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Posted By JamesMarcus 10 months, 3 weeks ago in NewsPresident Bush will preside at a dinner on Monday night in Annapolis, Md., that will mark the beginning of the first major international peace efforts between Israelis and Palestinians since the Clinton administration. The Associated Press reports that Bush is scheduled to make a speech that reiterates his support for the peace process, but that is unlikely to contain any new proposals.
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nikkibabe10 months, 3 weeks ago
The result will be a big "0". You cannot invade, occupy and destroy a muslim country and hold a peace conference for the same region.
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Endoscopy10 months, 3 weeks ago
LOL
I agree with you about the results but for a different reason. Since 1948 when Israel, Jordan, and some others were created the Arabs surrounding Israel have had several Jihads with Israel. They still give Israel no right to exist. There were several wars to drive the Jews into the sea and kill them there.they have shelled and bombed Israel during times of "peace". Palestinians were created by the Muslim countries when they refused to allow the Muslims who left the war zone as requested in 1948. They did what they were told to do and then hung out to dry.
How do you negotiate with someone who says they need to kill you. That is what Palestinians and Muslim countries around Israel are saying.
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hyperbola10 months, 3 weeks ago
Ah My! Endo still trying to cover up zionist crimes against humanity with lies. Time to join sane israelis in ending the holocaust in palestine by ending the zionist state.
The ethnic cleansing of Palestine
by Ilan Pappe
University of Haifa, Israel
The book shows that in 1948, the Zionist movement waged a war against the Palestinian people in order to implement its long term plans of ethnic cleansing. The Arab world tried to prevent this cleansing, but was too fragmented, self-centered and ineffective to stop the uprooting of half of Palestine's native population, the destruction of half of its villages and towns and the killing of thousands of its people.
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hyperbola10 months, 3 weeks ago
Still supporting the robbing, killing, expulsion of putting in concentration camps of over 7 million christians ande moslems Endo? Extremely anti-American.
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe
A Review
Ilan Pappe is an Israeli historian and senior lecturer at Haifa University. He's also Academic Director of the Research Institute for Peace at Givat Haviva and Chair of the Emil Touma Institute for Palestinian Studies. Pappe is an expert on Israel and Zionism and the Palestinians' Right of Return to their homeland, is considered "an honourable academic with integrity and conscience," and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Council for Palestinian Restitution and Repatriation (CPRR), an organization declaring that "every Palestinian has a legitimate, individual right to return to his or her original home and to absolute restitution of his or her property."
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PapaWolf10 months, 2 weeks ago
>>When was Bush ever interested in peace?
on the Palestinian issue, twice. Once when he needed Arab support to invade Iraq, and now when he wants to invade Iran.
Isn't it amazing that he only wants to talk peace in the ME when he wants to invade someone in the ME?
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rumple4skin10 months, 3 weeks ago
Hamas, an uninvited player, was not included in the guest list.
"President Bush will preside at a dinner on Monday night in Annapolis, Md., that will mark the beginning of the first major international peace efforts between Israelis and Palestinians since the Clinton administration." This is a very expensive dinner that will net nothing but further meetings. A complete waste without ALL the players.
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rightfromwrong10 months, 3 weeks ago
why would they want Bush anywhere near the place. He is an idiot and has the Israel lobby stuck up his you know where
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MRCOFFEECAKE10 months, 2 weeks ago
I hope he doesn't serve pork..THAT is the ONLY thing that Jews and Muslims agree on!
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fabio200710 months, 3 weeks ago
The only thing the middle east understands is strength. Anyone who doesn't understand this obviously doesn't understand 9/11.
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PapaWolf10 months, 2 weeks ago
>>The only thing the middle east understands is strength. Anyone who doesn't understand this obviously doesn't understand 9/11.
You don't know many Middle Easterner's, then. Do you?
Arabs (Christian, Muslim, Jewish AND other), Israelis (again, Jewish, Christian, Muslim & other), Persians, Afghans, etc., etc., etc., are the most open & friendly people in the world. They open their homes to you, feed you & clothe you.
BUT... and it's a BIG "but"...
If you pis$ them off, you are in BIG trouble.
We found that out on 9/11 because we were warned to get our military out of Saudi Arabia. Since we didn't, OBL attacked.
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Thinker2210 months, 2 weeks ago
> We found that out on 9/11 because we were warned to get our military out of Saudi Arabia. Since we didn't, OBL attacked.
So... the Arabs are the most open & friendly people in the world for as long as you'll do exactly what they want. If not they'll kill you.
By the way, the Mafia uses the same principles.
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marshx10 months, 3 weeks ago
Nice try, though i think there would've been progress if they invited Hamas. They control Gaza, how can they abide by anything decided without their participation?
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Thinker2210 months, 3 weeks ago
> ...i think there would've been progress if they invited Hamas. They control Gaza, how can they abide by anything decided without their participation?
As long as they deny the right of Israel to EXIST it means that ANYTHING can only be decided WITHOUT their participation. After all, what can you discuss with someone who does not agree with your RIGHT TO LIVE?
Further, if Palestinian President Abbas CAN control Gaza there is no need to invite Hamas to Annapolis as the Palestinian President will take care of them. On the other hand, if Abbas CAN NOT control Gaza then it makes no sense to talk to Abbas, either, as he will not be able to comply with the obligations he will, supposedly, sign.
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hyperbola10 months, 3 weeks ago
A fascist religious state that has robbed, killed, expelled or put inconcentration camps over 7 million christians and moslems has no right to exist and should be ended by the world.
Fantasy vs. Reality in Palestine-Israel
Heading for Annapolis
... Israeli correspondent Gideon Levy touched on the essence of the conflict in a commentary in Ha'aretz that was completely at odds with Sunday's wishful front-page headlines and indeed with the very basis of the Annapolis summit. Addressing underlying Israeli worries that Israel will be pressed to make costly concessions, Levy noted that Israel is in fact not being asked to "give" anything to the Palestinians but only "to return their stolen land and restore their trampled self-respect, along with their fundamental human rights and humanity." This, he says, is "the primary core issue," but no one talks about this anymore; justice "has deliberately been erased from all negotiations."
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