Palestinian PM Links Calm to Statehood Talks

[drdon326]

Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie said Saturday Palestinians should halt armed violence only if there was a credible peace process with Israel leading toward a viable Palestinian state.

In linking calm to peacemaking, Qurie appeared to take a tougher line than Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian presidential election frontrunner, who has condemned violence as a strategic mistake and said talks are the sole way to achieve independence.


It was a further sign of possible tension brewing between Abbas and Qurie. Abbas has also rejected a planned London conference on Palestinian reform endorsed by Abbas, saying what was really needed now was a peace conference.


Qurie said efforts to achieve a cease-fire and advance peacemaking largely depended on Israel, which by contrast has put the onus on Palestinians to lay down arms as a condition for internationally-sponsored negotiations to begin.

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read as: Give us what we want or our terrorists to KILL YOU.

Hey, lets give them a state so they can continue these peaceful ideas.

[displacedtexan]

1. If they get a state, then what?

Will they live happily ever after?

[drdon326]

2. Oh my !!

I think you know the answer.*













*dedicated to hershel.

[andjustice4all]

3. Who is hershel?

n/t

[Forkboy]

6. a fellow progressive

[drdon326]

7. Hershel....

what can i say?

a hero amoung men.

a MAN DEDICATED to peace

a legend in his own time.



made one small mistake.

[Forkboy]

9. "made one small mistake."

Yeah,being a flaming liar.

Other than that...

[andjustice4all]

4. If they get a state?

They want Israel to be their state, so, yes, if they get that one, they will live happily ever after.

Oh, wait, there will still be intra-Arab fighting, so, never mind.

[Darranar]

5. How do you know that?

They want Israel to be their state

It isn't like the Palestinians are occupying Israeli territory, or building settlements on stolen land....

[Jack Rabbit]

8. Just what we need (/sarcasm)

Israeli leaders won't talk until there is calm and Palestinian leaders won't promise a calm until there are honest talks.

Silence = death.