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Abbas to EU: Give Hamas 'chance to adapt'
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Published: 16.05.06, 16:45
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1. work both sides of the street
avramele   (05.16.06)
hit the terrorists hard as if there was no peace process and negotiate with Abbas as if there was no terrorism or hamas.
2. Adapted
yakov shani ,   Israel   (05.16.06)
they are, to Mohammad, the Koran and Allah. They are incapable of adapting themselves to anything else.
3. Hamas isn't going to adapt!
(05.16.06)
EU must show some backbone or surrender to terrorists!
4. Dead man walking
Yehu Ben Zohar ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (05.16.06)
Abbas is a dead man, he just doen't know it. Hamas has him in their sites, he cannot make any deals because within days if not weeks, Hamas will kill him and there will be open warfare between hamas and IJihad.
5. give hamas a chance
beko ,   duisburg   (05.16.06)
they don't need the chance : they have the support of Israel since their creation : 1- destroy the PLO & the PA 2- they have the power 3- Iran donates money to this moslem sect :they are laundering it & spending it only to their brigades & own hamas people
6. palestinians are the most ungrateful people
mike ,   israel (formerly usa   (05.16.06)
they are GIVEN billions of dollars and they act like they are entitled to get it. they are not thankful and will curse if they don't receive it on a regular basis. is this the way of islam, to be forever beggars and spit in the face of those who give? what a noble people they are.
7. #6
Isac ,   Florida   (05.16.06)
I completely agree with you. On top of being ungrateful, Islamic Jihad threatened recently to kill American civilians and rejoiced about the death of the Floridian suicide bombing victim. What a sick society! I wouldn't give the Palis ONE dime, until ALL Palestinians renounce all violence against all Israelis and accept the fact of the existence of the State of Israel within the expanded borders without the return of refugees. To the Palis: you lost all wars and intifadas so take would you can get or you will be left with nothing!
8. Hamas should adapt the way Arafat and Abbas did?
sk ,   USA   (05.16.06)
9. # 4
yakov shani ,   Israel   (05.16.06)
Sachten wainshallah
10. Abbas to EU: Give Hamas 'chance to adapt'
Riv ,   Jerusalem   (05.16.06)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010920-8.html " any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded ..." Let's legitimize Al qaeda!! Let's give them their own state!! Let's first give them lots of (so-called) humanitarian aid. get my point? Abbas and his supposed leadership of the Palestinians flies in the face of the once Bush doctrine. Bush said: "Our military has put the terror training camps of Afghanistan out of business, ..." HOWEVER..... this does not apply to Israel putting Hamas and *worse* the *incubators* of Hamas out of business. (ha ha!!) get my point? http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0506/glick051106.php3 America embraces the Hamas fantasy http://arutzsheva.com/article.php3?id=6235 Washington's Pro-Hamas Foreign Policy Just think we have the US led quartet for peace whose members are the UN, EU and RUSSIA! Talk about having the best of the worst interests of Israel in mind.
11. Give Hamas a chance to adapt
Guido ,   Italy   (05.16.06)
Adapt to what? I undertsand Mr Abbas difficult situation, but he is a clever man and he shouldn't adapt himself to silly speaches. Adapt to what? Either Hamas gives up terror and accepts the civilized way of life, or it doesn't. It is not a footbal match, where you have to train for weeks and months before a game etc... It's a decision easy to take in three seconds, yes or no.
12. Hamas as an annoying teenager.
Yoel Ariel ,   US   (05.16.06)
ALL WE ARE SAYYYYYYYYYYYING, IS GIVE HA-MAS A CHANNNNCE!! THERE'S NO USE IN PRAYYYYYING, THEY'L GET HELP FROM FRANCE! Abbas(No stranger to terroism): "Look. they ((HAMAS)) have a little violence and anti Jew addiction. It is NOT LIKE that they can help themselves. It's a syndrome. A medical thing. Like Jock itch. They need love, understanding and a little time to work things out. You know. Anger management issues. Maybe some reaching out sensitivity classes and human warmth would not hurt either. It's an illness. Kupat Cholim could be the answer. Acting out is what is going on. Cutting them off cold and taking away their allowance is not the answer. Maybe a time out? Right ? Right? Huh?
