Posted on 04/21/2002 9:27:54 AM PDT by Democrats are liars
WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday that Israel should loosen its confinement of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to give him a better chance of exercising his authority in support of steps toward easing hostilities with Israel. Powell suggested that Arafat's confinement to his Ramallah compound has inhibited his ability to deliver guidance and instructions to his subordinates. "I think the more access he is given, the opportunity he is given to show whether or not he can control forces or bring this security situation under control," Powell said on NBC's "Meet the Press." Israel has confined Arafat to his Ramallah headquarters since December. He has had access to only a few rooms of his offices since Israeli troops overran the compound three weeks ago. "If he moves onto that new path and makes the very best effort he can to stay on the path and convince the Palestinian people that is the right path to lead to a Palestinian state, then there is much the United States can do for him and the peace process," Powell said. Israel has said it will maintain its siege at Arafat's compound until he turns over suspects in the October killing of Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi. The suspects are believed to be in the compound. Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said Arafat can still stop violence despite his confinement. He has authority "more than ever before, because his voice today is more powerful," Peres said on NBC. Powell also welcomed the movement of Israeli forces out of the West Bank town of Nablus, Jenin and sections of Ramallah. "I'm pleased that this withdrawal seems to be well under way," he said. The moves represented a significant scaling back of Israel's three-week old West Bank offensive. Israeli troops remained in the holy town of Bethlehem. Powell, who returned Thursday from 10 days in the Middle East, said he expects to return to the region soon. He said the United States would immediately send additional send humanitarian aid to the West Bank where the homes of hundreds of Palestinians were destroyed by Israeli forces in search of suspected militants. That assistance, he said, would include 800 family-sized tents, as well as water purification equipment and medical supplies. "The United States is committed to finding a way forward that will allow these two peoples to live together, side by side in peace," he said. "We want to see this and we're going to make it come about." The White House said Saturday said it would stay the course President Bush has charted as his Middle East policy and is discouraging attempts by lawmakers to step into the conflict with legislation. Peace in the Middle East requires "hard choices and real leadership" by Israelis, Palestinians and their Arab neighbors, Bush said. The administration was cool to former President Clinton's offer to play a role in the peacemaking effort. After defending Israel last week, and later expressing sympathy for the plight of Palestinians, Bush used his weekly radio address to make demands on all players in the Mideast. "The time is now for all of us to make the choice for peace," he said.
Send him to Allah.
What planet is this guy on?
Give him a better chance of exercising his authority?
Does working in Washington DC cause massive brainwave failure?
Does working in Washington DC cause people to be void of any historical facts?
You have misdirected anger my friend. Dubya is the source of this idiotic, misguided, double-headed approach to terrorism.
MM
Well said.
Take a gander at this:
Winston Churchill cautioned in 1939, the acts that we engage in for appeasement today we will have to remedy at far greater cost and remorse tomorrow.Former President Clinton's talk of the "Partition of Israel & Jerusalem" harkens back to the last time it was proposed in 1938, the Palestinians rejected it then too.
Palestine Royal Commission Report had called "toleration by the [British] Government of subversive [terrorist] activities, more especially those of the Mufti of Jerusalem,"1 not only Jews but moderate Arabs and those effendis engaged in a power struggle with the Mufti were murdered. As the Palestine Royal Commission Report had observed, with uncharacteristic indignation,
... intimidation at the point of a revolver has become a not infrequent feature of Arab politics. Attacks by Arabs on Jews, unhappily, are no new thing. The novelty in the present situation is attacks by Arabs-on Arabs. For an Arab to be suspected of a lukewarm adherence to the nationalist cause is to invite a visit from a body of "gunmen." Such a visit was paid to the editor of one of the Arabic newspapers last August shortly after he had published articles in favour of calling off the strïke." Similar visits were paid during our stay in Palestine to wealthy Arab landowners or businessmen who were believed to have made inadequate contributions to the fund which the Arab Higher Committee were raising to compensate Arabs for damage suffered during the "disturbances." Nor do the "gunmen" stop at intimidation. It is not known who murdered the Arab Acting Mayor of Hebron last August, but no one doubts that he lost his life because he had dared to differ from the "extremist" policy of the Higher Committee. The attempt to murder the Arab Mayor of Haifa, which took place a few days after we left Palestine, is also, we are told, regarded as political. It is not surprising that a number of Arabs have asked for Government protection.2http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~peters/appeasement.html
Read The rest of the article: Eretz Yisroel.org
"If he moves onto that new path of terrorist attacks and makes the very best effort he can to stay on the path and convince the Palestinian people that is the right path to lead to a Palestinian state, then there is much the United States can do for him and the terrorists ," Powell said.
Why should "we"(parenthetically using the "royal" we), you anti-Bushbots are using your own rope to hang yourselves.
My eyes are already on the Republican Primaries. We need a REAL conservative in the White House, and we need someone who will...
Stop illegal immigration
Plug the wholes at our borders
Veto dangerous and misguided Congressional bills
Cut spending and bureaucrocies
Execute the "Bush Doctrine" without any exceptions
Elliminate abortions (or at least push for a ban on Partial Birth Abortion which this administration is absent on
...and much much more
I am very disappointed at this time.
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