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Officials: Trilateral summit may be solely symbolic
Roni Sofer
Published: 21.09.09, 08:12
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1. Are you sure Obama and his henchmen
Steven Wilson ,   Anchorage, Alaska   (09.21.09)
aren't going to grab Bibi and throw him on the ground, while force feeding him some more nonsense about the Arabs wanting peace as well as Iran? Oblah blah wants to spout verbal diahrhea at Israel, because they aren't towing his fascist idea's now? What's new from the spoiled one, who has given in to terrorists, and given up on the United States. Everything is up for sale in the Obama administration.
2. Better a symbolic meeting than a Covenant with Death for
Rivkah   (09.21.09)
Israel that Daniel in the Bible spoke of. Armageddon is believed by some from Daniel's vision to be seven years after the Covenant wtih Death is signed by Israel. The Prophet Joel says dividing God's land will lead to Armageddon. That has happened several times already and no one seems to learn that such treaties are a farse because they call God a liar when He gave His land to the Jews. God gave so much more land and wealth to the descendants of Ishmael and Esau, but they are going to lose it all and be goat nations in the Millenium because of their persecution of the Jews. There is still time to stop persecuting the Jews and to leave them alone and evacuate the Palestinians to other Muslim nations since there are so many Muslim nations. Hindus and Muslims in India had to part just as Palestinians and Jews must part or the world will become more dangerous than it is. A third of the world's population or 2.2 billion people are going to die in World War III. The only was to head that off is to stop calling God a liar. Give the Jews what God said He gave to them and then leave them alone.
3. Until and unless the Arabs come to terms and accept
Eitan ,   Qatzrin, Israel   (09.21.09)
Israel's right to exist as the nation-state of the Jewish people little can be expected in advancing towards a peaceful accommodation between the parties. The Arab Israeli conflict - not, mind you the Palestinian Israeli conflict - is derived from the Muslim-Arabs' total refusal to accept Israel's legitimacy. It is within this context that things must be examined and Israel's insistence on recognition of right and security needs must be appreciated. Israel has made many gestures towards an accommodation of peaceful coexistence. It has permited the PA to be established. It has enabled it to maintain security forces. It vacated Gaza and parts of Judea and Samaria. Yet the Arabs want more, and more and more and all that they have given in return up to now have been sucide bombers and Qassam rockets. It is time to findally recognize Israel's right to be, to exist as the nation-state of the Jewish people if progress is to be expected.
4. Nothing new...
SYMBOLIC ,   IL   (09.21.09)
IT"S ALWAYS SYMBOLIC
5. summit symbolic
observer   (09.21.09)
it is what is going to follow the summit. A historic UNGA is going to discuss Climate changes & nuclear arms spread; said to involve Iran & N. Korea. The most distressing is going to happen. The US policy under Obama's administration has been vague and what characterizes it is no policy; it doesn't conform to specific sets. Obama has distanced himself till now from shocking decisions. But, that would not the case after prelude of symbolic summit showing good intention. Israel is going to face the existential threat of being forced to sign the NPT!
6. PM must go on the offensive
DT ,   TA Israel   (09.21.09)
The message should be "we have given all that we will be giving and now we are building because we got nothing in return " The Palestinians never wanted peace and their intention is to destroy Israel by stealth
7. I agree with Eitan. When the Arabs come to terms
Avigdor Reuveni ,   Israel   (09.21.09)
and accept Israel's legitimacy there will be a realistic chance of reaching a sustainable peace. So far, their approach has been negative regarding the very existence of israel and the fact that it is the national home of the Jewish people, a fact that the world has come to realize toward the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, but for the Arabs who stood in the way and initiated several wars against the tiny Jewish community of Israel aiming to annihilate it. I hope Obama and his advisors finally come to terms too with the real core issue of the dispute and deal with it face on.
8. The Quran, the Jews and the “Palestinians”.
Ron B. ,   Lod   (09.21.09)
The Quran, the Jews and the “Palestinians”. It is well documented in the Quran that the term "Israel" or "Children of Israel" refers to the twelve sons of Jacob and their descendants. The Quran also prophesies the State of Israel in 1948 in surah 17 verse 104 when Allah would gather the "Children of Israel" out of various nations and return them to their land from exile. Palestinians are anti-Mohammed, anti-Quran and definitely anti-Allah. Allah will curse the Palestinians for interfering in his will for the Jews. The land of Israel belongs to the Jews. Palestinians have to leave the land and go to the surrounding Arab nations.
9. Its not even symboloic its a photo op for Obama
zionist forever   (09.21.09)
Even if Bibi wanted to accept Obamas demands he can't his coalition would colapse. Obama can tell a dictaitor what to do and he could say ok and do it overnight. Unfortunately for Obama in democracies its not that easy. Bibi has to keep his coalition partners happy & he follow the will of the people which is right wing at the moment. Obama also helped create some of these problems by promising the arabs & muslims anything they want and trying to hurt Israel every chance he gets. Now Abbas is putting up his demands by saying we don't even start talks until Israel freezes all settlement building. Under Bush he wouldn't have been so ambitious he would have entered talks unconditionally and tried to get as many concessions he could out of Bibi and he would have got somethiing even if its not everything he wants. Now he is playing hard man he won't even get a meeting so he won't get anything. This whole summit is about Obamas falling popularity ratings. The US jews who don't understand the reality of how things work want to see him doing something about the peace process so if he can't deliver any real results he just makes alot of noise about settlements and holds summits which get his picture in the paper of him with Bibi & Abbas together. Remeber all the photo ops with Arafat? Nobody seriously believed all the smiles & handshakes were anything but photo ops. The problem with this whole peace process from the start has been its constantly been based on deadlines mainly for the egos of US presidents wanting the deal to be done on their watch. Take deadlines out the picture and it would be slow but steady progress made. Model T Ford gets you there even if its not as fast as a grandprix racing car. Obama is looking for a quick fix. Create an arab state within 2 years he can go to the US jews in 2012 and say look its created more problems than its solved and not working but I delivered my promise and created an arab state so dont forget to vote for me.
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