Posted on 04/23/2008 10:29:51 AM PDT by Alouette
Jordan's King Abdullah II told President George W. Bush on Wednesday that stalled negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis should be based on "clear grounds and fixed timetables."
Bush, beginning two days of Mideast diplomacy at the White House, met with the king over breakfast. It was a quick session; the king arrived and left within an hour.
Later, Abdullah greeted Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who also came to Washington to see Bush. They will meet on Thursday. The Palestinians and Israelis remain far apart on peace negotiations, and Abbas is seeking US help to move things forward, his spokesman said.
"The gaps are still there," said Abbas spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina. "The Palestinian and Israeli positions are still far from each other. That requires American intervention."
There was no immediate readout of the talks from the White House, but the Jordanian Embassy said Abdullah stressed the importance of US involvement and Washington's role in overcoming obstacles to progress, particularly in pressing Israel to make concessions.
"King Abdullah said it is important that Israel refrains from measures that would jeopardize negotiations with the Palestinians and called for an end to all Israeli settlement activities, a lifting of the blockade and restrictions on the movement of Palestinians," the embassy said.
En route to Washington, Abbas said that Israel and the Palestinian Authority are in constant contact with each other regarding a peace agreement and that the two sides are dealing extensively with the issue of Palestinian refugees.
"If a deal is signed between Israel and the PA, no Palestinian refugee will be left in Lebanon," Abbas told reporters on his plane.
PA officials in Ramallah told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday that Abbas would urge US President George W. Bush at their meeting on Thursday to step up his efforts to reach a framework agreement between the Palestinians and Israel before the end of the year.
Abbas will tell Bush that the Palestinians prefer a framework agreement that would lay the foundations for a permanent peace deal to a non-binding declaration of principles between the Israel and the PA, according to the officials.
Also Tuesday, before heading to the US, Abbas told reporters that "we seek a framework agreement that includes all the core issues and how these core issues will be resolved - and ending with the establishment of a Palestinian independent state."
PA Foreign Minister Riad al-Malki said that the PA president would demand a total settlement freeze and a removal of checkpoints so that both sides can reach the goal set at the Annapolis conference - a peace agreement by the end of 2008.
Khaled Abu Toameh contributed to this report
called for an end to all Israeli settlement activities, a lifting of the blockade and restrictions on the movement of Palestinians
the PA president would demand a total settlement freeze and a removal of checkpoints
These are all demands made on Israel. What's the PA going to do? Oh yeah, nothing.
And how many "refugees" is King Abdullah welcoming into his Kingdom built on Palestinian land? Oh yeah, none.
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Overthrow the Jordanian Hijazi regime & chase the rest of the Palestinians into that land.
King Abullah can kindly go and kiss a hot motocycle exhaust pipe.
What’s the difference between a Palestinian and a Jordanian?
A song. A psalm of Asaph.
1 O God, do not keep silent; be not quiet, O God, be not still.
2 See how your enemies are astir, how your foes rear their heads. 3 With cunning they conspire against your people; they plot against those you cherish.
4 "Come," they say, "let us destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel be remembered no more." 5 With one mind they plot together; they form an alliance against you-
6 the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagrites, 7 Gebal, Ammon and Amalek, Philistia, with the people of Tyre.
8 Even Assyria has joined them to lend strength to the descendants of Lot. Selah 9 Do to them as you did to Midian, as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,
10 who perished at Endor and became like refuse on the ground. 11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
12 who said, "Let us take possession of the pasturelands of God." 13 Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.
14 As fire consumes the forest or a flame sets the mountains ablaze, 15 so pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your storm.
16 Cover their faces with shame so that men will seek your name, O LORD. 17 May they ever be ashamed and dismayed; may they perish in disgrace.
18 Let them know that you, whose name is the LORD— that you alone are the Most High over all the earth.
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Watch out for, The children of Lot, Ammon and Moab.
Muslims violate and abrogate treaties. Muhammad advocated this in the Koran.
So my question is what is the Muslim Palestinian timetable for violating this treaty if there is one???
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There is already a Palestinian state and it is Jordan and Muslim. They even have a Palestinian Queen. What more could they ask for? USA does not have the money for silly games like this, and we should back away. There are more important things.
I suppose they could ask for the removal of this interloping regime from the Hijaz. But no Arab will support them against Jordan, only against Israel. I’d have Israel support the Palestinian insurgency in Jordan & use it as a dump for the rest of the Palestinians.
1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2. Son of man, set your face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against them:
3. And say to the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord God; Thus said the Lord God; Because you said, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into exile:
4. Behold, therefore I will deliver you to the men of the east for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in you, and make their dwellings in you; they shall eat your fruit, and they shall drink your milk:
5. And I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels, and the Ammonites a fold for flocks; and you shall know that I am the Lord:
6. For thus says the Lord God; Because you have clapped your hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced with all the disdain of your soul against the land of Israel:
7. Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand upon you, and will deliver you for a spoil to the nations; and I will cut you off from the people, and I will cause you to perish from the countries; I will destroy you; and you shall know that I am the Lord:
8. Thus says the Lord God; Because Moab and Seir say, Behold, the house of Judah is like all the nations:
9. Therefore, behold, I will open the flank of Moab from the cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Beth-HaJeshimoth, Baal-Meon, and Kiriatayim:
10. To the men of the east I will give, along with the Ammonites, as a possession, that the Ammonites may not be remembered among the nations:
11. And I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall know that I am the Lord:
12. Thus says the Lord God; Because Edom has dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them:
13. Therefore thus says the Lord God; I will also stretch out my hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword:
14. And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel; and they shall do in Edom according to my anger and according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, says the Lord God:
15. Thus says the Lord God; Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a disdainful soul, to destroy it in ever lasting hatred:
16. Therefore thus says the Lord God; Behold, I will stretch out my hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Kerethites and destroy the remnant of the sea coast:
17. And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them:
Israel vs. Ammon, Edom, Philistia.
Jeremiah 49
1. Concerning the Ammonites, thus says the Lord; Has Israel no sons? Has he no heir? Why then does their king inherit Gad, and his people dwell in his cities:
2. Therefore, behold, the days come, says the Lord, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire; then shall Israel dispossess those who dispossessed her, says the Lord:
Jordan's King Abdullah II told President George W. Bush on Wednesday that stalled negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis should be based on "clear grounds and fixed timetables."
...because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
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