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Olmert threatens to boycott Palestinian Authority
Ronny Sofer
Published: 18.02.07, 11:18
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1. So, Munich mass-murderers are your red line?
Ben Temalion ,   Shiloh, MO USA   (02.18.07)
CIA trained snipers of force 17 are all the well to be paid sheckels though? That should make Shalevet Pas' parents proud that you only disavow the PA but still pay the mass-murderers who have a peninsular homeland of their own name but they want yours. Stop funding the mass-murderers in your midst left as an artifact of wars without surrender. The nations will fund your murderers, but why do you? They extort you yet you pay them. You deny your own soverignty over all the lands reclaimed. They must have their right of return enforced to the homicidal hamite peninsular homeland of their own name as it is only humne so they won't kill you while in your midst and you don't have to kill them. And expel those who claim all of your lands who who are not Jews and would missionize you as they kill you too. Is there no betar basis to secure your land than to be motivated to act because they come to kill you. Yet you break the skulls and trodden under hooves those that love the land. You are truely sick and loathing of the one wants you to keep your land.
2. OLMERT BOYCOTT THEM
bentham ,   singapore   (02.18.07)
The Mekah deal is a deal for the benefit and self-interest of Hamas-Fatah, and Palestinians. How they settle their despute is their business- be it was done in Mekah are else where.As far as we Israeli are concern, Abbas is still associated as an aggresor, and oppressor visa-ve terror group.As such the deal in Mekah have not changed any thing between Israel and Pals. Olmert please boycott them till they agree to denounce all acts of militant extremism and aggression toward the Israeli People !
3. the arabs can just wait 5 months and deal with Ayalon/Bibi
aaron ,   ra'anana   (02.18.07)
Olmert/Peretz is a lame duck
4. "PA must battle terror"
Avraham Rottman ,   Bet Shemesh israel   (02.18.07)
And this is a warning- if they don't do it THIS time, we're going to TELL them again
5. olmert's word are empty and useless
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6. Forget the Quartett, Ehud!
Isaac Haskiya ,   Roskilde-Denmark   (02.18.07)
Say that PA must meet Israeli conditions. Peace is not possible while Hamas exists. The more the cooks such as The Quartett, The EU, The International Community and The US, the worse the soup that Israel in the end will be obliged to drink!
7. I agree with #5; I no longer trust Mr. Olmert
Steve ,   USA   (02.18.07)
8. "Olmert to boycott P.A."
Michael Steiner   (02.18.07)
That's just great. He'll then complain there's no-one to talk to on the other side and proceed with building those ghastly settlements all over other people's territory.
9. TOO MUCH BENDING OVER BACKWARDS WILL BREAK YOUR BACK (END)
David ,   Uk   (02.18.07)
10. Who cares.
1.5 billion Muslims   (02.18.07)
Reality Check, World
11. ohlmert boycotts PA
sas ,   israel   (02.18.07)
WE, Israelis should boycott you. What are you doing to help this country???? Whatever was good you have managed to ruin. Go home with Ms. Livni and company. You all are total failures.
12. Michael Steiner #8
ash ,   gush etzion   (02.18.07)
Firstly, how can Israel talk to someone who does not even recognise Israel? Seems a little absurd!! I would like to know where those 'ghastly' settlements are? I have not seen any. And whose territory exactly are they being built on? Rhetoric is very cheap and easy if it can not possibly be backed up by facts, evidence or conclusions.
13. To #8 Abu Steiner
Franck ,   Montreal, Canada   (02.18.07)
Appeasing Arabs was a failure. Interestingly you are not drawing conclusion of these failures and only to goes on with the same inefficient policies which bring more wars and more terror. Can you explain us why the "peace" process was such a major failure?
14. more of the same ...
chris ,   canada   (02.19.07)
once again, very little constructive jewish opinion ... just more of the 'kill the arabs mentality' guaranteed to prevent peace ... and Israel does need peace to become all that it could be ... Michael Steiner has a point, one which echoes Jimmy Carter's; that it was Begin who, having promised to stop the illegal settlements, went on to call any negotiations with non-jews as not-binding on israel and encouraged the settlers ... and what if, lonely israel, what if you don't at least attempt to find a balance with your neighbours? as #10 says, 1.5 billion muslims ... surely peace and compromise is a better path than a future of war and death for your children? peace, all ...
15. Olmert threatens to boycott Palestinian Authority
Ambros Prechtl ,   Halifax, NS, Canada   (02.19.07)
So Olmert, i.e. Isreal threatens the new union government of Palestine unless Hamas -- the Palestinian government renounce violence, recognize Israel and honor accords signed with Israel in the past; to put it differently, Palestine must accept the international Quartet's conditions in full, so Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday. Do Olmert & Co. believe their own duplicity?

Palestine must recognize Israel but Israel does not need to recognize the right ot the Palestinians to a country of their own in what little land remains to them.

Palestine must renounce violence but Israel can aggress at will -- bomb from the air, send high-tech rockets into the occupied territories and into Gaza, destroy vital power stations. If the Palestinians fight back, they are terrorists, and -- yes, you guessed it -- anything goes against terrorists.

And the road map of the Quartet... it stipulates that Israel withdraw behind the 1967 boarders. What does Israel do? Instead of going back to the borders of 1967, it invades deeper and deeper into what little land remains to the Palestinians with their illegal and offensive settlements. The settlements occupy the choicest parcels of land in land that does not belong them. Let Israel end the occupation of Palestine.

Let Israel formally recognize the right of the Palestinians to a country of their own; let ISAREL renounce violence; let Israel go back beyond the borders of 1967 and see how Hamas will respond. Israel is the aggressor, non? The Palestinians have a right to defend themselves, non? If ISRAEL accepts the conditionso of the Road Map in full, there will be no more need for the Palestinians to "defend themselves."

16. 14 peace is better than war, but requires recognition
NL ,   Israel   (02.19.07)
Peace and compromise is better for Everyone's children than war. However, compromise is an impossibility if the other side refuses to acknowledge your right to exist. In Israel, there is no such lack of acknowledgment. Yes, there are Jews who believe Palestinians should be incorporated into Jordan and Egpyt, but they are the minority. Even right-wingers such as Bibi concede that the Palestinians should get an autonomous state. The main issue of contention between major Israeli parties is when that should happen: what parameters should be used to determine that such a state would live peacefully with Israel (aka, the terms of a PA state, but not the concept are in debate). In contrast, the main Palestinian issue of contention is, in fact, the RIGHT of Israel to exist. This is a critical distinction, and one that you overlooked in your oversimplified sentence that implied that Israel's can just 'choose' peace. You also selectively talk about Israeli and US leaders. Begin was indeed a champion of the settlements. But, he also agreed to alienate many of his constituents and uproot the communities in Sinai in order to forge peace with Egypt (Also please provide actual evidence of the alleged quote of him saying that deals with non-jews don't need to be honored) Such hawk to dove behavior is what is required, but not yet seen, from the Palestinian government. "Peace, all", as you say, requires peace for Israelis, as well as for Palestinians. Regarding Carter, he openly disliked Begin (see his biography; this makes me again question the accuracy of your assertion about Begin, since you say it's made by Carter). He also made the point that he would have rejected the Camp David 2000-1 agreements - a rejection that has been labeled a mistake by Arab leaders as well as American ones. As such, you'll have to excuse me if I don't place a lot of stock in Carter's sentiments or the veracity of his statements.
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