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Abbas: There will be no peace until Israel tears down separation fence
Reuters/Ha'artez ^ | 29 December 2004 | Reuters

Posted on 12/29/2004 1:52:58 PM PST by anotherview

Last Update: 29/12/2004 23:05
Abbas: There will be no peace until Israel tears down separation fence
By Reuters

Taking his campaign to succeed Yasser Arafat to the foot of the West Bank separation fence, PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas said on Wednesday there would be no peace until Israel tore it down.

"No (Middle East) peace can transpire with (Jewish) settlements and the wall," Abbas said with his back to the separation fence around Qalqilyah near the West Bank's boundary with Israel.

"We tell our neighbors: 'No matter how many settlements, walls or obstacles you build, it will not bring you security or peace," Abbas said.

The hearty welcome given Abbas at his first campaign rally in Jericho on Tuesday carried over on Wednesday to Qalqilyah and Tul Karm. Crowds repeatedly interrupted his speeches with cheers and people of all ages ran excitedly after his convoy.

Heavy security was draped around Abbas because of feared threats from militants opposed to peacemaking. However, local members of the al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed group in the mainstream Fatah faction that nominated Abbas for president, greeted Abbas and said they would vote for him.

Abu Salem, commander of the Brigades in Tul Karm, said gunmen would be receptive to Abbas's call for an end to armed violence, which has abated in most areas since Arafat died in November.

Abbas repeated his campaign theme that he would follow in Arafat's footsteps by vowing to seek a state in all of the West Bank and Gaza Strip with East Jerusalem as its capital and the "right of return" of refugees to what is now Israel.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abumazen; israel; mahmoudabbas; pa; paelection; palestinians; peaceprocess; plo; securityfence; separationfence; terrorism; terrorists
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"No (Middle East) peace can transpire with (Jewish) settlements and the wall," Abbas said

Mr. Abbas, we get it. We really do. You don't want peace.

1 posted on 12/29/2004 1:52:59 PM PST by anotherview
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To: anotherview

"Abbas: There will be no peace until Israel tears down separation fence"

...and dissolves the state of Israel. He left that part out.


2 posted on 12/29/2004 1:54:47 PM PST by Spok
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To: anotherview
"Heavy security was draped around Abbas because of feared threats from militants opposed to peacemaking."

Those opposed to Abbas making peace really have nothing to worry about.

3 posted on 12/29/2004 1:54:59 PM PST by Bahbah
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To: anotherview

The only thing I would like to see Israel do is install big gun turrets on that wall and keep 'em smoking. (Well, that's not ALL I would like to see them do, but I don't want to get banned, so I will just leave it at that.)


4 posted on 12/29/2004 1:56:01 PM PST by broadsword (The difference between Charles Manson and Mohamed is... exactly... WHAT?)
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To: anotherview

That guy sees life in a mirror - everything is exactly backward.


5 posted on 12/29/2004 1:56:25 PM PST by matchwood
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To: anotherview
And the Fence won't come down until there is peace.
6 posted on 12/29/2004 1:56:33 PM PST by CzarNicky (The problem with bad ideas is that they seemed like good ideas at the time.)
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To: anotherview
Ummmm.
If I remember correctly, there sure wasn't a whole lot of "peace" going on before the fence started going up...
7 posted on 12/29/2004 1:56:34 PM PST by Publius6961 (The most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.)
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To: anotherview
"We tell our neighbors: 'No matter how many settlements, walls or obstacles you build, it will not bring you security or peace," Abbas said.

It should be assumed that this is a threat.

8 posted on 12/29/2004 1:57:54 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: All

No sir. There can be no peace as long as you harbor villains who use children and the mentally challenged to strap bombs on themselves to commit homicide in the name of "Allah".


9 posted on 12/29/2004 1:58:16 PM PST by Blast_Master
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To: broadsword

"The only thing I would like to see Israel do is install big gun turrets on that wall and keep 'em smoking. (Well, that's not ALL I would like to see them do, but I don't want to get banned, so I will just leave it at that.)"

Sounds good to me. Let's build one just like it on our border with Mexico.


