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Israel rejects Franco-Spanish peace initiative
Attila Somfalvi
Published: 17.11.06, 01:13
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1. Maybe France shouldn't threaten the IAF?
sk ,   USA   (11.17.06)
2. Ofcourse Israel rejects it, its a peace plan!
Harry ,   Kansas   (11.17.06)
3. Peace initiative?
Francois ,   Montreal, Canada   (11.17.06)
This is not at all a peace initiative and these morons are even unable to prove that this will bring peace.
4. Dear EU:
marya ,   sacramento,USA   (11.17.06)
Why don't you follow in O.J.'s footsteps and write a book about it. You can call it: " If We Were to Destroy Israel, This is How We'd do it!" Stay the hell out of Israel! You can't even save yourselves from the Islamic takeover in your own countries. Europe is going down for the count and you're not taking Israel down with you ...
5. Throughout Israel's existence,
NTI ,   Red Chili   (11.17.06)
foreign powers, especially the UN, wil step in only when the muslims are on the verge of defeat. They are mostly here to rescue the muslims.
6. And Spain got the nerve...
Matt K. ,   Victoria, BC, Canada   (11.17.06)
... - I do not recall Israel ever trying to solve her problems in the Basque Country. What a bunch of islamofile lunatics...
7. PA will be a second Hizbullah for Israel
Sal Azam ,   Chicago USA   (11.17.06)
Israel will face the same difficult and humiliating situation it faced with Hizbullah in August 2006. It will launch a unilateral war against so many countries Iran, Syria, Lebanon... and will be defeated by the world community under the UN with the U.S against Israel for the first time in its history.
8. Is she the ONLY minister with a set of balls?
Arie ,   Afula   (11.17.06)
9. Full determination !?
(11.17.06)
What happened to your determination with Hezbullah ??
10. Where are the kidnapped soldures ?
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11. Peace in Middle East........Not!
efi g ,   washington dc   (11.17.06)
On the one hand Israel asks the whole world to stop Iran. On the other hand Israel rejects help from Europe to make peace in the middle east. Israel behaves like they are the only ones living on this planet. If it werent for the USA, Israel would not exist. If Israel would go 1 on 1, Mano a Mano with the Arabs, with equal weapons, Israel would lose. Think about it.
12. NO FRANCO-SPANISH-EURO PEACE PLAN!
Elana ,   LA, USA   (11.17.06)
Europe murdered Jews for almost 2000 years. They must wait another 2000 years before they can expect to be trusted with anything that has to do with Jewish lives. It's obvious that they're looking to appease Hitler's Arab allies because Europe knows that they're targets for terrorism. Handing over the Jews didn't help Europe fight off Hitler. It won't help them fight off his Arab allies either. Fight your own battles against terror and leave the Jewish people alone!
13. Wonderful news!
enzo ,   london,uk   (11.17.06)
She is GREAT! You made my day, Tzipi Livni.
14. EVERYONE is always trying to----
Ely Greenhut ,   Jerusalem Israel   (11.17.06)
make peace with Israel & the Palistinians. No one seems to care that Sudan has invaded Chad & is in the process of doing ethnic clensing of starving blacks. For years all these leaders tried to make Peace between Israel & her Arab neighbors without success while there are worse crises to deal with in the world. Israel so far has managed to take care of itself quite well. DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME WITH ANOTHER FALSE PEACE OFFER.
15. isreal doesn´t seek peace
ricardo ,   portugal   (11.17.06)
They slam all the offeres unless the usa has part of it, and we all know that the israel is the 52th state of america, so any offer that comes from them is just in advantage for israel,it is a shame
16. Don't worry Sal Azam, Arabs are permanent aggressors
Jake   (11.17.06)
Time to see the mirage from the reality, my friend. As always, the aggressors are, and as always will be, the Arabs, with their false ideology and warped logic and belligerent aggressive religion.
17. Israel rejects !
(11.17.06)
The Europeans only wanted to show the world who is rejecting peace ,who is the real terrorist and who is the war mongers.
18. Israel needs more time to steal the Jordan valley
A Bethlehemite   (11.17.06)
How could you refuse something you havent even seen, studied or discussed with the architects of the peace plan? Sharon and the almighty idf couldnt stop the violence in 5 years; can Israel be more obvious with its real intentons? Violence begets violence
19. #7 Sal Azam - Israel and Hezbollah
Elana ,   LA, USA   (11.17.06)
Hezbollah embedded itself so completely into civilian areas that its fighters were ALL counted as civilians during the recent war when they were killed in combat. Israel would have had to kill a severe number of Lebanese human shields to fight Hezbollah properly. Israel chose not to do it. THIS TIME. Eventually, Israel is going to have to fight her enemies properly no matter HOW many human shields they hide behind. Israel's enemies' worst nightmare is if Israel decides to REALLY FIGHT the terror gangs regardless of their human shields. If/when it comes down to 'kill or be killed,' Israel will have to shoot the human shields to get to the terrorists. Israel WILL do it. Israel's enemies are counting on Israel not wanting to hurt civilians, but Israel will not give up 5.4 million Jewish lives to save her enemies' human shields. Hezbollah's 4000 rockets killed less than 100 Israeli civilians last summer. If Israel truly aims at Hezbollah next time through their human shields, Hezbollah will die. Same with Hamas, Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades, etc.
20. No peace is possible via a "peace deal."
Chanah W. ,   Chicago, USA   (11.17.06)
21. No peace is possible via a "peace deal."
Chanah W. ,   Chicago, USA   (11.17.06)
"Peace deals" only bring WAR to Israel. Enough wars are already in progress or waiting on deck. Israel doesn't need to sign up for new ones. Thanks anyway, Europe. Now get lost.
