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2005-03-15 Israel-Palestine

Abbas to announce new stance on right of return

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Posted by Fred 2005-03-15 00:00:00 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Abbas magnanimously says, the right of return of refugees should be looked upon "realistically," and that not all Palestinian exiles will return to former homes in Israel and the territories

He can do as he pleases wrt the Palestinian territories (not that I'd want the denizens of Ein el Hellhole as my neighbors; they aren't house trained). But no returns to Israeli territories. That's been tried already, and those people organize quite a few of the terror attacks deep within Israel.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-03-15 12:33:31 AM|| 2005-03-15 12:33:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 ..and that not all Palestinian exiles will return to former homes in Israel and the territories, Israel Radio said, quoting the London-based Asharq al-Awsat newspaper.

If Mazen was being "realistic", he wouldn't even be talking about a "right of return", because there's no such thing.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-03-15 1:19:19 AM|| 2005-03-15 1:19:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 BaR, if he were truly 'realistic' in his pronouncements, he would be dead the very next morning, if not the next hour. He probably knows that there's no chance, but he may be trying slowly to get the idea, in incremental form, across. It's just a guess, I have no idea what is truly on his mind.

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-03-15 1:32:16 AM|| 2005-03-15 1:32:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 I realize that this does not compute on the cross-wired logic circuits of the group in question, but, uh, starting and then losing wars often has consequences. I'd love to challenge these nitwits, live on TV, to a little exercise to illustrate their detachment from reality.

Try booking a vacation at a Bolivian Pacific coast resort. Follow that up with a hike across the middle of Okinawa, as a civilian Japanese. Round off the exercise by trying to find ethnic German towns in western Poland and parts of the Czech Republic. Starting to get the idea?

Starting and losing wars is always a bad strategy. Persistently starting wars of annihilation and losing, then plumbing new depths of barbarism involving murder of innocents and cultivation of a national cult of racist hatred, is a VERY bad strategy.

Behaving as though the world owes you something, and not with the deep shame of the moral leper and odious criminal that you have become, is pathetic.

Not having been treated as your brother Arabs would have treated you in the same circumstances should be "compensation" enough.

Finish the wall. Import more Asian gastarbeiters and end Palestinian entry into Israel. Tell the religious lunatic settlers they're on their own. Respond to any indirect fire attacks with strikes resulting in 1,000 times the damage of the provocation. Assign some former convict to your UN post and tell him to misbehave, and add CNN to the banned media list. Go about building a vibrant high-tech economy. Are we done yet?

Posted by Verlaine in Iraq 2005-03-15 4:19:19 AM|| 2005-03-15 4:19:19 AM|| Front Page Top

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