10 posted on 12/29/2004 2:00:33 PM PST by Max Combined
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To: anotherview

Yeah, tear down the wall so they can destroy you better. Their idea of 'peace' is having the Jews exterminated or enslaved.


11 posted on 12/29/2004 2:02:36 PM PST by Free and Armed
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To: anotherview
PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas said on Wednesday there would be no peace until Israel tore [the fence] down.

Clearest evidence yet that the fence is effective.

12 posted on 12/29/2004 2:03:19 PM PST by aBootes
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To: broadsword
"The only thing I would like to see Israel do is install big gun turrets on that wall and keep 'em smoking."

I'm with you!

In addition to that, design a system that would keep the turrets cool enough to never stop.

13 posted on 12/29/2004 2:05:12 PM PST by lormand (Yankee Go Home!...but please take me with you)
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To: Max Combined

I'm right with you, there, my friend!


14 posted on 12/29/2004 2:06:12 PM PST by broadsword (The difference between Charles Manson and Mohamed is... exactly... WHAT?)
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To: lormand

LOL! I like the way you think!


15 posted on 12/29/2004 2:07:15 PM PST by broadsword (The difference between Charles Manson and Mohamed is... exactly... WHAT?)
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To: anotherview
There have been one hell of a lot less suicide bombings since the fence went up!
16 posted on 12/29/2004 2:10:47 PM PST by mickie
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To: anotherview
Abbas: There will be no peace until Israel tears down separation fence

Peace = Pieces!

17 posted on 12/29/2004 2:11:29 PM PST by tsmith130 ("Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called "walking."" - GWB)
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To: anotherview

Abbas: There will be no peace until Israel tears down separation fence

so that our terrorists will have free access to carry out their murderous sorties.


18 posted on 12/29/2004 2:11:36 PM PST by taxesareforever
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To: anotherview
"No (Middle East) peace can transpire with (Jewish) settlements and the wall," Abbas said with his back to the separation fence around Qalqilyah near the West Bank's boundary with Israel."

Translation: "Unless you make it easier for us to kill you and your children on a daily basis, there will never be peace".

Just because the Arab Islamofacists are uneducated idiots, doesnt mean the rest of the world should be.

19 posted on 12/29/2004 2:12:41 PM PST by libs_kma (USA: The land of the Free....Because of the Brave!)
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To: anniegetyourgun

I read it as a threat immediately.

Boy, he is sure trying to "win over the hearts and minds" of the Jews, isn't he. Maybe Bush could take some lessons from him in dealing with some of the Muslims.

I don't trust anyone that Arafat was close to---"the enemy of my enemy" kind of thing.


20 posted on 12/29/2004 2:14:41 PM PST by Txsleuth (Proud to be a Texan)
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To: anotherview

Abbas, you look old enough to have been born before Israel started putting up the wall. Therefore you lying sack of sh*t, you are fully aware that there was no peace before the wall was built.

If you Palestinians really want peace, all you have to do is begin doing unto the Israeli's as you would have them do unto you.

Is that too complicated for you to understand, Mr. Abscess?


21 posted on 12/29/2004 2:15:03 PM PST by F.J. Mitchell (I resolve for 2005, to live my life as I would be if I had kept all my previous resolutions.)
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To: anotherview

According the the muslims, will be no peace as long as there are Jews and infidels.


22 posted on 12/29/2004 2:15:42 PM PST by umgud
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To: umgud

What the Muslims are saying, is there will be no Peace as long there are Muslims. That makes it clear what the Jews and Infidels must do to win the peace.


23 posted on 12/29/2004 2:20:11 PM PST by F.J. Mitchell (I resolve for 2005, to live my life as I would be if I had kept all my previous resolutions.)
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To: anotherview

the fence has been an outstanding success and must stay.


24 posted on 12/29/2004 2:21:17 PM PST by chilepepper (The map is not the territory -- Alfred Korzybski)
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To: anotherview

He was also at the meeting with Bush when the peace process was laid out under the Bush Administration.

