Ag please. Don't send me off to find documents showing equal from all sides!!! Do some work for a change!!When these "protest" organizations brainwash 5 year olds, strap bombs to mentally challenged kids, hide their arms in amongst the population and purposely put them in the cross fire when are fighting the Israelis and amongst themselves we hear nothing from your ilk.
I realise "we" or "I" can have a simplistic view of the world: but please! where do you get your reality from?The Palestinians themselves are "ignoring" their own elections . Hence they a fighting and killing amongst themselves. No terrorists don't act because they have no other option. They flatly refuse the option that allows the situation to improve for them. That is recognizing Israel and her safety. They are so hell bent on her destruction from endless brainwashing that they are willing to go such extremes. If they spent as much energy on improving their own situation as they do on trying to destroy Israel things would be a lot better for them.
On 9 September 1993, Arafat issued a press release stating that "the PLO recognizes the right of the State of Israel to exist in peace and security".
Numerous leaders within the PLO and the PA, including Yasser Arafat himself, have declared that the State of Israel has a permanent right to exist, and that the peace treaty with Israel is genuine
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A letter from Arafat to US President Bill Clinton in 1998 listed the clauses concerned, and a meeting of the Palestine Central Committee approved that list. To remove all doubt the vote this time was held in a public meeting of PLO, PNC and PCC members which was televised worldwide and in the presence of none other than the President of the United States Bill Clinton in person, who arrived in the Gaza Strip for that specific purpose. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accepted this as the promised nullification.
As to the current fiasco: to all intents Abbas is corrupt and outvoted. I am not an expert but your diatribe is certainly drivel.
1) Accept the destruction of Israel and the hegemony of Islamic extremism over the world
Ya, right. Got to ask (beside the now ceasing of any peace) who of late has done the most killing (as usual?) Who are the real terrorists? Could it be YOU?!
Wars of aggression against Israel carried out by those that like today want her destruction. It's the same objective for the last 60 years. Unfortunately for those that strive for it, it has failed and continues to fail. While striving for this they have torn themselves apart and run themselves into the ground. Yet they still cling desperately to this goal that their ideology propagates. Hence they get more and more desperate. Those on the losing side always take the most drastic actions.
Statements of al-Qaeda recorded after 9/11 add weight to the U.S account of who was responsible for the attacks. In a 2004 video, apparently acknowledging responsibility for the attacks, bin Laden states that he was motivated by the 1982 Lebanon War, for which he held the U.S. partially responsible. In the video, bin Laden also claims that he wants to, "restore freedom to our nation," to "punish the aggressor in kind," and to inflict economic damage on America. He declared that a continuing objective of his holy war was to, "[bleed] America to the point of bankruptcy."[81] Bin Laden said, "We swore that America wouldn't live in security until we live it truly in Palestine. This showed the reality of America, which puts Israel's interest above its own people's interest. America won't get out of this crisis until it gets out of the Arabian Peninsula, and until it stops its support of Israel."
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Oh dear. Now who shall I believe? You? Or our old buddy BL?
Israel has entered into an Orwellian world of inbred perceptions and unanalyzed assumptions. These appear to make sense from inside Israeli society (and the Zionist community worldwide as well), but from the outside seem to be out of touch with reality. The inside "reality" is dominated by the obsessive concept of fortress Israel *that is Israel against the world. This mental paradigm, which ascribes all criticism of Israeli behavior to eternal anti-Semitism, is assimilated from childhood, taught to you by your family and your teachers at school. It is a belief commonly shared, and thus reinforced, by your neighbors, your coworkers, the newspapers, television and radio, and those with whom you do your military service (some of the army induction ceremonies are held at site of the 73 CE mass suicide of Jewish Zealots at Masada). It is a constant part of your consciousness and defines patriotic thought.
Welcome to Their Nightmare
There is never mention that, just as the rise of Hamas was a response to the atrocities and humiliations the Palestinians have suffered for half a century, so Hezbollah was formed only as a defence against Ariel Sharon's murderous invasion of Lebanon in 1982 which left 22,000 people dead. There is never mention that Israel intervenes at will, illegally and brutally, in the remaining 22 per cent of historic Palestine, having demolished 11,000 homes and walled off people from their farmlands, and families, and hospitals, and schools. There is never mention that the threat to Israel's existence is a canard, and the true enemy of its people is not the Arabs, but Zionism and an imperial America [/I]that guarantees the Jewish state as the antithesis of humane Judaism.
Empire and Israel
Once again, who should I believe? You?
And: according to your version of history there is no state of Palestine. What does that say of the existence of Israel?
(this 10 000 character limit is driving me crazy!)