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Abbas heads to Washington for Obama meet
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Published: 16.03.14, 09:00
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1. the head of the Fata terror organization meets Hussein Obama
(03.16.14)
2. It ought to very clear, to both Mr. Obama and Mr. Abbas,
N.L.Katz ,   Qatzrin, Israel   (03.16.14)
that until and unless the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) - note the origin and the meaning of the name!! - which is headed by Abbas, accepts Israel's RIGHT to be, to exist as the sovereign nation-state of the Jewish people, peace will not reign in this region!!
3. The Arab routine,string along,get what they can,then walk.
PETER SM ,   MELBOURNE   (03.16.14)
4. Palestinians don't get it so they go on dreaming.
Sam ,   Canada   (03.16.14)
1) Israel is not going to allow a Palestinian right of return under any circumstances. It doesn't matter whether they call Israel Jewish state or not. 2) Also, Israel is going to go on building on the West Bank whether there are talks or not. Talks are not a "cover" for Israel to build. 3) Israelis are not going to just hand over the country to them. This is their biggest fantasy.
5. Forget about it....
BUILD BABY BUILD   (03.16.14)
obama may be getting the idea he is NOT g-d after all. Israel is not to be tampered with it is the only true refuge of Jews. BUILD WHAT'S YOURS!!!!!!
6. Abbas: A Resolute "NO" to Obama...is my
Israeli 2   (03.16.14)
best advice to you. Be more resilient and resolute than Bibi and you will be the real champion.
7. #3 and?
(03.16.14)
You are 100% right, but Israeli leaders still agree to give the Arabs free stuff. The Arabs are OK for asking, the Israeli leaders are idiots for giving and then crying.
8. The US puts the screws on Israel, Clinton eventually worked
PETER SM ,   MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA   (03.16.14)
it out and blamed Arafat the Egyptian thief for the collapse of the talks
9. A Muslim "Summiit" in WH between two radical Islamists
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (03.16.14)
10. Amazing, isn't it?
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (03.16.14)
Feting an unrepentant terrorist as if he were a head of state. A new low for Barak Hussein Obama, just when you thought he could not possibly descend any lower than he already has.
11. They´ll fantastically get along.
Erez   (03.16.14)
Two jew haters, one arab occupier posing as "palestinian" and one kenyan posing as the President of USA.
12. #4 Insisting on one's rights is not dreaming
Lynx ,   Palestine   (03.16.14)
It's sticking to principals. Palestinians were uprooted from their homes, they have every single right under the sun to return to their lands and homes, even if the homes don't stand today, they have the right to return to their nation and lands, and hold their heads high. . 64 years of exile is long enough a suffering, that nobody should endure. Even Jewish immigrants to Palestine, the ones that want to return to their Arab countries, which I doubt, should also have the right to return.
13. Obama & Abbas = Zero Credibility
Memphis Slim ,   Memphis, TN - USA   (03.16.14)
Obama stiffed his own red-line in Syria, he threw Mubarak under the bus (and promoted the MB in Egypt to the end), and he backed out of the USA's word to protect Ukraine's sovereignty in the EU/Russia/ USA/Ukraine agreement that dismantled their nuclear weapons and plants. Abbas? He is and empty facade of a Palestinian leader propped up by the EU and USA who want to paper over a worthless "peace agreement" that will end up with Israel giving and the Pals reneging. ANYONE with an ounce of brains that follows this diplomatic charade knows this whole diplomatic thing is just "busy work" to distract the these politicians from dealing with REAL issues like Syria, Russia, Ukraine, Africa - where the problems are real and they know they can't fake helping.
14. An Islamic
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (03.16.14)
15. 79
zambartut ,   Florida   (03.16.14)
Mr. Abbas? So you are 79. Don't you think it is about time to put an end to it?
16. The west doesn'y care about history or mistakes
michael   (03.16.14)
When the British split Palestine , they also agreed to the establishment of 22 arab countries if they would agree to recognizing aJewish state. In the end, the arabs received 22 states and did not recognize the Jewish state. So why in 2014, does the west think the arabs will recognize a Jewish state for one additional arab state. They got 22 for nothing.why would they make a worse deal?
17. Russia is in Crimia, plane hijackes and Hussein pressurises
Israel   (03.16.14)
18. Obama's duty is to protect US by not rewarding PLO terrorism
Dr. L. Brnd ,   San Diego, USA   (03.16.14)
Arafat and the PLO rejected, at the very end, the Clinton talks as they approached success, in which Israel agreed to them a state on 94.5% of the WB and Gaza, a sovereign safe passage across Israel, a capitol in the Jerisalem suburb of Abu Dis, at which point they raised their demand for a so-called "right-of-return" of millions of Arabs to Israel as "refugees" - Clinton and Israel properly refused to play this nonsensical game, pointing out to Arafat that there was no legitimacy to the demand since he had an independent state to house the Palestinian people. That the idea of the "2-state solution" was to create, as the UN intended, a Jewish State and an Arab state. NOT two Arab states. Arafat stormed out of the talks and launched his "Intifada" wave of violence, bus bombings and suicide terrorism - all intended to pressure Israel to "sweeten the Clinton deal". Obama has a duty to the American people to provide no reward to terrorism, which would only make another 911 slaughter by Arab extremists inevitable. The current talks should give Abbas and his PLO regime LESS, not MORE, than Arafat was poised to get from Clinton, as an appropriate punitive measure . NO reward for terrorism, or every American is put at risk. A fair number is giving the PA regime no more than 90% of what they were given at the Clinton talks. No more than 85% of the WB and Gaza, no Abu Dis capital, no sovereign safe passage across Israel, and certainly no back-tracking on recognizing the State of Israel as the Jewish State that it is, defined as such by the UN and in 8 different places in its Declaration of Independence. Abbas refusing to recognize israel as a Jewish State is the same as not recognizing it at all - you cannot claim to recognize Israels sovereignty and independence [what Abbas demands for his Arab state!] , and then turn around and claim that YOU, not THEY, can determine what kind of state Israel is. That is preposterous and a fraud. After the Arabs 911 butchery, Obama would be no less than a traitor to the Americal people if he rewards international terrorism by giving the PLO a better deal than the one they negotiated and then walked away from 20 years ago in the hope that Intifada terrorism would be profitable and reward them with even more.
19. PA "two tracks", 1..talks, 2..ICC, UNSC, BDS all of Israel
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (03.16.14)
9,14, not mine.
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