He already knows that the "right of return" is a non-starter.
I know there are a lot of American Jews and Israelis that aren't fans of Sharon, but I give him credit for 2 things. Building the fence over the objections of the world (UN), and at least taking the first step in Bush's plan, by unilaterally offering the Gaza strip. All he and Bush wants from the Palestinians right now is to denounce terrorism and THEY CAN'T DO IT!!!!

Enough said!!!


25 posted on 12/29/2004 2:23:20 PM PST by Txsleuth (Proud to be a Texan)
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To: anotherview

Ah, the old Ararfat negotiating strategery! Keep putting key demands as preconditions to negotiations and keep changing/adding preconditions as circumstances change. Thus, there are always blocks to negotiations. It was what made ole rag head so effective and why he accomplished so mush, including partial ownership of a bowlng alley, every Palestinians' dream!


26 posted on 12/29/2004 2:25:44 PM PST by Tacis (Kerry - You Can't Make A Silk Purse Out Of A Lazy, Lying, Elitist Scumbag!)
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To: anotherview

6 too many words in title.


27 posted on 12/29/2004 2:27:36 PM PST by OSHA (My problems are all in your head.)
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To: anotherview
There will be no peace in the Middle East until the barbaric Muslims, their leaders, their media, their intellectuals, and their governments all decide to coexist with others without forcing them to convert to Islam. They cry that Israel is an expansionist country, yet Muslims, s have expanded from north Africa 100s of miles south, forcing the African people to convert to Islam, and forcing their language, and culture on them. Good example Sudan, Eritrea, Ivory Cost, and Nigeria

Peace can only happen if the mullahs start to preach peaceful coexistence, countries like Saudi Arabia, and Iran starts to allow us to build churches in their countries. Once the Muslim media stop calling us the big Satan. Once the Muslim/non-Muslim intellectuals become free to criticize Islam on their TV as our intellectuals criticize Christianity without death threats. Once their people can convert to Christianity without fearing "GOVERNMENT" persecution. THEN, and only then they can experience peace, and the rest of the world will be happy to let them rejoin the human race. It is not fair for Arab Muslim nations to spend billions of dollars on the West to propagate their hate cult, and convert our citizens to Islam without allowing reciprocation (not even one single church is allowed to be build). Only then we will have freedom of religion as it was intended to mean - PEOPLE CHOICE IS RESPECTED WITHOUT GOVERNMENT INTIMIDATIONS.

28 posted on 12/29/2004 2:27:45 PM PST by conservlib
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To: anotherview
Wadda load of crap. Suicide bombers used to walk in & murder people, the Israelis go after them & they get vilified in the world press.SO, wadda they do? They build a wall to keep the murders OUT, and THAT'S wrong? Boloney.Dmaned if they do, etc.etc.

Wait till the ivy grows on the wall, it'll be purdy,like Wrigley Field.

29 posted on 12/29/2004 2:50:23 PM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it.)
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To: anotherview

After that the IDF will have to disband, then Isrealis will have to leave their homes, walk into the sea, then there will be peace.


30 posted on 12/29/2004 2:54:13 PM PST by Semper Paratus
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To: conservlib

No mosques, no imams! End of story. No Christian churches are allowed to be built in islamic countries. Time the West returned the compliment.


31 posted on 12/29/2004 2:55:50 PM PST by Fred Nerks (Understand Evil: read THE LIFE OF MUHAMMAD free pdf. Click Fred Nerks for Link.)
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To: anotherview

I say give Gaza back to Egypt with the 'palestinians' squatters living there. No State, nothing, let's see how the scum likes living under egyptian laws.


32 posted on 12/29/2004 2:59:58 PM PST by Fred Nerks (Understand Evil: read THE LIFE OF MUHAMMAD free pdf. Click Fred Nerks for Link.)
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To: umgud
According the the muslims, will be no peace as long as there are Jews and infidels.

