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Israel Sets Peace Deadline, OKs Palestinian Aid Plan
2006-05-11
Israel set a peace deadline for the Palestinians yesterday to become negotiating partners by the end of the year or else the government will move ahead with a plan to fix the borders on its own terms.
Another deadline to come and go.
Also, Israel accepted a decision by major Middle East peace brokers to resume some aid payments to the Palestinians — a move that could ease intense economic pressure on the Hamas-led government. The Quartet of international mediators — the United States, Russia, European Union and the United Nations — agreed on Tuesday to create the new mechanism for funnelling funds to the Palestinians and will run it for a three-month trial period. The Hamas-led government said it appreciated the Quartet’s efforts to ease the burden on the Palestinian people but said they could have gone further, and in a statement criticized the fact that its own authority was likely to be bypassed. “We were hoping that their decision could be more positive in dealing with the Palestinian government since it is an elected government that represents the Palestinian people.”

The move follows fears expressed by some Quartet members that more pressure on the Hamas-led administration could cause the Palestinian government to collapse, unleashing a deeper humanitarian and security crisis in the West Bank and Gaza.
Posted by:Fred

#4  It's a type of Honey Trap, by making things look a little better the israelis hope to get all the bad eggs in one basket (Then drop the basket)
Get them in a place that's hard to get out of, such as a fenced in, wall bordred, artillery plotted, and no retreat possible small hole.

Sounds wonderful.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2006-05-11 21:48  

#3  I'm continually amazed at the stupidity of the Israeli government. Just when they have 'em where they want 'em, with the terrorist led government about to collapse, (despite the land giveaway debacle by a misguided and ill Sharon) what do they do? Start subsidizing them again. Un-f*cking-believable.
Posted by: mcsegeek1   2006-05-11 11:15  

#2  From an article I posted here yesterday. It sounds like they mean it.

Olmert said he intends to pull Jewish settlers out of heavily populated Palestinian areas in the West Bank while fortifying major settlement blocs and retaining the West Bank's Jordan River Valley. He said Israel prefers to negotiate, but would act on its own if Hamas didn't moderate.

Olmert originally had set a 2010 deadline for the pullback, but a top aide said last month that Israel planned to conclude the process before the end of President Bush's term in 2008.

Ramon said it wouldn't take more than 18 to 24 months. "I would like to believe that by the end of 2008 we will be deployed on a line that will signify Israel's final borders."
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-05-11 08:00  

#1  GOOD, hope ISRAEL means it. The ball is now wid HAMAS, the PA, and the Pals. people - these either work wid ISRAEL, or be ready to become future Iranian-conrolled satraps/provinces and Shias, whether Pals. Sunnis like it or not.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2006-05-11 02:44  

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