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PM Fayyad unveils plan for Palestinian state in 2 years
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Published: 25.08.09, 12:25
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1. a good move
aline ,   israel   (08.25.09)
It is certainly a good move and we as Israelis should welcome it. If the Pals are busy building a country infrastructure etc,,,they will have less time dealing with terrorism.
2. Gee Israel did that 60 years ago. What are you waiting for?
rebecca ,   Modiin   (08.25.09)
Another war?
3.  Fayyad
Ben ,   US   (08.25.09)
Can't wait to see his 'law' about land ownership, and civil rights laws and wonder how they can be applied to Gaza as well as Hamas reaction
4. It only took them 15 years...
Michael ,   Ra'anana, Israel   (08.25.09)
To realize that an infrastructure and a country don't spring up out of thin air. Now all they have to do is figure out where the money will come from. Does this mean that they'll stop stealing from the PA treasury? Somehow I doubt it.
5. Smashing an open door
Raphael ,   Netanya   (08.25.09)
By agreeing with resolution 181, Israel accepted to share its territory with an arab state. For 62 years, these Arabs, who did not call themselves Palestinians but Southern Syrians, never objected to egyptian or jordanian rule. It is doubtful that they now would give up their martyr stateless status, which opens them floods of financial compassion from the international community.
6. funny
Golan ,   SL   (08.25.09)
You do realize that an airport in the so called West Bank of the TransJordan is against Oslo and a declaration of war right? And the "airport's" future will end up like the Casino.
7. This belongs to the sci-fi section
Matityahu ,   Slovenia   (08.25.09)
News should reflect reality, not deluded wishes of a random arab.
8.  one question--
OZ   (08.25.09)
i have for all the palestinan state proponent-- how come they never cried ""occupation" prior to 1967? afterall, if jordan occupied the west bank, and egypt the gaza strip, one would expect the cries of "occupation" to start already then and then, right? only after israel beat jordan and egypt and took over ,rightfully, these territories, the palestinans begun their historically- altering campaign.strange .... or not.
9. You have wasted all the opportunities
Ana   (08.25.09)
Besides Gaza and the PA ruled territories in Judea and Samaria are not under occupation. Which prevents you from building a state but yourselves?
10. Proactive? Don't hold your breath, it's the Pals
JPS ,   Efrat   (08.25.09)
In 1993 following the Oslo signing, the Pals were on the fast track to a new government and new constitution. In only 16 years, they've managed to achieve...well, they've managed to... um, well, they've managed to get some of their act together, kind of. True, many of the institutions are in place and are working. Others are in place, and are totally corrupt and inept. Others have simply never come into being. And the Pal constitution? Well, some places claim it was approved in 2003, but they aren't really sticking to it very much.
11. What do they want really?
Ana   (08.25.09)
They could have built a state long ago. Which prevented them from doing so but themselves? They say they will build it now, no matter the absence of peace. And the PA declaration comes after the Fatah Congress has decided not to drop their charter, which calls for the elimination of Israel.
12. Gee, whizzz...
AJ - Raalte   (08.25.09)
wheren't they supposed to start building state institutions... oh, like 15 years ago? What makes the next two years different from all that wasted time?
13. Translation of What Was Said:
emanon ,   USA   (08.25.09)
"We must unify to wipe Israel off the face of the world. After that, we can fight amongst ourselves until there is only one arab left alive to see who is in charge." That's what he really means.
14. Lightbulb over their heads, no matter how dim.
Duh! ,   USA   (08.25.09)
15. Fayyad's Crap
Brod ,   USA   (08.25.09)
The occupiers, marauders, usurpers and squatters of the Land of Israel are the Islamist-Jihadists. It is time Israel liberates its biblical and historic Land of Israel completely by stopping these Islamist-Jihadist occupiers and usurpers from further usurping the Land of Israel. Fayyad's crap should be exposed as the typical Arab Islamist-Jihadist Taqiyyah (deception) to fool the world.
16. Palestine = Invadia
Doron ,   Israel   (08.25.09)
Palaestina is the name the Romans renamed Judea. Palaestina is the Latinized name of the a sea people that we called Philistines who invaded our land from Crete. Goliath in the bible was a Philistine, Yassir Arafat was not a Philistine, but an ARAB born in Egypt. Philistine originates from the Hebrew verb Palash, which means to invade. So the Arabs who started to call themselves Palestinians in the late 60's are invaders and they want to create an Invadia state.