KaBLAM! We have a big winner here folks! This FReeper hit the proverbial nail on the head. And, by reason, we can say that there can be no peace on earth as long as there are Muslims.
33 posted on 12/29/2004 3:06:52 PM PST by broadsword (The difference between Charles Manson and Mohamed is... exactly... WHAT?)
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To: conservlib
Peace can only happen if the mullahs start to preach peaceful coexistence

Impossible! they would be preaching against the "holy" Koran, and that carries an automatic death sentence.
34 posted on 12/29/2004 3:09:42 PM PST by broadsword (The difference between Charles Manson and Mohamed is... exactly... WHAT?)
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To: anotherview

Kinda hard to drive the hated Joos into the sea with that damn wall in the way, now isn't it, Mr. Abbas?


35 posted on 12/29/2004 3:14:55 PM PST by reagan_fanatic (Oh yeah - and F the french too!)
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To: tsmith130
Peace = Pieces!

Yes, and the fence should be completed and made PERMANENT. In fact they should have an executive branch department for it. Headed by the "Secretary of de Fence!"

36 posted on 12/29/2004 3:22:57 PM PST by FreeKeys (Rats finally achieve their BIG govt and only AFTERWARDS see it can fall into the "wrong" hands!)
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To: anotherview

Well, as Rush says, peace is a direct result of victory.


37 posted on 12/29/2004 3:43:00 PM PST by Da Bilge Troll (The Compassionate Troll)
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To: anotherview
...right of return...

Indeed! RETURN to Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria from which the land was taken!

But even these countries don't want the criminals!

Abbas is just another terrorist taunting threats for peace. What a confused man. Peace holds fast by deterence, or by showing an adversary the willingness to use force in response. To "threaten" for peace only shows their true character.

Would it be entirely too much to ask the IDF to send out a couple of helos with missiles looking for Mr. Abbas and roast his vile carcass when they find it?!
38 posted on 12/29/2004 3:57:37 PM PST by hiredhand ( "Pudge the Indestructible Kitty" lives at - http://www.justonemorefarm.com)
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To: broadsword

I'm personally convinced that in Australia for example, the majority of mooselimbs wouldn't set foot in a mosque if there wasn't an imam to threaten them. We have an imam in Sydney, at Lakemba who has a site on the Net where he writes and tells the mooselimbs what will happen to them of they don't conform to islam in the most terrifying language. Most moooselimbs would cheerfully become apostate if left alone to do so. Example: a hundred or so years ago, many afghani men arrived in Australia (with camels) married local women (many married oboriginals) and those who prayed to Mecca did so quietly and peacefully, but most of them disengaged from their religion altogether. Why? Because there were no clerics! No one forced them to bow to allah or chased them into a mosque, or threatened them with death for apostasy.

Their descendants mixed with the Irish, English and Scots immigrants also...and all we have left to show who they were are a few 'afghani' men leading camels along the beach at Broome as tourist attractions...and some 500.000 feral camels in the desert. ( Australia sells camels to Saudi Arabia, apparently they run real fast.)

What's my point? Did I digress? Yep. What I am trying to say is, the West made a terrible mistake allowing islamic CLERICS into their countries. This 'freedom of religion' in fact, is not only our greatest enemy - it's also the enemy of most of mooselimb immigrants to Australia, they are literally being held hostage.
NO IMAMS, NO MOSQUES!
Islam is a CULT. Without enforcers, it cannot survive IMO.
How many 'palestinians' are also hostages? Hostages of hatred and propaganda?
Islam built three thousand mosques on ancient temple sites belonging to the Sikh in India. Islam built the al Aqsa (?) mosque on the site of the Temple in Jerusalem. A mosque is nothing but a strategy and every imam is a small time warlord a la mohammad. The cradle of terrorism is within the minds of the 'holy' men of islam. Prayer, five times a day re-enforces their hold over the poor fools who have been brainwashed since birth.
NO MOSQUES, NO IMAMS! (My new tagline?)



39 posted on 12/29/2004 4:15:33 PM PST by Fred Nerks (Understand Evil: read THE LIFE OF MUHAMMAD free pdf. Click Fred Nerks for Link.)
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To: Fred Nerks
Islam built three thousand mosques on ancient temple sites belonging to the Sikh in India. Islam built the al Aqsa (?) mosque on the site of the Temple in Jerusalem.

