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PLO official Hanan Ashrawi explains why Palestinians oppose US Middle East planThe equally longstanding and self-serving Palestinian legislator Hanan Ashrawi, who lauded Saddam Hussein for āstanding up for Arab rights, Arab dignity, Arab prideā following Iraqās invasion of Kuwait, and notoriously opposed the historic Oslo Accords because they recognized Israel, called the Bahrain conference ādelusional, irresponsibleā and āan insult to our intelligenceā.
Ashrawi has a Sydney Peace Prize to her name and the adoration of Bob Carr and parts of the global left, but not a single, tangible legislative or diplomatic achievement in three decades of public life.
The petulant refusal of the Palestinian leadership to even consider a proposal intended to offer ordinary Palestinian Arabs an alternative to war, conflict and victimhood is a betrayal and a crime but is impeccably consistent with earlier Palestinian responses to international efforts aimed at giving them statehood.
When in 1937 the British first proposed resolving competing Jewish and Arab claims to the land through partition and the creation of a first-ever independent Arab Palestinian state, alongside a Jewish state on just 4 per cent of the British Mandate territory, the reaction of the Palestinian leadership was an outright ānoā, backed by widespread violence and calls for the āliberation of the country and establishment of an Arab governmentā.
When the UN held consultations throughout the country in 1947, again seeking to mediate peacefully rival claims to the land, the Arab leaders boycotted the proceedings.
Periodically, some Palestinian Arab leaders have admitted that their strategy of boycott backed by violence has been utterly ruinous. Palestinian jurist Henry Cattan admitted the 1947 boycott had been āunfortunateā.
Palestinian unionist Majdi Shella admitted the Palestinians āhave a long tradition of boycotting everything. Sometimes boycotting is the easier road. If you want to do nothing, boycott.ā
Yet the Palestinians have refined their instinct for rejection and political self-immolation to such an extent that they appear to know no other path.
- This is why Palestinian rioters destroyed greenhouses left to them by the Israelis following the unilateral Israeli withdrawal from Gaza in 2005.
(full article online)
- This is why last year Palestinians in Gaza set fire to the Kerem Shalom border crossing through which medicine, aid and consumer products intended for the Palestinians are transferred.
If only the Palestinian leadership really wished for peace
PLO official Hanan Ashrawi explains why Palestinians oppose US Middle East planThe equally longstanding and self-serving Palestinian legislator Hanan Ashrawi, who lauded Saddam Hussein for āstanding up for Arab rights, Arab dignity, Arab prideā following Iraqās invasion of Kuwait, and notoriously opposed the historic Oslo Accords because they recognized Israel, called the Bahrain conference ādelusional, irresponsibleā and āan insult to our intelligenceā.
Ashrawi has a Sydney Peace Prize to her name and the adoration of Bob Carr and parts of the global left, but not a single, tangible legislative or diplomatic achievement in three decades of public life.
The petulant refusal of the Palestinian leadership to even consider a proposal intended to offer ordinary Palestinian Arabs an alternative to war, conflict and victimhood is a betrayal and a crime but is impeccably consistent with earlier Palestinian responses to international efforts aimed at giving them statehood.
When in 1937 the British first proposed resolving competing Jewish and Arab claims to the land through partition and the creation of a first-ever independent Arab Palestinian state, alongside a Jewish state on just 4 per cent of the British Mandate territory, the reaction of the Palestinian leadership was an outright ānoā, backed by widespread violence and calls for the āliberation of the country and establishment of an Arab governmentā.
When the UN held consultations throughout the country in 1947, again seeking to mediate peacefully rival claims to the land, the Arab leaders boycotted the proceedings.
Periodically, some Palestinian Arab leaders have admitted that their strategy of boycott backed by violence has been utterly ruinous. Palestinian jurist Henry Cattan admitted the 1947 boycott had been āunfortunateā.
Palestinian unionist Majdi Shella admitted the Palestinians āhave a long tradition of boycotting everything. Sometimes boycotting is the easier road. If you want to do nothing, boycott.ā
Yet the Palestinians have refined their instinct for rejection and political self-immolation to such an extent that they appear to know no other path.
- This is why Palestinian rioters destroyed greenhouses left to them by the Israelis following the unilateral Israeli withdrawal from Gaza in 2005.
(full article online)
- This is why last year Palestinians in Gaza set fire to the Kerem Shalom border crossing through which medicine, aid and consumer products intended for the Palestinians are transferred.
If only the Palestinian leadership really wished for peace
(COMMENT)ā Hamas leaders have responded by welcoming the initiative to hold new elections. The leaders say they are not afraid of elections: they are confident that their movement will win. ā
ā Hamas leaders are clearly hoping that if and when new elections are held, they would facilitate its takeover of the Palestinian Authority (PA) presidency and the Palestinian Legislative Council.
Might I suggest we amend your first bullet point, (snark), and substitute an AI-AX chambered in .300 WM fitted with an S&B 5-25x56? Those speedy 230 gr. projectiles are, umm, persuasive.RE: Who Are The Palestinians? Part 2
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Yes! And American should not give a damn either. They are terminally ill nation ā no better than a failure at statehood.
(COMMENT)ā Hamas leaders have responded by welcoming the initiative to hold new elections. The leaders say they are not afraid of elections: they are confident that their movement will win. ā
ā Hamas leaders are clearly hoping that if and when new elections are held, they would facilitate its takeover of the Palestinian Authority (PA) presidency and the Palestinian Legislative Council.
Americans should in nearly all matters ā approach the Arab Palestinian with extreme caution and very slowly ā so as not to startle them.
ā Introduce yourself carefully and with a quiet voice. āHi, Achmed the Dead Terrorist!" "I would like to use you for a while ā as a training target.ā Remember, from the age six and up, they are trained in the way of the suicide vest. So you should use an overwatch with a M24 (SWS) firing SAR6-028API High-Explosive Armor-Piercing-Incendiary 7.62ā51mm; and a mounted NXS 5.5 ā 22x50 MILR.
ā If you want, hold the personās hand. ā Start by telling the person what you are doing. āAchmed, I am going to hold your hand now.ā This will help the overwatch to engage.
ā If you have a specific Congressional Letter of Marque and Reprisal under Article I ⢠Section 8(11) ⢠of the US Constitution ā read it softly.
The End.
OK, me bad!
Most Respectfully,
R