17. build what you can pay for yourselves
zionist forever   (08.25.09)
Assuming that they get a state in Gaza and all of Judea & Samaria it will still be smaller than Israel which makes do which has only Ben Gurion as its main international airport. The arabs have Gaza international paid for by the EU and already they are planning for a second airport they probably won't be paying for themselves. With all the things they have planned it will run into many tens of billions which they don't have. Will the most pro palestinian european & american voters still be so willing to have their governments blank checks once they have their state or will they want their government financing the cost of a second airport? This defacto state won't happen without money and other than prehaps $4 billion in natural gas off Gaza they have very few assets. I would love to see them ending their economic dependence on Israel. We still provide them with alot of jobs. Almost all their fuel, electricity, water etc are provided by Israel. They still use the shekel and if they tried to break away from the shekel what would their own money be worth outside their own country? There is only one idea of theirs that Israel should consider adopting is unifying the legal system. Israels laws are currently a mixrture of Brtish, Turkish and Israeli laws and alot of the time it doesn't work well. We need to ditch all foreign laws and adopt some modern secular Israeli laws and some jewish laws which has plenty of precident to help judges.
18. Terrorists unilaterally create "state" on Israeli land
marlene ,   Philadelphia, USA   (08.25.09)
DISGUSTING. They are merely repeating the rhetoric of obama. DISGUSTING.
19. Gee, ya think?
AJ ,   Washington, DC   (08.25.09)
Its about freakin time. Although it may rob them of their precious resources in their blue ribbon commission on how Israel killed Arafat (not). This thing should have been the cornerstone of their Bethlehem convention. Oh well, bettter late than never.
20. #17 - another long winded thesis....
(08.25.09)
why do you think talkbacks are for you to write entire lectures.
21. Palestinians already have a State
Dan ,   Titusville, FL USA   (08.25.09)
The Palestinians can live in their Seaside Sewer of Gaza. Once a paradise, Hamas has turned Gaza into an open air prison sewer with a stink of terror overflowing the entire world. That is their state and they are welcome to all move there.
22. The PA does not recognize Israel
Ana ,   Spain   (08.25.09)
Former PA Security Chief in Gaza Muhammad Dahlan: We Never Asked Hamas to Recognize Israel Since Fatah Has Never Recognized Israel Either August 4, 2009 http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/2197.htm
23. "We are martyrdom-seekers "
Ana ,   Spain   (08.25.09)
Speakers at a Fatah Rally in Ramallah under the Auspices of Mahmoud Abbas: We Are Martyrdom-Seekers; Haifa, Acre, Jaffa - Part of Palestine July 27, 2009 http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/2193.htm
24. This is the same plan that debka files revealed 2 yrs. ago.
It was drawn up by ,   Condi Rice&friends.   (08.25.09)
25. dear doron
mr. x ,   los angeles   (08.25.09)
The only invaders are the Eastern European Askenazis who invaded Palestine, with their stinking black suits and amish hats. The Palestinians did not mind the sephardic jews who for the most part were Arab in culture. Trouble started with you black hats from Poland, Germany, and Russia who had a plan of creating a Jewish European state to thumb their noses at the people that were kicking them out of every major city in Europe.
26. I WONT RECOGNISE PALESTINE IF IT WONT HAVE A TRUE ARMY.
ATİLLA KARAGÖZOĞLU   (08.25.09)
27. I have just declared my own state inside of Steakiyat Hatzot
Chaim Charliehorse ,   Jerusalem, ISRAEL   (08.25.09)
on Agrippas St. in Jerusalem. My government meetings will be held at the back table, and the national food will be "me'orav yerushalmi". I'm thinking about naming the new entity "Deliciousastan". Oh wait...you can't just declare a state anywhere you want? What? Oh man. Well then why did Fayad do it? Oh.....ooooohhhhhh. Because he's an f'n retard.
28. #26 I'll do one better my friend. How about a true NAVY!!
Adam ,   Israel   (08.25.09)
29. He will be assisted by the tooth fairy and the Easter Bunny.
Bunnie Meyer ,   Los Angeles, CA USA   (08.25.09)
30. #25 - I see we're shaking with hatred
Doron ,   Israel   (08.25.09)
Israel is comprised of 50% Sephardi and many of us Sephardi Jews wear "stinking" black suits. We are not more Jewish than the Ashkenazim. Jews are a ethnoreligious people just like Druze. Although, you're able to convert to our faith, whereas you can't convert to the Druze faith. But we are not a race. We come in all colors. And us Jews that were kicked out from Arab countries are not more ethnically Jewish than those who escaped from Europe. In fact, if there was a Palestinian people they would be Jews, because when the Romans renamed Judea to Palestine, Jews were living here, not Arabs. Arabs first came here in the 7th century to spread the Khilafah, i.e. the Arab-Islamic Empire. Their arrival was witnessed by a Jewish majority in Jerusalem and other parts of Zion, who had returned to the land and multiplied after been banned by the Romans a few centuries earlier. And now, the Arabs are somehow the natives and we are the foreigners. Do you want to also claim that Arabs are the Natives of North Africa. According to geneology, descending from a long line of Rabbis and religious people, my family has lived longer than the Arabs both in Palestine and Tunisia. Also the Jews of Tunisia witnessed the arrival of Arabs bent on conquering the country. Arabs are from Arabia, not Palestine.
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