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[BullDawg]

http://today.reuters.com/news/artic..._RTRUKOC_0_US-PALESTINIANS.xml&src=rss&rpc=22

 

[Hoyasaint]

http://www.adelphia.net/news/read.php?id=13314634&ps=1012&lang=en&_LT=HOME_WLNWC01L1_UNEWS

I'm sure all of it is just some ploy by Isreal. When will you learn?

 

[DadsDream]

Challenging Hamas, Abbas calls early elections
Dramatic move follows days of deadly factional fighting in the Gaza Strip
Updated: 53 minutes ago

RAMALLAH, West Bank - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called Saturday for new presidential and parliamentary elections, a dramatic challenge to ruling Hamas militants that threatens to touch off a civil war.

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16235716/

 

[DadsDream]

Guess who we're backing in this slugfest?

Rice to request more financial aid for Abbas
Administration wants tens of millions of dollars to boost Palestinian leader
MSNBC News Services
Updated: 3:47 p.m. CT Dec 15, 2006

WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday that she intends to ask Congress for tens of millions of dollars to strengthen the security forces of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

“We will request funding to support the security reform (of Abbas’ forces) and I think we will get support,” Rice said in an interview with Reuters, adding that the aid would be in the range of tens of millions of dollars.

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[blackadder]

http://www.adelphia.net/news/read.php?id=13314634&ps=1012&lang=en&_LT=HOME_WLNWC01L1_UNEWS

I'm sure all of it is just some ploy by Isreal. When will you learn?

No, that's a real battle that needs to be played out among the Palestinians, the total rejectionists vs. those who are willing to accept that they got shafted and move on to an accomodation with reality.

When Israel has the same sort of confontation with the lunatic settlers movement then progress might be possible. The settlers and the right wing Jews are also rejectionists because they do not recognize Palestine's right to exist.

In fact, Israeli governments have glorified in their refusal to extend the same recognition to the Palestinians that they demand from them. Famously Golda Meir, a Labor prime minister, said that the Palestinians did not exist, adding in 1971 that Israel's "borders are determined by where Jews live, not where there is a line on a map." At the same time she ordered that the Green Line, Israel's border until the 1967 war, be erased from all official maps.

http://www.virtualcitizens.com/articles/The_Trap_of_Recognising_Israel