Posted on 11/08/2009 5:07:38 PM PST by bruinbirdman
The Palestinian leadership outlined a fresh strategy of defiance towards the United States yesterday by announcing its intention to consider a formal abandonment of the Middle East peace process.
Just days after Mahmoud Abbas, the moderate president of the Palestinian Authority, announced his intention to quit, his colleagues gave warning that they were prepared to deploy the much feared "nuclear option".
Officials in the West Bank told The Daily Telegraph that the most important Palestinian decision making bodies were preparing to meet to discuss a proposal to dissolve the Palestinian Authority itself.
Such a move would signal the end of limited self-government in the Palestinian territories set out by the now defunct Oslo Accords of 1993 and as such end all hopes of a resolution to the conflict with Israel.
Even so, some Palestinian officials signalled they were prepared to discuss the long-feared "nuclear option" in response to what they described as Israeli intransigence and American betrayal.
But at least one Palestinian official suggested that the debate was mainly designed to escalate pressure on the United States after Hillary Clinton, the secretary of state, appeared to signal growing support for Israel within the Obama administration.
"We in the movement back dissolving the PA," said Tayseer Nasrallah, a member of the Palestinian National Council, the legislative body of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO).
"We would use this as pressure on the United States to commit itself to the peace process." Mr Abbas, a moderate voice of conciliation and America's closest Palestinian ally, announced his decision not to stand in elections scheduled for January shortly after Mrs Clinton praised an Israeli offer to limit the construction of Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
Her comments appeared to represent a shift in policy by the Obama administration, which had earlier demanded a
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I didn’t know they were ever part of the peace process. As a matter of fact, they are at the center of the problem, not the solution.
This is truly unbeleivable. What a amateur.
We have a child in the Whitehouse. The child has no clue what he is doing (or for that matter wants).
How will we know when this happens?
“Palestinians consider abandoning peace process.”
What a joke. I’m pretty sure the Palestinians abandoned the peace process back in 1974.
The Palis were only in it for the money.
They can’t do this. Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Gee, this really worries me. I mean, what with all the peaceful gestures they’ve made over the years, the concessions, the pleadings for peace...what will happen now? Sheeeeesh.
Members of the religion of peace abandoning the peace process? And we know how peaceful those Paleostinians are don’t we? Wasn’t our homegrown terrorist pig, Major Hussein, I mean Hassan, the spawn of a Paleostain immigrant family?
And now our POtuS President Hussein Osama has talked about his experience reciting the Muslim call to prayer as one of the most beautiful sounds he has ever heard, has imported some Gazans (American taxpayers paid for these alien eggs to be sent over from Gaza) to join some of his Paleo brothers and sisters in the struggle against the infidels.
That means they will shoot 10 rockets at Israel instead of the usual 9
I must have missed the time they were actually part of the peace process.
The Palis are soon going to declare the Palestinian State and will get international recognition.
Breaking News!
Sun Considers Rising In the East!
Wild Bear Considers (*$@#*^@ In The Woods!
Nighttime Is Characterized By Periods Of Darkness!
Hamas says, “No more Mr. Nice Guy”
Why are we not surprised!
There is no "peace process." There is only our tax dollars being continually spent to give the appearance that there is such a thing. This is a dare. Keep paying us off and you will continue to get photo ops.
Palestinians abandoning the peace process? How shall we know when they start?
ROFLMAO!!!
Abandoning the process implies they were once a part of it...we all know that’s a falsehood.
In practical terms this doesn’t mean squat, as the palis have never wanted a real peace process with Israel to begin with.
Correct. It is funny that the Palestinians want to give up opn peace, while the Iranians decided not to ship their Nuclear material.
They sucked the Bam bam boy in and he fell for it.
We have a President that doesnt know squat.
Translation: Muslim terrorists correctly sense weakness and incompetence in their fellow Muslim Brother and jihadist; active jihad to increase until Brother Hussein Obama re-engages the slow jihad.
Uberkapos Emmanuel and David to open "Just Lampshades" chain store franchises next year.
Paging Captain Obvious. Please pick up the white courtesy telephone.
Good!!! I’ll pop the popcorn so we can watch Israel push them all into the sea!!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
Call their bluff. Its not like the PA is worth a damn anyway.
Pali’s were never in the peace process.
They just pretended for the lick spittle press and politicians.
He knows. He has the CIA (remember - he wasted no time calling CIA guilty of torture, his Atty. Gen. holds prosecution over all of them, conspiracy) and probably all Israeli intelligence up until he was elected. Probably none after.
Barack bin Hussein al-Obama Kenyata has given the Iranians plenty of time to work on the bomb. His "diplomats" have given Syria plenty of time to arm Hezbollah with rockets that can reach Tel Aviv.
yitbos
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381523/posts
I just read this thread which seems to be the opposite of what this article is saying.
" the opposite of what this article is saying."
Looks right in line to me.
yitbos
The Administration and any PR they let out is nefarious.
yitbos
OK. Thanks.
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