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2006-01-12 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Hamas vows no change to stance on Israel, disarmament despite elections

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Posted by Dan Darling 2006-01-12 01:17|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Hamas's most prominent leader in Gaza and the West Bank, Mahmoud Zahar, said Wednesday that his faction would still refuse to recognize Israel or disarm even if it won in the Palestinian elections this month.

Way to go, Zahar-baby. Continue to marginalize your cause. As you climb the ladder of international diplomacy, you're going to meet a lot of other people that dislike falling from their own particular heights. These people often dislike hamfisted violent thugs who are likely to bring the whole construct crashing down.

Feel free to delude yourself in terms of how warm the welcome will be for a bunch of gun-toting genocidal gangsters in the midst of this tenuous framework. We'll patiently wait for your shock and surprise when all of your international aid packages shrivel and wither in the light of your adamant hatred.

The slow poison you've spent decades secreting into Palestinian society is now attaining its cumulative effect. At your very moment of conquest, such bilious hatred and xenophobic mentality will only serve to isolate and quarrantine the festering scum you call "followers." Maybe then you'll finally realize that your fraternity of fellow Jew-hating hoodlums are going to be out in the cold while the future passes you by.

Fear not, I'll not only wave as I go by. I'll also be sure to laugh and point.

Posted by Zenster 2006-01-12 16:12|| 2006-01-12 16:12|| Front Page Top

#2 According to David Ignatius, editorialist for the Washington Post, Ehud Olmert is the architect of Ariel Sharon's consolidate-behind-the-wall policy.

He writes , in today's Wall Street Journal (free, but registration req'd):
Mr. Olmert played a trailblazing role three years ago in proposing a unilateral withdrawal from Gaza and the West Bank. At the time, Israelis were reeling from a failed peace process, a wave of suicide bombings and a growing sense of despair about the country's political future. Mr. Olmert argued in a November 2003 interview with Haaretz that to survive and prosper as a Jewish state, Israel must pull back from its settlements in Gaza and most of the West Bank. If Israel tried to hold on to the territories it occupied in the 1967 war, Jews would soon be outnumbered by Palestinians and Israel would lose its soul.

Mr. Olmert didn't mince words in his 2003 interview: "There is no doubt in my mind that very soon the government of Israel is going to have to address the demographic issue with the utmost seriousness and resolve," he said. "In the absence of a negotiated agreement -- and I do not believe in the realistic prospect of an agreement -- we need to implement a unilateral alternative."

Mr. Olmert stressed that to make disengagement work, Israel would have to pull back far enough to maintain an 80-20 ratio of Jews to Arabs within its borders, and that it would have to pull out of some Arab neighborhoods in East Jerusalem. These were issues that Mr. Sharon fudged, to the day he was rushed to the hospital.

And it's starting to look like an Olmert-lead Kadima will be the one to form the next government, despite the loss of Sharon. Voting Hamas into power will guarantee a quick end to Palestinian hopes for anything.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-01-12 22:06|| 2006-01-12 22:06|| Front Page Top

#3 When are the Palestinian elections?

Posted by Jake 2006-01-12 22:10|| 2006-01-12 22:10|| Front Page Top

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