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PLO considers breaking agreements with Israel
Roee Nahmias
Published: 23.10.10, 12:41
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1. in that event
sleepless   (10.23.10)
Israel should reclaim the land she unilaterally gave up in 2005, in return for 8 years of missiles in southern Israel!
2. It's true
Andrew Brehm   (10.23.10)
Israel has been judaizing ancient Palestine. Even today I cannot remember a single notable ancient Palestinian, a Palestinian king or poet or even just a famous Palestinian trader. Ancient Palestinian inscriptions mark ancient Palestinian temples. And in the 15th century Palestinian fleets roamed the Mediterranaean. Palestinian traders might even have reached Cyprus or, if they were really daft, Bat Shlomo. Their entire history, so carefully constructed in the 1960s, is lost to the world forever. They might have to make up a new one.
3. What´s new?
sanna ,   sweden   (10.23.10)
Do they ever keep any promise?
4. Obama doesn't need help being a failure.
Terry ,   Eilat - Israel   (10.23.10)
Obama & his amateur-hour team of incompetent bunglers & left-wing extremists have been repudiated by most Americans. The up-coming elections will be a tsunami sweeping Democrats from Congress. Netanyahu doesn't have to do a thing to weaken Obama - Obama has done the job himself. The American public overwhelmingly supports Israel. Threats to declare a state unilaterally will have serious consequences for Palestinians. While the U.N. is anti-Israel, some countries will have great reservations about setting such a precedent. Russia & China will not like this idea at all. Obama will want to support this, possibly by abstaining at a Security Council vote. But, he will face enormous opposition & will most likely be forced to veto such a declaration at the U.N. The Palestinians do not have the necessary attributes under international law to be recognized as an independant state.
5. Historic Palestine?
Terry ,   Eilat - Israel   (10.23.10)
Hysteric is more like it. Palestine has no history, it never existed. And at the rate they're going, it never will either.
6. Great article by Dr Mitchell Bard.
Terry ,   Eilat - Israel   (10.23.10)
The blog Daled Amos has an article by Dr Mitchell Bard, ''Myth: The Palestinians Can Pressure Israel to Negotiate on Their Terms by Unilaterally Declaring Statehood.'' The article also has links to some very interesting references, particularly an analysis of international law on the subject.
7. The PA is weak and controlled but Muslim world is problem
Bloodyscot ,   Dallas, Texas   (10.23.10)
Israel has the Palestinians under their heel and intend to keep them there but Arab League and Muslim world is another matter. The Arabs lack to true leader to unity them but Iran and Turkey are moving to try with Iraq in the middle for now and could unity them in a few years. Pakistan or India could ally with one side and shift the balance of power in the region against US and Israel in a few years.
8. Andrew!
Ilana   (10.23.10)
So funny! You may be offered a new job soon-as a historian.
9. There is no such thing as historic "Palestine''
Tomy ,   Serbia   (10.23.10)
Even the world Palestine is a latinesed version of Hebrew world Pilishtim.That's how ancient Israelis called a non -Semitic Philistines who spoke a form of Indo-European language unknown today and that's how Romans renamed the Land of Israel after failled Israeli uprising of Bar Kochba 800 years after the anchilation of Philistines.Nowday Muslim Arabs who renamed themselfs "Palestinians'' after 1948 and who are in majority late imigrants of different Islamic imigration to the Land of Israel(1800-1948) and who are unable even to prounance their own new name corectly,have nothing to do with "historic Palestine'' Palestine as the Land of Israel are parts of Jewish history
10. Judea and Samaria
Aryeh ,   Arad,Israel   (10.23.10)
What historic Palestinian land ?
11. considering 'breaking previous agreements' with Israel
tiki ,   belgium   (10.23.10)
They won't have much work, as they havn't 'kept one........'warnings, warnings, warnings by the PA and Israel keeps 'building, 'inventing and 'prospering.
12. Just what agreements might they be?
John ,   Raleigh USA   (10.23.10)
I do not know of any agreement the PLO made, that they haven't broken. Do you?
13. This is new?
Emmess ,   Niagara, Canada   (10.23.10)
If they kept a promise or treaty, that would be news.
14. Yasser "Arafat" Rabbo
Brad ,   USA   (10.23.10)
Since when does the PLO need an excuse to break past agreements? Give me a break. Now, regarding Netanyahu and the American Right, weakening Obama. Amen! The Kenyan, paper President, is where he is only because he, like all muslims, is doing the work of his father the devil. The Biblical God, (the only God) will allow it only as long as it serves His purposes. He will eventually squash all opposition, and cast it into Hell, where Muhammad has been for the last 1378 years.
