Palestinian PM Urges Pressure on Israel

[La_Serpiente]

Palestinian PM Urges Pressure on Israel

QALQILIYA, West Bank - The Palestinian prime minister on Sunday urged the international community to pressure Israel to halt construction of its West Bank separation barrier, saying that time is running out for a negotiated peace settlement.

Ahmed Qureia toured a section of the barrier in Qalqiliya, a Palestinian town near the line with Israel that has been largely enclosed by the structure.

"This is the racist separation wall that intends to turn the areas of the West Bank into isolated cantons that are not acceptable to any form of Palestinian government or any form of Palestinian state," Qureia said.

Meanwhile, violence continued in the West Bank.

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Palestinian PM Urges Pressure on Israel

[meti57b]

1. About 97% of that ....

"separation barrier" is chain link fence and razor wire that supports an electronic intrusion system. As such, it is easily removed or relocated. Along with her quoting PM Qureia's use of the misleading term "separation barrier", the writer of the article should have been more forthcoming and mentioned that most of it is a fence.

late edit: typing.

[GabysPoppy]

2. Two Points

"This is the racist separation wall that intends to turn the areas of the West Bank into isolated cantons that are not acceptable to any form of Palestinian government or any form of Palestinian state," Qureia said.

1) Had the gentleman taken out the words "racist separation" from his statement, words which were meant to be inflammatory, quite possibly he would draw more attention to his needs.

2) Had he also acknowledged the need for a security fence on behalf of the Israeli people and stated what he is doing to make the necessity of it no longer valid, he would also draw more attention to his needs.

Screaming we are victims, we are victims over and over again to a Jewish population hardly generates sympathy considering world history. It hasn't worked for the Palestinians before and it won't work in the future. Maybe it's time for the gentleman to review peace treaties Jordan and Egypt have negotiated with Israel in the recent past and devise a new strategy to actually benefit his people.

A great public relations decision on behalf of the Palestinians might be for Mr. Arafat to donate some of his monies back to the Palestinians and improve their quality of life. Seeing how those monies were originally earmarked for those purposes anyway it hardly can be viewed in a negative manner.

While I am doling out free advice today, it might be a good idea to rename some of the roads and streets under Palestinian control to Elm, Main or State instead of:


* A street in the PA-ruled town of Beit Lahiya, and a public square in the PA-ruled city of Jericho, are named after Yiyhe Ayyash. Ayyash, who died in 1996, was named by the State Department as a prime suspect in the August 21, 1995 Jerusalem bus bombing in which Connecticut schoolteacher Joan Davenny was murdered.

* A street in the PA-ruled town of Al-Bireh is named after Abu Iyad (Salah Khalaf), a PLO leader involved in planning many attacks, including the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre, in which 12 people were murdered, including a U.S. citizen, David Berger of Cleveland, Ohio.

* A square in the PA-ruled city of Jenin is named after the Iraqi bomber who murdered four American soldiers in a suicide car bomb attack on March 27, 2003.

You don't see a road leading to a shopping center in Tel Aviv called Baruch Goldstein Drive.

[forgethell]

3. The Palestinians

brought the fence on themselves by their refusal to give up mass murder as a negotiating tool. Regardless of the justice of their cause, they cannot expect the Israeli government to calmly let their own citizens be slaughtered like lambs.

Racist, I don't think so. both the Arabs and the Israelis seem to have somewhat multi-racial societies, or don't you look at the pictures of the rock-thorwing "demostrators". In any event, the fence beats continuing violence, in my view