent administration restored in Washington which would similarly throw down the gauntlet on Israeli intransigence might well end the need for this flagrantly sporadic and sensationlistic form of self defence perpetrated by those Palestinians who have finally lost all hope.

    But don't count on the Bush camp, with its hardline zionist members like Richard Perle, Donald Feith, Paul Wolfowitz, et al calling the Middle East policy shots, being the ones to make that future peace settlement a reality.
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