tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971541537715440752.post5078648284844224504..comments2023-11-05T22:12:50.570+11:00Comments on Daphne Anson: The Tangled Web of Mahmoud AbbasDaphne Ansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12297188759548931101noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971541537715440752.post-61874037357730890082011-05-03T16:33:31.629+10:002011-05-03T16:33:31.629+10:00deegee
You are right.
The PA has spent the last...deegee<br /><br />You are right. <br /><br />The PA has spent the last 17 years supposedly pursuing the two-state solution with Israel. Fact is they both can't agree on the terms for reaching that goal.<br /><br />Like a broken marriage it is time for a divorce.<br />Israel needs to look for a more receptive Arab partner, perhaps Jordan, as this article suggests.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971541537715440752.post-61940696044997090702011-05-02T19:24:36.731+10:002011-05-02T19:24:36.731+10:00Abbas ... heading another organisation – the PA – ...<em>Abbas ... heading another organisation – the PA – that seeks to live side by side with the Jews in their own independent state.</em><br /><br />Actually Abbas's <i>moderate!</i> and minimal position was an independent state <em>plus return of all refugees (by UNRWA's definition including all descendants) and/or financial compenstion, Jerusalem as capital (some versions include parts of West Jerusalem like Hadassah), expulsion of all Jews while protection of rights of Israel's Arab community, next to a state of Israel of all it's people guaranteeing its eventual progress to an Arab majority and end of its Jewish character</em>. The less 'moderate' groups want all that PLUS no end of hostilities if they get it. Abbas was always evasive about this bit.deegeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17225919693539281009noreply@blogger.com