January 8, 2004

Queria comes clean

From the Shark blog comes this story about the Palestinian Prime Minister and Palestine's real political goal: bq. Palestinian "Prime Minister" Ahmed Queria finally admits that the Palestinians' only real goal is to nullify Israel's existence: Palestinian PM says two-state solution in danger bq. There is nothing new in the demand for a "bi-national" state. And it would "bi-national" only in the sense of permitting the minority of Jews who are not slaughtered and who do not flee to live as second-class citizens. bq. Any Palestinian acceptance of a "two state solution", which only emerged in the Oslo period, was only ever a fraudulent tactical ploy. A ploy to buy time, win international support and weaken Israel in order to continue the armed struggle, which, as the Palestine National Charter says, is "only way to liberate Palestine". And whatever lip-service was given to a "two state solution" was always contingent upon a "right of return" to both of those states. Arafat's rejection of Barak's 2000 offer for an independent Palestinian state should have proven to everyone the hollowness of his commitment to "two states", but the international community of dupes gave him another pass. bq. Qureia's desperation in abandoning the "two state solution" only proves that Sharon's unilateral disengagement plan is a smart move. Let Qureia whine and moan, and then try to declare war on Israel from the other side of the fence. These people need to get their heads out of the sand, get rid of Arafat and start getting their collective butts in gear. Civilization is rapidly passing them by. Arafat is a corrupt tool of the old Soviet cold-war in that region. They wanted instability there so the USA or Israel would not develop a strong presence/threat. Now that the Soviets are gone and Russia is struggling with problems of her own, these creations are staggering around like dinosaurs hurting innocent people... Posted by DaveH at January 8, 2004 1:49 PM