Militant Condemns Symbolic Mideast Peace

[drdon326]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=8&u=/ap/20031122/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_palestinians_1523


An Islamic militant leader condemned a symbolic Mideast peace deal, branding the Palestinians who helped negotiate it as traitors for making compromises with their Israeli counterparts.

The test treaty, known as the "Geneva Accord," envisions a Palestinian state in most of the West Bank and Gaza with a capital in Jerusalem. The agreement's backers have been circulating the 50-page document by mail and publicizing it in the media to build grass-roots support among Israelis and Palestinians exhausted by three years of violence.

They hope the plan, negotiated by prominent former officials from both sides, could become the basis for official negotiations, though it does not have the backing of Israeli or Palestinian governments.

In Gaza's Jebaliya refugee camp, about 4,000 Hamas and Islamic Jihad supporters, some wearing black hoods and holding up hand grenades, protested the agreement Friday.

"Those behind this document should be brought to trial because no one authorized them to talk on behalf of the Palestinian people and to betray us with this document," Nizar Riayan, a Hamas leader, told the crowd. "God willing, we are not going to give up our rights over our holy land."

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well...at least they're in touch with their emotions

[Muddleoftheroad]

1. Palestinian negotiators

Well, if I were among the Palestinian negotiators, I'd get the hell out of town or hire an army. We know how, shall we say, swift Palestinian "justice" can be.

[drdon326]

2. Heres the "judge"

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/031121/481/kcf10411211821

[drdon326]

5. And the "jury"

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/031121/481/bei10511211743&e=16&ncid=708

[drdon326]

6. And the wise men...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/031119/481/kcf10611192015

[_Jumper_]

3. Moderate Muslims

How many suicide bombings will it take for moderate Muslims to rise up and expel the fundies from positions of power in the Muslim world?

[Muddleoftheroad]

4. From the poll results

The "moderates" on terror among the Palestinians are outnumbered 3-1. Right now, it looks like the terrorists are rising up and putting down the moderates.

[drdon326]

12. I'm sure there are moderates.......

but you never hear of any specific groups and rarely
of any persons.

[tinnypriv]

7. Nice, Sharon and Islamic Jihad etc both have an identical response

I guess they want the bloodshed to continue. Oh, well.

Idiots.

[_Jumper_]

8. When are the average folks going to get?

The status quo has been a miserable failure for decades. Yet they continue to hate each other fanatically and make no serious effort to achieve a lasting peace.

[tinnypriv]

10. It would help if the US government would endorse geneva and unfreeze diplo

The US has made it clear Sharon can do whatever he likes until Nov 2004 as long as he does not "heat up" the situation too much.

Hence, the United States has made no serious effort to achieve a lasting peace either.

In fact, it has been busily preventing peace with almost every action it has taken over at least the last decade. It has gotten slightly worse with Bush, but then so has every conceivable policy you can think of.

(BTW, Geneva gives the Israelis 77% of the territory, and Palestine 23%. Gives you an idea of what kind of 'peace' the US has in mind if it won't even go that far)

[rini]

9. sigh

n/t

[drdon326]

13. Sad, isn't it.....

those palestinian negotiators shouldnt make any long
term plans.

[Classical_Liberal]

11. Members of the Knesset are calling them traitors too

You want to make extremist on both sides unhappy. This is a good thing actually.