PLO Wants to Roll Back the Clock
February 19, 2013 11:21 by Pesach Benson
Maen Rashid Areikat
When it comes to spin games, Maen Rashid Areikat, the PLO’s top US envoy is pretty creative. He once claimed that Canaanites were occupiers, and tried sugarcoating the idea of a judenrein Palestinian state.
Now, Areikat’s back with a disingenuous LA Times op-ed. All we have to do, he maintains, is turn the clock back to the Taba talks of 2001.
The potential for an agreement is there; we just need to create the conditions for it to succeed. The two sides can capitalize on progress made since the Taba talks of 2001. Everybody knows the parameters: a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders with mutually agreed-upon land swaps similar in size and quality, a shared capital in Jerusalem, acceptable and legitimate security arrangements and an agreed-upon and just solution to the Palestinian refugee problem based on the 1948 United Nations General Assembly Resolution 194. The success of any political process depends on clear terms of reference, a clear time frame and a clear endgame.
Good grief: Everything Areikat’s asking for now was on the table at Taba 2001.
And what’s the progress Areikat refers to? The Palestinians broke off the Taba talks, the second intifada raged on, Yasser Arafat was replaced by Mahmoud Abbas and his do-nothing doctrine. Israel withdrew from Gaza and Hamas simply took over and continued firing rockets. The PLO all but bailed out of Oslo with its unilateral statehood bid.
Progess? What progress?
If Taba is good enough for the Palestinians now, why wasn’t it good enough then?
(Image of Areikat via YouTube/Tiffany Ondracek)
alexa
3:25 pm
Feb 19, 2013
However he forget the fact ( or does he?) that we left Gaza in 2005 and it made us not really trust Palestinain . We need more assurance than we were ready to have in 2001.
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SOL DANHI
6:35 pm
Feb 19, 2013
LET US REMIND THE PALESTINAINS THAT THE UNITED NATIONS GAVE THEM JORDAN TO SETTLE IN AND THAT THE KING OF JORDAN THREW THEM OUT AS THEY WERE CAUSING SO MUCH TROUBLE THAT HE KILLED THOUSANDS OF THEM. ITS NOT THE LAND THAT IS THE PROBLEM BUT THE FACT THAT THEY ARE NOT TO BE TRUSTED. ALSO GAZA IS NOT A TENT CITY BUT A THRIVING METROPOLIS!
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Jefffrey
2:43 pm
Feb 20, 2013
Perhaps the underlying problem and the reason why it is so hard to end the occupation is that the world is trying to end the wrong occupation. The world has bought the Arab view that the Jewish state is occupying Arab land. In truth, it is the Arabs who are occupying the Jewish heartland of Judea and Samaria. No wonder many Jews do not wish to leave it.
At the moment we have a situation where the Palestinians can win but can’t lose, whilst Israel can lose but can’t win. There is no reason for the Palestinians to compromise on anything. We need a scenario in which the Palestinians can lose. Israel has been trying very hard to give them a state. Maybe it is time for Israel to drive them out.
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Henry Federman
7:12 pm
Feb 20, 2013
PLO wants to roll back the clock;OK, but let them roll back to 1000 BC and tell them that there wasn’t any Palestinians then! Why stop at 1967?
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lovezion
1:19 am
Feb 21, 2013
Bravo for these great comments!
) And look at this one too: “PLO wants to roll back the clock; OK, but let them roll back to 1000 BC and tell them that there wasn’t any Palestinians then! Why stop at 1967?” And I continue to exhort idn to go to Israel, see this and cross post widely please?:
YOUNG/HEALTHY/STRONG JEWS AND SYMPATHIZERS OF THE WORLD: STOP WHINING OR CRITICIZING ISRAEL – NO GOVERNMENT WILL HELPS US. NO ANTISEMITES EVER CHANGE. LEAVE YOUR ROTTEN COUNTRIES AND GO TO ISRAEL TO STAY AND PROCREATE IN ABUNDANCE, NONSTOP. GO FIGHT FIERCELY AS NEVER BEFORE. EMPOWER ISRAEL TO REGAIN ITS RIGHTFULLY-WON TERRITORIES AND CONQUER (On to next post)
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lovezion
1:20 am
Feb 21, 2013
(Cont’d from previous)
MORE! ISRAEL NEEDS NOT ONLY TO EXIST BUT TO PREVAIL IN FULL FORCE, INCREASING POWER CONTINUALLY TO ASSURE NOT BEING ATTACKED BY ANYONE!!! ISRAEL NEEDS YOU AND IT’S ONLY FAIR THAT YOU, YOUNG AND HEALTHY YIDS, GO AND HELP IT NOW! HOW ELSE DID AMERICA BECOME GREAT? THOSE THINKING WE CAN CHANGE EVIL… ARE NAIVE AT BEST AND DANGEROUS (USEFUL?) IDIOTS!!!
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andrew
10:43 am
Feb 25, 2013
The most interesting comment is ‘let us go back’. Yes, many people were citizens of Jordan, woke up the next day to learn they were now ‘Palestinians’ and they were ‘refugees’. It would seem that no one has asked these people exactly what they think, If we were to trace history back, the land of Canaan that God gave to Israel to inhabit is enormous in size compared to what Israel has today, and God says He will “Take back His land of Canaan”. Woe to those who help, demand and kill to remove the Israelite s from their God given home. Even the Arab’s know about God. All through history there are reports of how the nations feared the anger of God for interfering. The time is coming.
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