All they have to do is say ..”WE REJECT THE RIGHT OF RETURN”, and I bet there would be a real peace in 6 months with 2 states.
IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN WHILE MEN BREATHE.
NYTimes:
Few in Washington may realize that the issue of U.S. funding for Palestine is the talk of the town in Ramallah and other Palestinian cities. And the talk is not pleasant.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has been telling aides that he plans to reject some $150 million in federal money earmarked for Palestinian security.
When Abbas both insisted on going to the UN for recognition, AND refused negotiations, US Aid suspension within Congress resulted, except for aid meant for police.
After U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak intervened last month, $200 million for the Palestinian Authority was unfrozen. Fifty million of those funds was to go toward ongoing projects, and $150 million was pegged for Palestinian security services. All other funding remains on hold, including $4.6 million that was intended for use by the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem under the Middle East Partnership Initiative. Established during the George W. Bush administration, MEPI was initially administered by Liz Cheney with the goal of empowering democratic initiatives in the Middle East. As the Arab Spring continues to drive change throughout the region, Palestinian leaders are feeling its effect. The millions earmarked for Palestinian security have become a hot potato.
Palestinian Authority leaders have been accused of being security agents for Israel.
The Israelis have not stopped building settlements or expropriating Palestinian lands.
Idiotic combination - the last two lines. Abbas will not reject right of return, or recognize Israel as a Jewish state, and if there were a peace, that would mean (they believe) more Palestinians in Israel that Israelis, which is to say NO ISRAEL. So what difference does ratcheting up pressure for peace do as settlements increase? Israel has already shown MULTIPLE TIMES from 1967 to now they will dismantle settlements and forcibly remove Jews.
The intricacies of foreign policy are usually unknown to the average American. But it doesn’t take much to understand that aligning with one side in the Middle East peace process not only erodes the United States’ diplomatic leverage but also plants the seeds of doom for the United States in a sensitive region.
Daoud Kuttab is a Palestinian journalist and former professor of journalism at Princeton University.
The piece de resistance there, Dr Kuttab. You just called us ‘slow’, something the president agrees with you on, BTW, and averr our efforts in the Middle east will be doomed if we continue on our uninformed course.
So allow me to deliver the one liner from an informed, non slow, point of view… ARABS hate us, and always have from the moment that we (65-80%) of us became Zionists in the sense that we believe there must be AN Israel, and it must be JEWISH.
Jews and Crusaders, I think is the point of reference.
Turkey 2003, and the 4th Infantry Division is the point of reference for you.
Pew Surveys.
A NATO member.
Nothing in the image on the right has changed in DECADES.
There IS enmity among the peoples there and the peoples and way of life here. It is THAT which dooms American efforts in the middle east, not unyielding efforts to eradicate the jews, which we MUST oppose.
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