13. "'Explosion of anger'"
Tal ,   Israel   (05.16.06)
-Typical temper tantrum tactics- by the perpetual drunk 'to the' perpetual co-dependants indeed. Dog bites.....we feed. Dog bites again but harder...we feed it more. Oh, poor dogie...we sigh. It appears in quite a perverted way, the air we breath is seemingly tied to this repetitious behavior!?!%#! All the while the rabid dog lies in wait. Now the rabid dog shakes it's finger and bears it's teeth at the very same time. (hmm) Human jumps even higher.....
14. A chance to adapt to Israeli security is more like it
Benjaman NOT BB   (05.16.06)
15. Time to adapt
Arie   (05.17.06)
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3251796,00.html
16. Abas to E U
Bachrach Anders ,   Kfar saba il   (05.17.06)
maybe I am a nudnyik,but i have some questions to that Abas.Tell me please what do you need 150 thousand head of work forceford what these workerts do?do thay make somehting productive?and when the answer is yes what they produce? You ask the free world togive hamas chance to adopt himself to requeirments?who disturbs him to adopt himself?he can do it in an hour.or you want the monay first and after it will be easier to adopt?Maybe it will be better to speak up and tell :We want the money becouse we need it to buy things and you can't tell what kind of things.You know what?you don't need to tell,becouse we know it. andy hakfarsabai
17. PA thinks whole world owes them
kez   (05.17.06)
Abbas and PA thinks the whole world owes them a life. While there are much more impoverished human beings everywhere around the world, do they cry foul and issue threats of violence like these pathetic Palestinians do?? NO! PA's should be pointing fingers at themselves instead of blaming the whole world for their problems. PA's should LIVE and Celebrate LIFE instead of glorifying death. Create, plant, work, build instead of strapping themselves with bombs to maim and kill. What a way to live life ... their sole purpose and agenda is to be a 'jihadist' ... might as well not be birth at all! Abbas's & Palestinians warning on explosion of anger with violence is the most blatant 'cowardliness' statement ever issued by a certain sect of pathetic people. Like as in a situation of "I'm-not-interested-in-working-for-a-living;feed-me-or-I'll-SHOOT". What a pitiable-miserable-contemptible and undignified sect of people!
18. What circus are they performing next ?
Gabrielle Goldwater ,   Geneva Switzerland   (05.17.06)
Abbas: This is also Abbas: PA Pres. Abbas - the new resurrected Arafat in a designer suit - to European Parliament against unilateralism - silent on actually fighting terror - The butchers involvement in Munich massacre seemingly forgiven http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33352 The Fuehrer’s Deputy” - Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen). ... Co-architect of the Oslo Agreement; Revisionist and denier of the Holocaust; Is welcomed in the EU Parliament - when actually it is a crime to be a Holocaust denier in Europe. http://www.gamla.org.il/english/article/2003/march/g1.htm Abu Mazen has made his own contribution to the denigration of those already killed. In 1983, he wrote... The Other Side: The Secret Relationship between Nazism and the Zionist Movement, wherein he suggested that the figure of six million Jews murdered by the Nazis was a false one, "peddled" by the Jews..... To bolster that thesis, Abbas quotes known Holocaust revisionists as authoritative sources... Zionists, he Abbas contends, collaborated with the Nazis to murder Jews, in order to gain sympathy for the creation of the State of Israel. It is outrageous that the BBC once could describe the author of this nonsense as a "highly intellectual man... the author of several books." This is the same MAN - The EU Parliament (US in the past) invites as the peace maker partner and moderate man. Isn't the EU for once asking Abbas to clarify his position on the Holocaust. No clear statement is/was ever forthcoming. How come ? Today, we demand The EU and US come forth with statements and face the Truth the taxpayer has a right to know the truth. http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-ratzlav-katz031903.asp
19. Palestinians need a lesson in the real world.
Eric M ,   Pittsburgh, PA   (05.18.06)
I think a civil war would do them a lot of good, since they must like to suffer by their own hands. They have been give money and land, but they can't survive on their own. This is why giving money away to solve their problems, causes more problems then they had before.
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