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2005-10-20 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Mahmoud Abbas: Is the Road Map A Dead Ender

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Posted by Captain America 2005-10-20 00:04|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Abu ~~Mudhen~~ Mazen had better realize one thing. His @ss is dangling by the most slender of threads. This single gossamer strand is known as, "The Road Map."

I invite him to abandon The Road Map and see what happens to his albeit brief life thereafter. As the only "moderate" Palestinian on the horizon he remains, perhaps, the one single leader of his people who retains sufficient vision to pilot them through the shoals of their nascent statehood.

Should Abbas abandon The Road Map, he would essentially declare open season upon himself for all of the competing factions who would like nothing more than a resumption of festivities.

Abbas has little to threaten Israel with and much to fear from within his own ranks. It is obvious that Sharon realizes this and has most likely informed Abbas of exactly how brief his continued shuffle on this mortal coil will likely be should he fail to correctly read the Map.

In light of the rather tedious progress that has been made, not to mention the lackluster opposition Abbas has presented to terrorists within his electorate's ranks, I find it increasingly difficult to wish him any sort of luck.

The Palestinians truly deserve nothing more than a reputation for eating their young. Whether it is the endless internecine warfare, obliterating the flower of their youth or thwarting all hopes of reconstruction with unabated and endemic corruption, their rapacity is their own reward. Such willful and transcendent malignance could not be a more fitting or well deserved legacy for the Palestinian people.

Success or failure of the Palestinian State teeters upon its own over honed knife-edge. The Road Mapâs path is a precipitous ridgeline that Abbas will have to navigate with the nimbleness of a mountain goat, if he wishes even to live, let alone succeed.

Posted by Zenster 2005-10-20 01:35|| 2005-10-20 01:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Mahmoud Abbas: Is the Road Map A Dead Ender

So long as you won't do what is proper and necessary, the answer is YES.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-10-20 10:43|| 2005-10-20 10:43|| Front Page Top

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