Abbas Resignation Imperils Peace Plan

[Nicholas_J]

WASHINGTON Sept. 6 —
The Bush administration found its plans for peace between Israel and the Palestinians in disarray Saturday with the resignation of Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, whom the Americans considered the only credible Palestinian peacemaker.

In the hours after Abbas, the apparent loser in a power struggle with Yasser Arafat, submitted his resignation, stunned administration officials were uncertain that Abbas would follow through. By afternoon, however, a State Department official said the administration had become more convinced that Abbas really was quitting, and Arafat would accept his resignation.

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20030906_902.html

[barbaraann]

1. The BFEE never had a peace plan.

They want chaos and death so that they can profiteer.

[Nicholas_J]

7. Israel is doing fairly well in that process as well

Bush just gave Israel the contract to rebuild and run the Iraqi telephone system. (without going through the bid process), just like Bechtel and Haliburton.

[MrPrax]

2. Oh No The Peace Process is Derailed...Again

It used to be said about Yitzhak Shamir that he wanted to wake up in the morning and see newspaper headlines saying, "The threat of peace has been lifted."
heh
The only way this stuff makes sense is if one removes the 'racism' of thinking Israel has a higher claim to security, they have been for decades illegal expanding their territories and have been receiving unconditional support from the US gov't...
But Americans, unlike the British who got tired of spending wads on Northern Ireland, are subjected to a very sophisticated propaganda machine that continually asks "Do You Support Israel's Right To Exist"

It is some sorta litmus test on anti-semtism I assume

[IndianaGreen]

3. There can be no peace for as long as Arafat is in charge

Arafat has never changed from the man that plotted the Munich Olympic massacre in 1972.

When the IDF raided his headquarters in Ramallah last year, they found invoices that clearly showed (even to this sceptic) that Arafat had been funding the manufacture of suicide belts.

The resignation of Abu Mazen was brought about by Arafat's refusal to disband the Al-Aqsa militia and to give Mazen control over the security apparatus. Arafat had little intentions of seeking the terrorists. Why would he? He is as involved in terrorism as bin Laden!

[Nicholas_J]

6. The only way their will be peace

Will be WITH Arafat...

This is like saying that because Menahem Begin planned the bombing of the King David Hotel and killed more people than Arafat did in Munich. there would be no pence between Israel and Egypt because a terrorist was in Charge of Israel (actually in charge of Egypt as well. Sadat was arrested for trying to assist Rommel invade Egypt to get the British out) Somehow those who totally support Israel give their own terrorist roots a WIDE berth.

A week later, news of a massacre of 40 Jews in a pogrom in Poland reminded the Jews of Palestine how Britain's restrictive immigration policy had condemned thousands to death.

Irgun leader Menachem Begin stressed his desire to avoid civilian casualties and said three telephone calls were placed, one to the hotel, another to the French Consulate, and a third to the Palestine Post, warning that explosives in the King David Hotel would soon be detonated.

On July 22, 1946, the calls were made. The call into the hotel was apparently received and ignored. Begin quotes one British official who supposedly refused to evacuate the building, saying: "We don't take orders from the Jews."1 As a result, when the bombs exploded, the casualty toll was high: a total of 91 killed and 45 injured. Among the casualties were 15 Jews. Few people in the hotel proper were injured by the blast.2

http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/History/King_David.html

Begin only gave less rthan 25 minutes warning about the placement of the bomb and the call was made to the French Embassy adjacent to the Hotel, not the Hotel itself.

In the end, Shoarons policies have resulted in more deaths through refusing to negotiate with Arafat than any other Israeli leader since the first intifada.


It is time for both Israel and Palestine to negitiate with each other without preconditions, otherwise they leave the terrorists in control of the peace process.

[veganwitch]

4. this is a dupe

i posted one below.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=100373

[IndianaGreen]

5. Not quite a dupe

The story you posted is about the resignation of Abu Mazen. This story is about the White House reaction. Two separate stories, two different bylines, two different locations.