That's their MO. Primitive, Perverted Punks!

A mosque is nothing but a terrorist barracks.
40 posted on 12/29/2004 4:20:49 PM PST by broadsword (The difference between Charles Manson and Mohamed is... exactly... WHAT?)
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To: broadsword

"A mosque is nothing but a terrorist barracks."

Where was it in India, the sikh tore one down brick by brick until the whole thing was demolished? I watched on TV and wished that I could be there to help them. An elderly Sikh man said 'we are asking them to return ten pecent of our holy sites out of the three thousand they took from us, and if they don't, we will tear them all down, one by one'.

If the call ever goes out in Australia for a demolition team, I'll be there, I can guarantee that, and it wouldn't surprise me if there were some mooselimbs sitting at home watching it on TV - cheering. I'm by no means apologising for mooselimbs, but I do believe there are many who are simply too afraid to say what they feel and think. Especially the younger generation, who, as all young folks do, want to live like the people around them. That's what the imams are really the most afraid of. They fear losing the next generation. (And they are losing many.)


41 posted on 12/29/2004 4:35:29 PM PST by Fred Nerks (Understand Evil: read THE LIFE OF MUHAMMAD free pdf. Click Fred Nerks for Link.)
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Yehuda; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; ...
If you'd like to be on this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.
42 posted on 12/29/2004 4:54:23 PM PST by SJackson ( Bush is as free as a bird, He is only accountable to history and God, Ra'anan Gissin)
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To: anotherview

Boy, these guys really pick lousy fights.


43 posted on 12/29/2004 5:13:01 PM PST by thoughtomator (Nobody expects the secular inquisition!)
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To: anotherview
Well, there won't be a peace until Israel exists. They said it thousands of times, they prove it everyday, we know it...
So, why bother? Why do we fall into the same trap over and over again? Why do we care?
44 posted on 12/29/2004 5:22:15 PM PST by Neocon Shavuz
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To: anotherview; SJackson

The psychopathologically-hesperophobic Arabs who style themselves "palestinians" and their every last little-boy-buggaring, death-worshipping, false-fuherer-following islamofascist follower are a cancer in the body of Human Civilization and will need the radical surgery of total defeat and the chemotherapy of the application of the Ann Coulter Solution!

Or they will never never never never never never
never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never go away.

Bump


45 posted on 12/29/2004 5:31:42 PM PST by Brian Allen (For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord -- Luke 2:11)
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To: Neocon Shavuz
Well, there won't be a peace until Israel exists.

until = while?

46 posted on 12/29/2004 5:40:32 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (Am Yisrael Chai!)
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To: Max Combined

only one?


47 posted on 12/29/2004 6:07:39 PM PST by printhead
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To: anotherview

Abbas went on, "Also, no peace can transpire even without the wall. Basically, no peace can transpire, period, even if Israel were destroyed and all Jews expelled or killed. Because I have a lot of scores to settle, I think all of us here do, right boys?" [crowd assents] "with some people who are here, some who are not, some who are in Israeli prisons, and let's not forget various heads of state from neighboring countries, as well as countries which are nowhere near here. Personally," Abbas continued, "I can't think of any conditions under which there can ever be peace. I just like killing people by the thousands."


48 posted on 12/29/2004 7:08:30 PM PST by SunkenCiv ("The odds are very much against inclusion, and non-inclusion is unlikely to be meaningful." -seamole)
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Palestinians 'made millions' selling cheap cement for barrier they bitterly oppose
Telegraph UK ^ | Jul 26, 2004 | Inigo Gilmore
Posted on 07/27/2004 11:00:12 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1179577/posts


49 posted on 12/29/2004 7:10:58 PM PST by SunkenCiv ("The odds are very much against inclusion, and non-inclusion is unlikely to be meaningful." -seamole)
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To: anotherview
But reality belies Abbas. It is precisely the fence that has brought Israel the relative peace that it now enjoys.
50 posted on 12/29/2004 7:14:03 PM PST by denydenydeny
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