Wednesday, January 12, 2005

Let the Palestinian party begin

It seems that Israeli PM Sharon is doing his part to keep the "peace" with the Palestinians:



"The Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, has telephoned the Palestinian Authority President-elect, Mahmoud Abbas, to congratulate him on his election victory on Sunday - the highest level Israeli-Palestinian contact in four years.

Mr Sharon's office said the Prime Minister congratulated Mr Abbas 'on his personal achievement ... and wished him luck', and that 'they agreed they would continue talking in the near future'."




I do not trust Abbas. He has already shown himself to be a true successor to Arafat will some of the vitriolous statements he made recently. Many media outlets constantly refer to Abbas as a "moderate." I am not quite sure what a "Palestinian moderate" is. It must be similiar to a "terrorist moderate"--they blow up bus stations only on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The Palestinian culture that Arafat created is one of violence toward and contempt for anything that is Israel. The primary, unrelenting agenda of the core of Palestinians is the obliteration of Israel. The Palestinians have gone back on their word before, and I have every reason to believe they will go back on it again. I wonder what they would have to do to show the world that they can never be a legitimate state. How many times do they have to incite violence and praise the suicide bombers before the world media understands that they do not want peace in any conventional sense of the word? How many promises and ceasefires do they have to break before Europe acknowledges that they are the main problem in the Middle East? Sharon may be putting himself in political and physical danger by extending his hand to Abbas. I would hope that if (more acurately, when) the Palestinians show their true colors, many will see that Israel are not the bad guys here.

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