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Israel-Palestine
Mubarak Wants Mideast Talks to Continue Despite Attacks
2005-01-17
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said yesterday Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon should not react to acts of Palestinian violence by scrapping peace talks.
That's what they always recommend, and there are always more attacks, aren't there?
"Experience says that it will never be possible that we can go on with negotiations if we say that all violence must stop," Mubarak said at a joint news conference with Chilean President Ricardo Lagos. Sharon has said he will not meet new Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas until he moves against militant groups behind an attack that killed six Israelis in Gaza last week. They had been expected to meet to discuss security coordination in the run-up to a planned Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and a possible revival of peace talks. Mubarak praised the approach of assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, whose policy was to fight violence as if there were no peace talks and talk peace regardless of violence.
But... ummm... he's dead now, isn't he? I mean, bumped off by an assassin?
"That's why I call on Prime Minister Sharon that he must go on with the peace process," he said. Mubarak also said in remarks published yesterday that peace between Israel and Syria was harder to achieve under Sharon than his predecessors.
That's why his predecessors all achieved it and he didn't, you know...
Syria said in December it wanted peace talks with Israel over the occupied Golan Heights to resume without any preconditions, but Israel said it opposed peace talks while Syria hosted Palestinian militant groups in Damascus.
Posted by:Fred

#11  Lol - I get it, Pappy... ;-)
Posted by: .com   2005-01-17 3:17:17 PM  

#10  "Hamas? I thought you said hummus!" - Abu Mazen
Posted by: Pappy   2005-01-17 3:13:46 PM  

#9  Fred - yeah, they'd be chickpeas, heh.
Posted by: .com   2005-01-17 12:42:43 PM  

#8  Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said yesterday Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon should not react to acts of Palestinian violence by scrapping peace talks.

Israel Severs Ties as PA Security Implicated in Attack

Preliminary results of an IDF and Israel Port Authority inquiry show that the terrorists were given forged entry permits and granted entry to the Karni facility by members of the PA security force.

The question is who can one talk to? Abbas carries in true Arafat tradition of blaming Hammas while supporting them.
Posted by: Gleretle Spoger1997   2005-01-17 12:35:13 PM  

#7  Peas in the Middle East is an illusion...
Posted by: Fred   2005-01-17 11:02:46 AM  

#6  than canna green giants not caster a shadow... is it a vampire vegetable?
Posted by: half   2005-01-17 10:48:29 AM  

#5  Love the graphic with this entry, it was one of my favorite tee-shirts.
"Visualize Whirled Peas"
Any luck with "Stop the Violins"? (Maybe the international "no" circle with slash over a violin....
Posted by: Sgt. Mom   2005-01-17 10:24:23 AM  

#4  Please don't go along with this. It is a justification of the use of terrorism for attaining statehood. The Pallies have to do something-FOR ONCE. Let them get control of themselves before the US proceeds with the Road Map.

I hope decisionmakers realize that working with the Pallies when they have satisfied nothing in their part of the Road Map-no confidence building, no crackdown on terrorists-will be considered a betrayal by those who voted for an alternative vision to that of Kerry and the Euros. That group lives by these beliefs: suicide bombers are to be negotiated with (not killed off) as legitimiate political partners. There is no act too horrific, no political party too bloodstained that they can't call them friends.

This is not the vision this administration began with (and correctly so); don't screw it up now.
Posted by: Jules 187   2005-01-17 9:54:44 AM  

#3  Abbas -- and Fatah -- are too scared of Hamas and IJ and their own al-Aqsa snuffies to try and do anything about them. They have visions of suicide boomers showing up at their own meetings.
Posted by: Fred   2005-01-17 9:53:31 AM  

#2  Mubarak already has a lot of leverage on Abbas. If Israel does what Mubarak says he wants, it increases Mubarak's leverage. Assuming Mubarak really wants an end to the Palestinian terrorism, it would make sense to increase Mubarak's leverage.
Posted by: mhw   2005-01-17 9:35:17 AM  

#1  Honestly now, who cares what Mubarak wants or thinks? Mubarak is the Head Thug of a Thugocracy.

I respected Sadat - far more than any other Arab leader and, like Rabin, he was killed for having vision and gumption.
Posted by: .com   2005-01-17 3:03:23 AM  

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