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2007-11-22 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Will Annapolis talks achieve desperately needed Mideast peace?

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Posted by Fred 2007-11-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
File under: Palestinian Authority

#1 Is the Pope Budhist? Does a bear use indoor plumbing?

Posted by Thor Angereling4351 2007-11-22 00:42|| 2007-11-22 00:42|| Front Page Top

#2 460k Arabs left what became Israel on the eve of Arab war against the new state. 780k Jews were consequently expelled from Arab countries and 88% landed in Israel.

I say it's more than even, Scott.

Posted by twobyfour 2007-11-22 00:46|| 2007-11-22 00:46|| Front Page Top

#3 And Mr. Scott MacLeod also wrote:"...galvanized into her own re-think of the Middle East crisis by her disastrous handling of Israels attack on Lebanon in the summer of 2006; as images of dead children filled the worlds TV screens, she called the war the birth pangs of a new Middle East and stubbornly refused to demand an Israeli cease-fire."

I suspect Mr. MacLeod is a stringer for the BBC, or a front man for UNFIL. Surprised to read this on a conservative nationalist Lebanese news site.

Posted by Phinater Thraviger 2007-11-22 01:04|| 2007-11-22 01:04|| Front Page Top

#4 No.

Next question.

Posted by Large Ebbaving6251 2007-11-22 02:56|| 2007-11-22 02:56|| Front Page Top

#5 "Desperately needed"? Huh? Nah, don't think so, Scott.

Seems to me the (long, long, inexcusably delayed) security barrier has left Israelis not very much in need of peace of any sort with their uncivilized and undeserving neighbors (Sderot residents excepted). This, plus of course the bizarre self-interest of Israeli politicians in stasis, may explain why a farcically ineffective PM stays on in Israel, and is allowed to engage in silly stunts like this Annapolis barfathon.

Behold, just in this small excerpt, the bizarre alternative make-believe world idiots like McLeod inhabit - they fixate on process, including that which has been tried umpteen times to no avail given the hostility and depravity of one of the parties, as if that matters. They are caricatures - nearly implausible ones - of process-fixated diplomats.

It's nauseating to contemplate the number of idiots, both here and abroad, who actually make well-paying careers out of this nonsense. In the process they pollute the minds of non-specialists as the equally clueless media feeds their crap into the news flow, non-stop.

Posted by Verlaine 2007-11-22 04:02|| 2007-11-22 04:02|| Front Page Top

#6 Mideast 'peace process' = 2007 Miami Dolphins.

Compare & contrast...

Posted by Raj 2007-11-22 07:47|| 2007-11-22 07:47|| Front Page Top

#7 Unless a "need" is a "want" it's a lie.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-11-22 08:34|| 2007-11-22 08:34|| Front Page Top

#8 (not really on topic, but piggybacking on #6...)
Just out of curiosity, if the 2007 Dolphins go winless, will Steve Spurrier, Lee Roy Selmon and maybe one or two other members of the '76 Buccaneers pop champagne corks?

Posted by eLarson 2007-11-22 10:35|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2007-11-22 10:35|| Front Page Top

#9 process-fixated diplomats

Paging the Department of Redundancy Department to the white courtesy phone.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-11-22 11:21|| 2007-11-22 11:21|| Front Page Top

#10 "Occupied West Bank", huh? How about "Arab-occupied Judea"? Or consider this Obadiah Shoher

Posted by Ann 2007-11-22 18:41|| 2007-11-22 18:41|| Front Page Top

#11 What Verlaine said. I'd say the status quo is quite satisfactory. Hamas and Fatah running around killing each other. Israel progressively isolating itself from Gaza and the WB. Where's the problem?

Posted by phil_b 2007-11-22 20:24|| 2007-11-22 20:24|| Front Page Top

#12 Where's the problem?

Problem, miss Rice has nada to put on her resume.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2007-11-22 22:43|| 2007-11-22 22:43|| Front Page Top

#13 Problem, miss Rice has nada to put on her resume.

Now that's gonna leave a mark!

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-11-22 22:46|| 2007-11-22 22:46|| Front Page Top

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