Posted on 11/15/2008 6:39:29 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Barack Obama is to pursue an ambitious peace plan in the Middle East involving the recognition of Israel by the Arab world in exchange for its withdrawal to pre-1967 borders, according to sources close to America’s president-elect.
Obama intends to throw his support behind a 2002 Saudi peace initiative endorsed by the Arab League and backed by Tzipi Livni, the Israeli foreign minister and leader of the ruling Kadima party.
The proposal gives Israel an effective veto on the return of Arab refugees expelled in 1948 while requiring it to restore the Golan Heights to Syria and allow the Palestinians to establish a state capital in east Jerusalem.
On a visit to the Middle East last July, the president-elect said privately it would be “crazy” for Israel to refuse a deal that could “give them peace with the Muslim world”, according to a senior Obama adviser.
The Arab peace plan received a boost last week when President Shimon Peres, a Nobel peace laureate and leading Israeli dove, commended the initiative at a Saudi-sponsored United Nations conference in New York.
Peres was loudly applauded for telling King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, who was behind the original initiative: “I wish that your voice will become the prevailing voice of the whole region, of all people.”
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Bwahahahahahaha ~
Here it comes ....
If he thinks the Israelis are going to go along with that then he’s STILL smoking crack...
What is he proposing? Give the West Bank back to Jordan and Gaza back to Egypt?
Watch and pray.
And make sure you have plenty of food and ammo ...
I’ll bet he does broker a deal and I bet it holds for three and a half years.
AMEN and AMEN!
What a fool he is.
I’ve never heard Livni back this plan. If she did she would lose the election to Netanyahu. Olmert after he resigned came out he’d back such a plan, but he has no influence on his party or the country. Story is wrong.
ok, all you jewish people out there are you proud you voted for this man?
i hope Obama doesn’t think that the arabs are going to stop there
they will never be satisfied until Isreal is again Palestine
& i’m not jewish, catholic or protestant, I’m pretty much neutral
if anyone believes that the jihadist will ever relent on us out of the middle east, jews out of Isreal & the taking over Europe you are crazy.
most people don’t realize it but perhaps some of you can remember the few speaches of Farakan & Wright, well let me tell you something & this is fact you won’t see this in the US media because they are overly biased, BUT the Mullahs in the Britsh mosques preach that GARBAGE daily plus jyhad against the infidel.
& it’s not just England, my best friend w/ 15 acres behind me is from the Netherlands & Belguim & he says the same things are happening there, plus France & Germany.
Many British citizens of Pakistani decent have gone to Pakistan for (sarc) “what is it religious training”
yea right. & as a Brit it’s usually easy to get a passport to the USA. Thankfully i think in the last day or 2 they’re checking the brits a little more careful.
sorry folks but in my book i think it’s a little common sense to perhaps check an Arabs papers a little closer than the politically correct crap they play now. which is what check every 5th person even if it’s granma right.
use your head buddy, that arab you just let go behind her is probably your guy.
opps I’m sorry we can’t go on offending anybody now.
If they are dumb enough to EVER give up the Golan Heights, they will get what they deserve, and it wont be pretty.
The Jews who voted for the muslim marxist dont care about Israel.
This deal would be absolute suicide for Israel. I hope their government realizes it. As soon as Israel withdrew to the 1967 borders the next arab Israeli war would begin. And Israel would have given away any strategic advantage it has gained in the last 40 years.
Haaretz is now posting a version of this story in English but not yet in Hebrew. The push seems to be coming from Brzezinski, Hamilton, and Scowcroft. What else is new with those guys? Barak, the current Labor leader, is warm to it, but Labor will be a distant third in this election.
who are you talking to?-I sure didn’t vote for the scumbag,but I probably wouln’t be welcome at a get-together of liberal Jew useful idiots-I’m a Jew on both sides,but I have to admit-I really don’t practice the faith.My Hispanic wife says she will never understand why Jews vote for people who will sell them down the river,and she also opposes amnesty for illegals and the pardon of Ramos and Compean-most of her family is on board with that also.
Palestinians would have to recognize Israel to get this deal. If Israel gets secure borders, this is doable. Two-state solution.
she doesn’t oppose the pardon-she’s all for it-I made a little syntax error
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