Arafat: Time for Two-State Solution Is Running Out
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Yahoo Reuters:
bq. Palestinian President Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) warned in an interview published on Saturday a barrier being built by Israel in the West Bank threatened the two-state solution at the heart of the U.S.-backed peace road map.
bq. Arafat's comments came as the United States, the main peace broker in the Middle East, signaled its efforts to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks have reached a stalemate.
bq. "Time is running out for a two-state solution," Britain's The Guardian newspaper quoted Arafat as saying in an interview from his West Bank headquarters in Ramallah, where Israeli forces have penned him down over the past two years.
bq. Israel has threatened a unilateral separation along the line of the wall snaking through the West Bank that it says is being built to keep out suicide bombers. Palestinians call it a bid to annex or fragment occupied land and have said they could respond by demanding a single bi-national state.
Like duuuhhh... The Palestine Arabs never wanted a two-state solution, ever. They want the dissolution of Israel and they will settle for nothing else.
In English, they will talk and talk and say how they would love a two-state solution if only Israel would come around to their viewpoint. If you visit some of the sites that translate the Arabic sermons, speeches, news articles, you will find a completely different viewpoint - one firmly dedicated to the eradication of the Jewish state of Israel.
The League of Nations and subsequently the U.N. offered them large chunks of land for their own state and they refused. For a long time they were sponsored by the Soviet Union in order to help destabilize the area and keep the US presence to a minimum. Now with the Soviet Union and Communism gone away, the Palestinian Arabs are turning to other states for funding their terror.
Posted by DaveH at January 24, 2004 7:25 PM