22. France isn't interested in enforcing UN 1701
Ilan ,   Ariel   (11.17.06)
So why should anyone trust them to enforce anything in Lebanon. This is from the League of Dhimmis (France and Spain) who have decided that to toady up to the Arabs is the same as bringing world peace. If your friend had a frontal lobotomy would you have one too?
23. to those who don;t live in Israel and re #11
A   (11.17.06)
If you people don't live here, shut up. You are arm chair generals and don't even understand the full complexity of the situation. You just repeat whatever media garbage you see/hear and parade that opinion as your own. The Palestinians have the offer for peace on the table, let's recap: First,as a sign of goodfaith there was Unilateral pull out of Gaza -this pull out left a 150million$/year infrastructure that would produce fruits and produce -Palestinians DESTROY said infrastructure and launch Qassam rockets into Sederot nearly a month afterwards, claiming Israel left Gaza because they 'beat' us. Promise for funds -all Palestinians have to do is agree to work with Israel and we (along with the US, EU, UN, et al) will provide funds to the PA -Palestinians elect Hamas, a group sworn to Israel's destruction. This group allowed for terror attacks and paralyzed talks And to the comment 11, efi g: You are very bad at history. If you knew anything about Israel, you would know that Israel won all of its wars against multiple arab armies (in 1948 there were 7 countries that declared war againsst Israel!) and the US did NOT lift a finger. We did it on our own and by ourselves. Stop with your deluded theories that US is somehow in control in Israel or that we Israelis are in control of the US. I don't see you bleeting on about how Hizbollah got money/weapons from Syria and Iran. The genocide in Darfur is perpatrated with Chinese weapons, are you screaming about that? No. And about equal weapons...For years the Arabs had superior weapons and vehicles. Israel has steadily built up the technology and arsenal. We probably wouldn't (its very expensive) if Arabs would stop trying to destroy Israel. It's easy to point out other people's problems and much easier to solve them when you don't have to live with the consequences. I noticed most nay-sayers aren't Israeli. You can say what you like, but how bout you go ask the people of sederot what its like before you comment
24. # with all respect to u , but may i correct u
dafer ,   jerusalem   (11.17.06)
it would defenetly will not need 1 on 1 , israel can keep all its weapons excluding its air force , and all the arabs need to do is each one spit on israel , and it will drown .
25. internationalize
isiaiah   (11.17.06)
internationalize the whole middle east but dont let in nazis communists or fanatic religious just realists and humanitarians .
26. to #15
denon ,   boston, usa   (11.17.06)
52-nd, you moron, there is no such thing as 52th. And speak for yourself when you say things like "we all know". Like you ever made any offers that weren't to advantage of islamofascists, that by the way killed 200 of your bodies Spaniards - but that's Ok with you, the Europeans. What else can one to expect from you - if it wasn't for Russians you would all have been a province in the 3-rd (or as you say 3-th) Reich. - If it wasn't for United States, you would have been 16-th (yeah, it is Ok in this case) republic in USSR. bunch of apeasers and losers - that who you are. Shame on you.
27. Sderot
bernard ,   winston-salem USA   (11.17.06)
Move ALL Isreali based UN offices and operations to Sderot immediately.
28. #2 You are really blind
Arul ,   Malaysia   (11.17.06)
Harry, Looks like you are the victim of one sided media propaganda that always puts Israel as the aggressor ,who doesn't want peace. The international bodies are also biased towards Arabs( and their oil). Israel stopped the Lebanon war agreeing to the conditions. But in this, Israel was cheated heavily. UN could not get the release of the soldiers as well it could not disarm Hisballah. When one side of the table, doesn't want to fulfill their committments, why should Israel agree to every single, so called peace initiative that only helps the terrorists.
29. palestinians are too busy terrorizing to make peace
mike ,   israel (formerly usa   (11.17.06)
the problem is not that the US and EU are not engaged or there is not a good plan - the problem is that palestinains are doing NOTHING towards peace. it's not like they are having trouble implementing a phase or obligation in a procees toward peace - they are doing NOTHING. sorry, i shouldn't say that they are doing nothing. actually, they are doing the OPPOSITE of any definition of what peace is. instead of figuring out how to remove the international imbargo on them, for example, they are ACTIVELY shooting rockets into israel and holding a hostage. they unashamedly REFUSE to negotiate because they refuse to acknowledge they even have someone to talk with. peace? palestinians? can't happen because it's not possible with them.
30. #11 - About stopping Iran.
Chanah W. ,   Chicago, USA   (11.17.06)
You wrote: "On the one hand Israel asks the whole world to stop Iran." Israel is pointing out quite correctly that the whole world is in danger from Iran. Iran wants to rip up the Arab world with nukes, especially land that Arabs keep claiming they find to be "HOLY" to them (ie, Israel.) If the Holy Land is holy to Muslims, then why allow Iran to nuke it? If Iran gets the Middle East into a nuclear war, the Arab world will lose Mecca, Medina, and all sorts of other places. Iran executes 16 year old girls for being molested by men in their 50s. Iran gives 100 fatal lashes to young boys who eat during the day in Ramadan. If the west is taken over by Iran, this is the life everyone will face. Iran is a danger to everyone. Admadinejad believes he is bringing forth the "hidden imam" by embroiling the world in a nuclear holocaust. If you hate Jews so much that you'd rather let Iran destroy the world than to do something you think Israel wants the world to do - then say goodbye to everything you love and know why you're saying it.
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