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Abbas to Quartet: Israel must commit for talks to resume
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Published: 10.04.09, 13:42
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1. End Peace talks..
Simon ,   Malcha   (04.10.09)
Look at history, everytime Israel offers something -- we get somewhere for five seconds! It is time to move off the issue of Palestine and onto issues of education, health, electoral reform and issues that countries tend to focus on. The Palestinians should look to their Arab friends to fund the development of Gaza and West Bank; we will just defend our land and have borders! As we learnt over Pesach, Dayeinu.. it is time to move on!
2. the peace process is irrelevant when Iran
Michael   (04.10.09)
is making giant steps towards a nuclear holocaust and the world is doing nothing. The western governments are also becomming increasingly irrelevant due to their insistinence on a non existent peace process. Maybe the west will one day wake up and realize what Israel and Iran both see a morally blind Europe.
3. more one sided blah blah blah from someone whose term
Moish ,   Jerusalem   (04.10.09)
expired What about the committments that the Arabs made to Israel? Have they fulfilled any of them? Their word is not worth the paper they are written on or the oxygen wastewd in their empty utterances. Why does the world expect us to keep what an unelected 3 times indicted criminal (olmert) agreed to but does not expect the arabs to keep their promises?
4. All the Arabs want is land from which 2 launch rockets on IL
Alan ,   SA   (04.10.09)
5. 'Israel must accept two-state solution.'
Yonatan ,   Jerusalem   (04.10.09)
without the palestinians acceptance of Israels right to exist, sounds fair to me
6. When Abbas has a full mandate then he can talk
Eric ,   Tel Aviv   (04.10.09)
Abbas never spoke for all the Palestinians, and with his limited mandate expired last January he has nothing to say about what Israel agrees to or not.
7. Does Hamas agree to the Annapolis agreements - of course not
redbourn ,   tel aviv   (04.10.09)
Without Hamas, Abbas is a nobody. And with Hamas, he is not much more, because neither Israel nor the West will recognize Hamas unless it recognizes Israel. It's time for honesty, a la Lieberman. Without honesty, nothing will advance. Mike
8. Knesset never agreed ref. Annapolis
Gavriel ,   Budapest, Hungary   (04.10.09)
Onyl Olmert promised bla-bla-bla. Annapolis (and according to my view also the Road Map) equals to ZERO. Osama ops Obama can not force any other state, and Israel should not accept something which is not in its interest
9. Abbas should start to think different
YOEL   (04.10.09)
He's not use to democratic process, and thinks Omert will remain. For the sake of his own people, he should think about resigning.It's time to change power, and palestinian elections shouldn't get postponed anymore.
10. NO TALKS, NO PEACE, NO 2 STATES
Caesarea   (04.10.09)
11. Abbas's demands
Hayyim Edinburg ,   Hod Hasharon Israel   (04.10.09)
Again the Arabs are better friends than Israel's previous leaders. Every time they do something foolish they shoot themselves in the leg. No talk forget about Arab statehood -- something which was crazy anyhow!!!
12. ab-ass should be committed!
jason white ,   afula,israel   (04.10.09)
Stop the settlement activity of the palis on our Jewish land!
13. Israel must NOT commit. Israel stands between the world and
Rivkah   (04.10.09)
policy decisions that will lead to Armageddon. Joel in the Bible said dividing God's land in the end of days will lead to Armageddon and the defeat of the Gentile nations of the world by the Jewish Messiah who will rescue a third of the Jewish people who will enter a thousand year reign of peace.
14. Munich Olympics-Abbas!
The World ,   Everybody.   (04.10.09)
Don't forget he was the planner. Yasser Arafat from Fatah right hand man.
15. Me to Abbas; Why you did'nt accept to Olmert deal????
smith   (04.10.09)
16. The Pallies have said 'NO!' for years...
Adam   (04.10.09)
and their position has only strengthened. It's time for Israel to start saying 'NO!' as well. Israeli leadership has yes'ed Israel to the accepted borders being indefensible, loss of all our major Holy sites, and a state next door that is to be allowed to commit terrorist attacks by the international community.
17. Abbas : The Whore that expects Fidelity !!
Yisrael ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (04.10.09)
Give me a break ! The man talks out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and in 2 languages , and HE wants a commitment ?
18. Peace talks conditional on PA fufilling its obligations
Gee ,   Zikron Yaakov   (04.10.09)
To date the PA has not fulfilled one single obligation ever. Time for them to do what they said they would before talking about anything else.
19. Abbas the Usurper is NOT king
Brod ,   USA   (04.10.09)
Abbas should be reminded that he is not the king of Israel. He can't tell Israel what to do. He should stop thinking that Israel's biblical and historic homeland of Judea and Samaria belong to him. In fact, the usurper Islamist-Jihadists are just squatters in the Land of Israel. Their historic homeland is Arabia. It is time someone tells this scoundrel that he is an alien in the Land of Israel. The Land of Israel is GOD-given and GOD-restored to the Jews. No mortals including Abbas and his AntiSemite puppets should dare tamper with GOD's Restoration of Modern Israel in their Ancient Land of Israel as a Fulfillment of GOD's Covenant to Israel. Jeremiah 31:1-17, Ezekiel 36:24-38, Ezekiel 37:21-28, Ezekiel 39:27-29, Amos 9:14-15.
