Topic: Israel has opened a can of whoopass on Arafat!
Saltah'na
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That may have been Barak. Sharon is far too.... crazed to even have the decency to offer "half the territory" for peace. Remember, Sharon is all for a undivided and unpartitioned Israel, and has basically opposed Barak's every attempt to deal land for peace. That's why Barak was turfed so easily after Sharon's infamous "visit".
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It wasn't half the territory. It was half of Jerusalem... (he'd offered to divide control over the city) which was stil WAY more than any other leader had ever offered.
This is the mind-set of the Palestinian Leadership:
Give us A, and we'll stop blowing stuff up. *they get A* Okay, you gave us A. *Blows something up* Now, give us B, and we'll stop blowing stuff up. *repeat indefinitely*
This is the mindset of the Israeli Leadership: Stop blowing stuff up, and we'll talk. *Stuff blows up* What part of 'STOP' didn't you understand? *Stuff blows up* We've been very paitient with you... *Stuff blows up* Listen, just stop blowing stuff up for one week, and we'll discuss this like rational people... *Stuff blows up* Fine. *Blows some Palestinian stuff up* *Rest of Arab world: WAAAAH! Israel is being MEAN!* Oh, come ON!
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Saltah'na
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Maybe not the Palestinian Leadership, but definitely extremists and other fringe groups like Hamas, or Islamic Jihad, or Hezbollah, etc. etc.
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I'm going with Omega and First of Two on this issue.
This is evidence that Hell has indeed frozen over.
quote:definitely extremists and other fringe groups like Hamas, or Islamic Jihad, or Hezbollah
Oh, definitely.
And definitely Arafat knows who these guys' leaders are, and probably where they are, too. He doesn't have to tolerate their actions if he doesn't want to... unless he's powerless to prevent them... in which case, he's not being that effective as a leader, is he?
It's like I tell these religious fans in our own country... start policing your OWN extremists, before you start worrying about what _I_ do.
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The American government is freezing financial assets of Hamas in our country and shutting down centers of funding for this group. The Israelis indirectly can thank the FUBARs who crashed into our buildings and fields on Sept 11 for this change of policy. For you see, our government knew of these assets and centers before the 11th and did nothing.
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But then you run into problems with inappropriate use of verbs...
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I agree with Fo2 and several of the others.
The Israelies have been very nice to the point of "appeasement".
What the fu*k more does the Palestinians want?
With Arafat's so-call "action against terrorism" there can be only two explanation.
1. He's got the power to stop it, but instead he sit on his ass and enjoy the view of Israelies getting blown apart by bombs.
2. He's got no power to stop it, but keep on yapping away on how he's the supposing leader of Palestinians.
Either way, he's an incompetent fu*k, and Sharon is right not to deal with a FUBAR like him
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quote:The Israelies have been very nice to the point of "appeasement
A lie.
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Last time I heard, Israelies were in the process of granting FULL independence to the Palestinians before the Palestinians unleashed hell.
I think with the above conditions, Israelies were pretty damn close trying to applease Palestinians.
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Take a history course before you start waving around coloured maps and coming up with theories of who was giving what to who.
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