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Palestine - serious negotiations or spurious nonsense? : Comments

By David Singer, published 7/10/2010

Israel and the Palestinian Authority have each been playing the negotiating game under different sets of rules.

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i think if there is to be reasoned discussion about this issue, especially at this particular point in time, regarding UN resolutions being a basis for negotiations and so forth, understanding perspectives and whatnot, cursory lip-service should at least be paid to the 1949 Green Line and to the democratically elected Hamas.

Abbas has as much legitimacy as Israeli promises to stop settlement construction.

it beggars belief that such superficial attention should be paid to what are in essence the flimsiest of band-aid treatments by persons in power who have nothing at stake except their own political survival.

politicians seemingly should be well placed to help in such a regard, but if a little has been learnt by anyone over the course of our histories, power begets power and the one who misses out is that person who doesn't have it.
Posted by Matt Keyter, Thursday, 7 October 2010 10:20:10 PM
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Once again David Singer is only interested in the adversarial game of proving how wrong the Palestinians are. Once again he demonstrates the very one-eyed approach that is the problem, not the solution. Only if the two sides show some understanding of each other's grievances can any progress be made. The whole dispute will continue for another 60 or 100 years unless both Palestinians and Israelis break out of this kind of point-scoring.
Posted by Michael T, Monday, 11 October 2010 8:30:54 PM
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Israel is using a well tried strategy to achieve it's ultimate objective.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabius_Maximus

I have no problem with this, if anything I'd rather it was more open and could be advanced faster.

The only reason Israel does not advance it faster is not that they don't have the military recources to do so, but the international political climate is not conducive to radical jumps in progress of a military type.
Posted by ALGOREisRICH, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 7:19:58 AM
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"Israel is using a well tried strategy to achieve it's ultimate objective," says AGIR. And that objective is to build Greater Israel, a Jew-only State that will extend from the Nile to the Euphrates.

Shame about all the countries that will be affected or disappeared by Israeli imperialism and all the people that will be killed by the IDF or put under brutal Israeli occupation much like the Palestinians.

Getting rid of the warmongering Jews from the Middle East is the only real chance for peace.

http://www.dangerouscreation.com
Posted by David G, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 10:35:12 AM
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