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| Arafat: Road map dead; Israel to blame | ||
| 2003-09-03 | ||
| JPost - Reg Req’d Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on Wednesday was quoted as saying that the U.S.-backed "road map" for Middle East peace is dead and that Israel is to blame. Tap Tap....surprise meter was supposed to’ve been fixed dammit Foreign Ministry spokesman David Saranga dismissed Arafat’s comments, saying the road map never got off the ground because the Palestinians did not fulfill their first requirement — dismantling the terror infrastructure. Don’t let facts get in the way of Arafat’s denials "Unfortunately, the Palestinian side never carried out the first step called for by the road map," Saranga said. The plan, launched June 4, calls on Israel and the Palestinian Authority to end nearly three years of violence and envisions the establishment of a Palestinian state by 2005. The plan has been stalled for several weeks because of renewed fighting and a deadlock between Israel and the Palestinians on the dismantling of armed groups. Israel has accused Arafat of getting in the way of the road map and trying to undermine his prime minister, the U.S.-backed Mahmoud Abbas, at every turn. accused? Abbas says the same thing Saranga said Israel remains committed to the road map. In order to move the process forward, Saranga said Israel has taken a number of confidence-building measures over the last few months such as the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners — intended to ease life for the Palestinian population, even though these were not called for in the road map. At the same time, he said, the Palestinians have not done what they were obligated to do.
then his lips fell off "We want the road map to stay on the table, and we want the implementation of the road map," Erekat said. especially while we regroup and rearm and recruit The latest escalation was set off by a Hamas bus bombing in Jerusalem in mid-August that killed 21 people, including six children. Since then, 16 Palestinians - 11 terrorists and five bystanders - have been killed in helicopter strikes in the Gaza Strip. After the first of the strikes, which killed Hamas leader Ismail Abu Shanab, Hamas and other militant Palestinian groups announced that they were cancelling their self-declared cease-fire. Again — this is the part the AP inserted — ....the ceasefire exploded on the bus, and only a willful appeaser and apologist of the Paleo terrorists would say otherwise | ||
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #4 God, TGA! I WISH! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-9-3 6:42:59 PM |
| #3 Wrong headline: "Arafat dead, roadmap to blame." Please correct! |
| Posted by: True German Ally 2003-9-3 6:01:00 PM |
| #2 "We want the road map to stay on the table, and we want the implementation of the road map," Erekat said. The answer is very, very, SIMPLE. Break Hamas and the other various terrorist organizations, and the pressure will then be on Israel to honor their end of the bargain. Simple as that. All these assholes like Erekat and Arafat keep doing is blaming Israel for problems that arise because Palestinian power-holders are unwilling to honor their side of the agreements. Very SIMPLE. So WHY does anyone even bother with this repetitive runaround? |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-9-3 4:07:52 PM |
| #1 That road map has a dead end on it with his name on a stone. |
| Posted by: Yosemite Sam 2003-9-3 2:10:09 PM |