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2004-12-06 Israel-Palestine

Britain to host Mid-East peace summit (Jan/Feb)

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Posted by Bulldog 2004-12-06 3:56:07 AM|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Looks like a carrot to the Paleos to induce them to elect Abbas. My money's still on Barghouti. That cell is going to get pretty crowded.

Posted by phil_b 2004-12-06 5:33:23 AM|| 2004-12-06 5:33:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Should get em all smokin hookah pipes in a cafe on the Edgware Rd... soon sort it out.

Posted by Howard UK 2004-12-06 5:49:50 AM|| 2004-12-06 5:49:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 The Vanse conference.

Posted by gromgorru 2004-12-06 6:06:27 AM|| 2004-12-06 6:06:27 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 The Phoney Tony Conference.

You're welcome, Tony. Happy now?

Posted by lex 2004-12-06 6:15:11 AM|| 2004-12-06 6:15:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 This kind of international brokering is more effective when there are no outside parties organizing the negotiations, especially, I'm afraid, European ones. Tony means well, but this kind of thing is a set-up where everybody gangs up on Israel. There is no point in negotiating anything until the Arab parties are serious about actually accepting Israel's right to exist within viable borders (the Green Line does not meet that criterion), with no right of return for the Palestinians, and are willing to negotiate a real peace treaty (not a mere cessation of hostilities, ie hudna) on that basis.

Posted by trailing wife 2004-12-06 6:45:44 AM|| 2004-12-06 6:45:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Payback for support for Iraq. Fitting that it's timed for right around the Iraqi elections as well. Let's hope Bush's people turn this into a PR victory for us: two free elections for the first time in the muslim middle east, and neither would have happened without pressure by the Bush admin.

Posted by lex 2004-12-06 6:49:09 AM|| 2004-12-06 6:49:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 I am sorry to say it, but there will be still so many conferences about this issue in the future that their count would make your head spin.

Posted by Sobiesky 2004-12-06 7:02:50 AM|| 2004-12-06 7:02:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 'Britain to host Mid-East peace summit (Jan/Feb)
Lex makes a good point , but Mid-East , Peace and summit all in the same sentence , nah !! I dont beleive it !
hosted by us infidels , no arab is gonna take this seriously . Expect a walk out after day one of Israel bashing .

Posted by MacNails 2004-12-06 11:24:56 AM|| 2004-12-06 11:24:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Instead, America and Israel want a businesslike meeting to focus on "practical issues" such as rebuilding Palestinian security services and providing financial support for Palestinians after Israelâs planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip next year.

Wait a minute - hoooold everything!! "Financial support"????

NO. Not until the Paleo "leadership" takes solid steps toward reforming their whole society. They know what these steps are, and nothing else needs to be said about the matter until some action on their part is seen.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-12-06 12:49:54 PM|| 2004-12-06 12:49:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Big yawn!

So the brits have a whack at it, so much the better.

Wake me up when there's real news.

Posted by Capt America 2004-12-06 5:08:28 PM|| 2004-12-06 5:08:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Amen, BAR. NO SUPPORT until Pallies stop all attacks inside Israel. Measurably. Period.

I saw today that Musharraf is yapping about root causes again, poverty, ignorance, blah blah blah.
So are jihadis too stupid to know it's wrong to kill innocents, too poor to know it's wrong to kill innocents, or indifferent to killing innocents because what matters to them is superlative barbarity when proving the strength of their religious faith?

How many of the 19 hijackers were poor and ignorant? How many were educated, financially secure, and rabid zealots?

End of conference. My fee is $50,000. Here's the door. Click.

Posted by Jules 187 2004-12-06 5:23:17 PM|| 2004-12-06 5:23:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 I agree with Capt America BIG YAWN. There will always be trouble over there- no matter who is in office. Too many cooks in the kitchen and the pot is always boiling. # 11 Jules 187
you are so right...but where do you come up with $50,000.00- DON'T LET THE DOOR HIT YOUR BACK SIDE. RUN DONT WALK.

ANdrea

Posted by andrea 2004-12-06 5:46:21 PM|| 2004-12-06 5:46:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Andrea-a study was done and everyone in the international community agrees-it's a 5-figure gig. ;)

Posted by Jules 187 2004-12-06 6:03:20 PM|| 2004-12-06 6:03:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Expect more of these make-believe show "conferences", "summits" etc on a host of issues, not just Isr-Pal. This is the tribute we're expected to pay PC polite world opinion, represented by Blair above all other leaders, for having been so arrogant as to re-elect Bush.

So we can expect another summit to revise Kyoto, a conference to reform the UN (ie do nothing), more summits on African debt relief etc. Sound and fury, signifying f-all....

Posted by lex 2004-12-06 6:30:37 PM|| 2004-12-06 6:30:37 PM|| Front Page Top

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