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BashBrothers1989 (September 7, 2008 at 5:50 am)
Arafat could not accept those Bantustans he was offered if he wanted to die sitting down instead of standing up.Try again.
BashBrothers1989 (September 7, 2008 at 5:49 am)
Then Israel isnt a democracy but rather an ethnocentric state
jimiydoorshamelech (September 7, 2008 at 5:47 am)
same reason why a representative democracy wont work Iraq
jimiydoorshamelech (September 7, 2008 at 5:44 am)
Ehud Barak offered Arafat an eventual 91% (after many years - see section on territory) of the West Bank, and all of the Gaza Strip, with Palestinian control over Eastern Jerusalem as the capital of the new Palestinian state; in addition, all refugees could apply for compensation of property from an international fund to which Israel would contribute along with other countries.
jimiydoorshamelech (September 7, 2008 at 5:44 am)
The failure to come to an agreement was widely attributed to Yasser Arafat, as he walked away from the table without making a concrete counter-offer and because Arafat did little to quell the series of Palestinian riots that began shortly after the summit.[10][12][13] Arafat was also accused of scuttling the talks by Nabil Amr, a former minister in the Palestinian Authority.[4]
jimiydoorshamelech (September 7, 2008 at 5:42 am)
"We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion... We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem." -- Yasser Arafat, Chairman of the PLO (in front of an Arab audience in Stockholm in 1996)
jimiydoorshamelech (September 7, 2008 at 5:42 am)
In 1993, PLO chairman Yasser Arafat recognized the State of Israel in an official letter to its prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin. In response to Arafat's letter, Israel recognized the PLO as the legitimate representative of the Palestinian people. Arafat was the Chairman of the PLO Executive Committee from 1969 until his death in 2004. He was succeeded by Mahmoud Abbas (also known as Abu Mazen).
jnycnuk (September 7, 2008 at 5:08 am)
greywind: that it exists.
IfAmericansKnew (September 7, 2008 at 4:41 am)
"There is not a single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population."-- David Ben Gurion
IfAmericansKnew (September 7, 2008 at 4:40 am)
"If we thought that instead of 200 Palestinian fatalities, 2,000 dead would put an end to the fighting at a stroke, we would use much more force...."-- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, quoted in Associated Press, November 16, 2000. |