15. Jordan, Syria, Lebanon are ALL historic palestine
David P. ,   Capitola, CA   (10.23.10)
Israel is historic Israel
16. in that event
scott ,   lafayette, louisiana   (10.23.10)
you should check your facts before you say ridiculous things. the 9000 ILLEGAL settlers in 2005 in gaza were simply relocated to the west bank and each settler received 240,000 dollars. israel asked for a 2.2 billion bonus aid package for the transfer ... do the math what is 9,000 x 240,000 ? i would suggest to you to stop reading propaganda from the pro-israel us media and learn something substantive. israel broke the truce which sparked the gaza war. a fact that even mark regev admitted to.
17. which agreements have the pals kept?
arshile gorky ,   nyc, usa   (10.23.10)
18. Agreement
Ezra ,   Florida   (10.23.10)
Do us and yourselves a big favor: Break the so called "peace agreement". Just what part of the agreement did you ever concede? You are doing what you always do best: You bark and threaten and demand everything for yourselves, and give nothing (Because you have nothing) to give back. You cannot bring back to life all your murder victims and the destruction you so ever mastered, can you?
19. There is NO such thing as "palestinians"
Jordan = Fakestan   (10.23.10)
on March 31, 1977, the Dutch newspaper Trouw published an interview with Palestine Liberation Organization executive committee member Zahir Muhsein. Here's what he said: The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct "Palestinian people" to oppose Zionism. For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan.
20. #_2_You are right , no palestinian king, poet to be found
Guido ,   Milano Italy   (10.23.10)
You are aboslutely right, there isn't a single palestinian king, poet or whatever important figure registered anywhere in the world chronicles (nor in the small local chronicles, the villages fairy tales) because they have never existed. Thank you for opening further our eyes, Andrew Brehman: no traces of a palestinian historical past.
21. Abed Rabbo is Obama"s natural ally.
tanya ,   tel aviv israel   (10.23.10)
22. another tantrum, ho hum
izzie irgun ,   zion   (10.23.10)
Well, listen up boys and girls this is the newest tantrum by the palestiians .. they are going to break their agreements with Israel. I ask What agreements have they kept?. They continie with incitement, they make demands for talks, they inspire terroroism and they are trying to reconcile with hamas who is a terrorist group. When are these clowns going to drop the pretenses and simply sit down and work out a deal. A deal that requires both them and israel to compromise on. Until they undersand that they will not get what they want by military or political force the sooner we may have some progress.
23. Judaize?--these guys just don't like Jews
Paul Freedman ,   USA   (10.23.10)
Bibi explicitly asks for recognition of Israel as a Jewish state so that Palestine can be its own non-Jewish state and the paranoid Palestinians put reality on its head and declare this is an attempt to "Judaize" not Israel but Palestine. Say what? Why is Israel attempting to negotiate with Palestinians who are repeating anti-Jewish drivel?
24. and the second intifada wasn't breaking promises?
Danny   (10.23.10)
25. plo 'may' break agreements
moron ,   galut   (10.23.10)
not till after israel gives them their state..then,as now,nobody can make them keep their agreements especially if israel --weaker than ever- is afraid to act as in past
26. Islamist-Jihadist Crap
Brod ,   USA   (10.23.10)
Historic Palestine exists only in fantasyland and the figment of imagination of the Islamist-Jihadists. Palestine is Jordan where 70% of the population are Palestinian Islamist-Jihadists. Judea and Samaria are Israel's liberated historic homeland-Land of Israel.
27. If anyone tried to weaken a government it's Obama
USA   (10.23.10)
He tried very, very hard to weaken the current Israeli government and replace it with Kadima.
28. What agreements did they make to start with?
Jay3 ,   Israel   (10.23.10)
Not to kill any Jews or incite riots? Seems they broke that many times already!
29. Once the PLO breaks agreements with Israel, Israel will not
Jehudah Ben-Israel ,   Qatzrin, Israel   (10.23.10)
be obligated to honor these agreements either. The people who will most suffer will be the Muslim-Arab population of the territories!! So, do give it a try, Abu Rabbo, break agreements and see who will then prove Abba Eban astute observations of: "The Arabs have never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity" for peace. Yet, in order to repair matters all that you need do is get off the high horse on which you situated yourself and accept - in Arabic, Hebrew and English - Israel's LEGITIMACY, it RIGHT to be, to exist as the nation-state of the Jewish people. Such a declarative move, and it is only declarative, will signal to us, Jews, that you are serious about living peacefully alongside Israel which is the nation-state of the Jewish people. Your refusal to do so says to us all...!!
30. Oh, dearie, dearie me!
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (10.23.10)
Is that a threat? Oh, go ahead. Watch what happens to your sorry asses. FACE IT: you are a vanquished people. Do NOT press your luck with extremely benevolent Israel, that has tolerated you and your violence and your terrorism for (as far as I am concerned) far too long. PLEASE! Give us a reason. GIVE US A REASON!
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