20. #16 Adam - Ofcourse they will say "NO" to your BS !
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21. Abbas is not in a position to demand!
David ,   Karmiel, Israel   (04.10.09)
He is a weak leader and commands no support from the majority of Palestinians! Actually, there already is a Two State Solution: Israel and Jordan, both created by the United Nations. Abbas should consider the Arab World's demand for Israel to withdraw from the "Occupied Territories". If that was to happen, all of the West bank would be returned to Jordan and there would be NO Palestinian State! Gaza would go back to Egypt and Ismael Haniyah and his crew of thugs can go and hide in Damascus!
22. Legitimacy : Israel and the 22 Arab League countries.
Robert Bernier ,   Tel Aviv   (04.10.09)
It should be remembered that in 1918, with the fall of the Ottoman Empire, Britain and France were handed 5,000,000 square miles to divvy up and 99+% was given to the Arabs to create countries that did not exist previously. Less than 1 % was given as a Mandate for the re-establishment of a state for the Jews on both banks of the Jordan River. In 1921, to appease the Arabs once again, another three quarters of that was given to a fictitious state called Trans-Jordan. (Jack Berger, May 31, 2004.) The total for all the 22 Arab League countries is 6,145,389 square miles (SM). By comparison, all 50 states of the United States have a total of 3,787,318 SM. Israel has 8,463 SM, about one-sixth of that of the State of Michigan. Iran, Turkey, Pakistan and Afghanistan are Muslim but not Arab and are not included. World Arab population: 300 million; World Jewish population: 13.6 million; Israel's Jewish population: 5.4 million. More at : http://xrl.us/benher
23. The Arabs are unwilling to make any concession.
Robert Bernier ,   Tel Aviv   (04.10.09)
When the enemy is an Arab entity unwilling to make any concession whatsoever, and when the world expects Israel always to give and the Arabs always to take, then to continue along that same path to nowhere, becomes an Israeli self-delusion, leading to worse: Self destruction. It is high time for Israel to be making demands upon the Arabs, starting with territorial concessions from the vast Arab world. To put things right : http://xrl.us/bjcgn
24. Jordan is the Palestinean Arab State
Gabriela ,   Argentina   (04.10.09)
That's the fair Two State Solution. 60% of the Arabs who call themselves Palestinean live there. The natural state for the Palestinians is Jordan.
25. Abbas: Israel Must Commit Suicide...
BJL ,   usa   (04.10.09)
26. YOU, ABAS, MUST COMIT!!
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27. "Israel must commit..."
doesn't matter ,   who cares   (04.10.09)
What? Suicide? Yeah, that would make 'em all happy.
28. Take a hike Abbas...
N atan   (04.10.09)
"Israel must commit for talks to resume" , or we will continue with our plans to destroy you...
29. MR. ABBAS IS WEAK. A NEW YOUNG LEADER IS A MUST !
THAT IS SO CLEAR. ,   Atilla Karagözoğlu   (04.10.09)
MAYBE YOU HAVE A LOT TIME TO TAKE ! BUT ME. WHY I AM GONNA BEAT MYSELF ALWAYS ABOUT YOUR PERSONAL HOME SUBJECTS, ALWAYS. WHY ? A GOOD WISE ENEMY MAY HELP YOU TO FINISH STUPID UNKNOWN FUTURE. NOW ! DONT ASK ME THAT WHO CAN TAKE THAT LEADERSHIP ! I OFFER YOU TO HELP HAMAS TOP GUY TO TAKE THE LEADERSHIP. I CANT REMEMBER HIS NAME NOW. I THINK HE IS LIVING IN LEBANON. HALID MARSHALL ? YES. I REMEMBER NOW. DOESNT ISRAEL DESERVE A DIRECT ENEMY BOSS ? yes. Israel does deserve true direct president of Palestine. MARSHALL FOR PRESIDENT OF PALESTINE ! than WHO WILL PROTECT HIM FROM ISRAEL IF HE LIVES IN PALESTINE ? my answer would be OBAMA ! OBAMA WILL ORDER ISRAEL THAT DO NOT TOUCH HIM ! *** very stupid comments by me above, right ? OKEY ! THINK ! I DIDNT WRİTE ANYTHING AS ABOVE. *** ı JUST GOT HOME FROM WORK. MY BRAIN IS HALF DEAD. all I can say that I AM VERY HAPPY TO NOT HEAR CHILDREEN, CIVILIAN DEATHS FROM THERE. AND NO ROCKETS TOO. HEY ! YOUR CIVILIANS ALSO HAVE RIGHT TO LIVE WITHOUT FEAR. *** WHY I AM BEATING MYSELF TO TRY TO FIND SOLUTION FOR BOTH PARTY ? MAYBE BECAUSE I TRULY HAVE HATE FOR BOTH OF YOU, MOSTLY . IF THERE WAS NO CHILDREEN KILLINGS THERE ! YOU WOULDNT EVEN KNOW MY NAME. yes. exactly. how true.
30. Abbas' term expired, his statements should be ignored
Nour ,   Palestine   (04.11.09)
...and his 'piece process' was already exposed as a ploy for Jews to occupy and annex more Palestinian Arab lands. Therefore Mr. Abbas should fade into obscurity, and be ashamed of his role in ruining Palestinian unity.
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