Israeli-Palestinian Summit Canceled

(AP)  Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday canceled a planned summit meeting with Ehud Olmert, saying the Israeli leader has failed to accept any of his suggestions for reducing tensions, such as renewing a cease-fire and releasing frozen tax revenues.

Even so, the Palestinian foreign minister said Abbas and Olmert are likely to meet later in the month in Egypt under the auspices of the "Quartet" of Mideast peacemakers. The minister, Ziad Abu Amr, said the Palestinians want the Quartet — the U.S., EU, United Nations and Russia — to work to break the deadlock.

Olmert and Abbas had been expected to sit down together Thursday in the West Bank town of Jericho in what would have been their first talks on Palestinian territory.

David Baker, an official in Olmert's office, said the meeting was postponed at the request of the Palestinians. "Prime Minister Olmert will be ready to meet with Abu Mazen at any time," he said, referring to Abbas.

Palestinian officials said they called off the meeting because Olmert has rejected their proposals.

Abbas wants Israel to release hundreds of millions of dollars in frozen tax revenues, as well as restoring a cease-fire in Gaza and expanding it to the West Bank and restarting formal peace talks.

"Israel is not responding positively to these demands, so the president decided not to go to this meeting," Abu Amr told a news conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

But shortly after, he announced that Olmert and Abbas will be invited to Cairo by the Quartet on June 25. Representatives of the 22-member Arab League — which is pushing a plan for comprehensive peace with Israel — also will attend, he said. He said EU diplomats are already preparing the gathering.

Abu Amr said the Cairo talks were important because they signaled stepped-up international involvement in breaking years of impasse between the Israelis and Palestinians.

"It will make the Quartet see by itself who is responsible for hindering any of the issues being discussed," he said.

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[kretos-2009]

"We must use Terror, Assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, & the cutting of All social services to Rid the Galilee of its Arab population."
--Israeli PM David Ben-Gurion, May 1948.

"I think the Government should put Bombs in Palestinian Hospitals, unfortunately the Govt. doesn't do it, so it is up to the people to do those things."
--Noam Federman, Israeli org. Kach, (JDL)


zionists support terror they never want peace

[neoconrcrazy]

At approximately 12:20 am on Wednesday, 6 June 2007, a large Israeli military force, comprising at least 50 soldiers, came to the house of Yehia al-Jabari. Yehia, who was 72-years-old, lived with his family in a two-storey house in the B%u2019er Haram area of Hebron city. Upon opening the front door of the house to the soldiers, Rajih al-Jabari, the 26-year-old son of Yehia, was dragged outside. Without any warning or justification, the Israeli soldiers began to beat Rajih, violently hitting his head against the wall of the house. At this point, Yehia, who had only moments earlier returned home from visiting a relative, came outside with his wife Fatima to see what was happening. Seeing the soldiers attacking his son, Yehia, who was unarmed, attempted to intervene and protect his son. While doing so, he was shot once in the forehead by an Israeli soldier; the bullet exiting the rear of his head. He then fell to the ground, where he lay motionless, presumably having been killed instantly. Immediately afterward, his wife, who was also unarmed, began screaming and attempted to reach Yehia%u2019s body. An Israeli soldier, however, opened fire on her, hitting her six times. Fatima, who was hit in numerous parts of her body, including the head and chest, fell to the ground. - human rights watch

[neoconrcrazy]

RICHARD PERLE
US Defence Policy Board
"For those of us who are involved in foreign and defence policy today, my generation, the defining moment
of our history was certainly the holocaust. It was the destruction, the genocide of a whole people, and it
was the failure to respond in a timely fashion to a threat that was clearly gathering. We don%u2019t want that to
happen again when we have the ability to stop totalitarian regimes we should do so, because when we fail to
do so, the results are catastrophic."

BBC Panorama

[bluestardad]

THIS IS NOT IN AMERICAS INTEREST!

AIPAC WE ARE NOT GOING TO GIVE YOU ANY MORE BLOOD AND TREASURE!

LAND OF THE FREE HOME OF THE BRAVE!

[neoconrcrazy]

In 1956 israel, along with UK & France pre-emptively attacked Egypt to prevent the nationalization of the Suez canal - Eisenhower forced them to stop.

In 1967, 11 years later and now 40 years ago PM Levi Eshkol, a man who did not believe in pre-emptive, or "preventive" war, was effectively outed by 12 israeli generals, led by Mosche Dayan. Nassar had blocked israeli shipping -and the israelis attacked without warning not stopping at destroying egypts' air force, but occupying terroritory in jerusalem, west bank, golan - destroying entire villages and displacing almost 1 million Palestinians from their own homes and forcing them into exile in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan.

israel created the occupation, and swift to follow terror that followed and exists and poisons their lives and ours to this day.

They also attacked with premeditation the USS Liberty in 1967 killing 147 Americans.

israel must return the stolen lands, pay repairations to the Palestinians, accept its responsibility for killing our servicemen of the USS Liberty, and conform itself to IAEA regulations.

[mattmhouston]

The Arab Peace Plan asks for 'a just solution for refugees'. I consider that to be quite a generous choice of phrasing. Sometimes it seems like Israeli officials create contention with these sorts of statements. Is it normal that all the talking is done before the meeting?

[xzavierbrown]

Posted by grazinggoat at 11:07 PM : Jun 06, 2007
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Isreal does not need Olmert..your buddies in Palestine is enough motivation. They had been motivating the jews way even before you were born. I know you know that the world was a perfect place and that the muslim's intolerance began after you stoke an interest on the matter.

what is wrong your jewish boss fired you? had a mnuslim friend gave you a shoulder to cry on??why are you so sympatethic towards the palestinians when they kill JEWS? remeber even the palestinians were raping each others arse recently..want to go over there and negotiate??

I am sure your fellow pacafist jews (which is a few) would allow what you want..THERE WOULD BE NO ISRAEL.

[xzavierbrown]

Posted by Rafterman1 at 10:32 PM : Jun 06, 2007


sure rafterman...you served your country well by watching full metal jacket.

I would like to see you go to middle east and tell a cleric in HIS FACE to *** allah..
ill pay for the one way ticket..

[grazinggoat]

funtion less than normally???I guess you cannot eat pipe bombs and rockets. If you feel that bad about it why dont you send them you fish and chips and since you are at it.send them a pint as well.
Posted by xzavierbrown

-Hey brownmatter, guess you agree with stragulating the Pals and pushing them into despair to committ such acts as they are doing. You think you are providing me with an intelligent response? Even the Israelis are agreeing on condemning the acts of barbarism IDF is commiting on Palestinians. Olmert who has this stinky reputation of not thinking longer than five seconds before taking major decisions is still taking a bad decision. He is supposed to defend Israelis security, not slaughter the Palestinians and make them kneel in front of him, in humiliation...

TurtleFace Olmert is mandated to negotiate a peace with neighbors who can function, not a crippled nation... You defend him and you're like him. Stupid, arrogant and incompetent... For the rest, Israelis need to kick this ugly personage out of politics, look for a better representative who will negotiate a real decent and just peace, not a humiliating one. That is mainly what president Abbas is looking for, but not finding with Olmert...

-Finally for the pipe bombs , well you know where to shove them...

[xzavierbrown]

ever notice how liberal athiests are very brave when it comes to catholics, christians and jews but FALL SHORT when it comes to Islam.. and I noticed that Islam DOES NOT TOLERATE any religion INCLUDING (*specially* ATHEISM..they behead them..

these liberals should pray to allah to give thier cahones back