Arab governments call for full Israeli pullout to follow Gaza

AFP ^ | Aug. 15, 2005

[Alouette]

DUBAI (AFP) - Arab governments expressed the hope that Israel's pullout from the Gaza Strip will be followed by the evacuation of other occupied Palestinian lands and the establishment of a Palestinian state.

Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas acknowledged the "historic and important" nature of the Israeli pullout from Gaza after 38 years but denounced an Israeli insistance it would keep hold of its West Bank settlement blocs.

Saudi Arabia "looks forward to the Israeli pullout from the Gaza Strip being a step followed by other steps toward withdrawal from all occupied Palestinian territories so the Palestinian people can build their state, with Jerusalem as its capital," said a statement issued after the weekly meeting of the Saudi cabinet in the Red Sea city of Jeddah.

"The cabinet affirmed the kingdom's commitment to the peace initiative put forward by ... King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz to the Arab summit held in Beirut in 2002 and adopted by the summit, thus becoming an Arab peace initiative," said the statement, carried by the official SPA news agency.

The Beirut meeting of Arab heads of state endorsed a blueprint, proposed by then Crown Prince Abdullah, offering Israel peace and normal ties in return for its withdrawal from occupied Arab lands.

Lebanese President Emile Lahoud "hoped the withdrawal from Gaza constitutes the beginning of the recovery of all the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people", the ANI state news agency quoted him as telling Abbas in a telephone conversation.

For their part, the two Lebanese Shiite groups Amal and Hezbollah issued a joint statement saying "the routing of the Israeli enemy of Gaza is a high point in the long struggle of the Palestinian resistance".

They said the withdrawal "proves the effectiveness of resistance."

Jordan's King Abdullah reacted by urging Palestinians to pull together to prevent anyone from "hampering" Israel's withdrawal, an official statement quoted him as saying to Abbas.

The king also gave his "support to Palestinian Authority efforts to impose its authority on territory evacuated by Israel" calling the withdrawal "a positive step which must lead to a withdrawal from the West Bank".

In Kuwait, the cabinet voiced hope the Gaza pullout would be "the first step by Israel to end its occupation of Palestinian territories and will be followed by other steps in compliance with relevant UN resolutions".

A statement cited by the official KUNA news agency said Kuwait also looked forward to the Gaza withdrawal leading to the revival of peace efforts on the basis of the internationally-backed "roadmap."

Bahrain's King Hamad congratulated Abbas in a telephone call on the Gaza pullout, saying he hoped it was "a step on the road to the establishment of a Palestinian state" with Jerusalem as its capital, the BNA news agency reported.

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh similarly expressed hope that Israel will evacuate all occupied Palestinian and Arab territories and that an independent Palestinian state will be set up, Yemen's SABA news agency said.

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They said the withdrawal "proves the effectiveness of resistance."

The "Arab governments" are already ascribing the Israeli pullout to weakness.

[Sender]

Listening to Savage just now, discussing the significance or the date Sharon set for the expulsion in Jewish history. Second darkest day in the Jewish calendar. Destruction of both temples; expulsion of Jews from Spain, from England; the defeat of the Jewish freedom fighters in Warsaw; expulsion of Jews from Gaza. All on the same date.

I can't believe that this is a coincidence. It's a perfect date for a tragedy. Any Jews care to comment as to what comes next after such a dark day? Theoretically, of course.

[Alouette]

Now that Israel has made a concession, logic would tell us that now it's the Arabs' turn to make a concession.

But are they getting ready to make concessions?

No! What they are saying is that this concession by Israel is worthless unless it is followed by more concessions by Israel.

All the MSM pundits are following this line and saying that now that Israel has made this concessions, they should make even more concessions.

Is this logical? Does this make any sense?

[johnb838]

And then they all do what an American fighting in Iraq referred to as the "AK Monkey Jump."

They're going to be AK Monkey Jumping big time later this week.

The Lip-recon and Pawn Vannity didn't have a thing to say about this tonight. I've noticed the last couple of weeks them embargoing stories that are too hot to touch, to wit: Able Danger, and Gaza Ethnic Cleansing.

I had not known, but do now, that this is the anniversary of the destruction of the first and second temple, the expulsion from Spain, the epulsion from England, and the slaughter of 50,000 at the hands of the Nazi army in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The 5th of Ov.

Dies Irae. Dies Illa. Calamitatis et miseriae.

[sheik yerbouty]

For the record, Jerusalem was supposed to be an international city, per the armistice signed in 1949. The Arabs did not even let the ink dry before reneging on it. Arab promises are the hope of fools.

[Straight Vermonter]

Certainly you don't think a Muslim takeover of Israel is a GOOD thing?!

No, I don't. I said your comment was historically ignorant because the Moslems did "control it utterly" for 700 years. They did destroy much of what was in the country before they conquered it but there was no apparent heavenly repercussion.

[Straight Vermonter]

Agreed that the Palestinians haven’t shown much inclination to be happy with what they did have, but believe or not some Arab countries do now at least recognise Israel...

If by "some" you mean 2, then yes "some" do recognize Israel. The others still allow little or no trade with Israel and some go so far as to deny entry to their country if a person has an Israeli stamp in their passport. Obviously a lot of progress has been made in 50 years.

[johnb838]

Don't know for sure, but as over the top as Savage is much the time, his history is usually pretty solid, plus he quoted a USA Today article on it. It IS the 11th of Av today, by the Jerusalam Post, so he had that part right.

[Salem]

"Notice now they don't even bother to say "Arab East" Jerusalem any more."

Hopefully after this charade degenerates into war again, and the IDF—Divinely protected and directed—cleans their clocks royally, the knock upside the head of the House of Israel will dislodge the goofy left and they'll annex everything like they should have the first time.

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[Let's Roll]

Thank you, Ariel Sharon.

And apparently there are enough libs in Israel who still believe in the tooth fairy.

[Seeing More Clearly Now]

It is inncomprehensible that Israel would throw out communities of families who were flourishing in their towns desert and give away their land to evil terrorists with no hope of anything in return.

[SaintDismas]

Don't cry....that ain't happening. These Jewish people have seen worse in recent past generations, Sharon is already 10 steps ahead in this war. He understands this enemy better than the rest of us all put together. They will win.

[mad puppy]

"...Moslems did "control it utterly" for 700 years..."

There was an article linked here on F-R yesterday that talked about the Moslem view on land ownership that said, essentially, if at any time a section of land was controlled by Moslems, it belongs to them forever.

If they lose land in war, if they sell it, it the land becomes useless for some reason and they vacate it for 500 years, they still own it. For anyone else, particularly Jews or Christians, to live on that land is completely unacceptable. Its even gotten to the point that a Moslem with slightly different beliefs who lives on land previously lived on by "right thinking" Moslems will not be tolerated either. (think Saudi)

America is the ONLY country that can stop (really, just push back) this endless Moslem expansion. If we continue to use PC language to explain and describe this situation, I'm guessing that we won't go another 10 years without several WMDs going off in this country. If we don't aggressively deal with this PROBLEM, the USA will not exist for the full century. We'll be very lucky to get half of it.

[sheik yerbouty]

The fathers of these Arab "leaders" should have done that.