An amazing piece by Robert Novak in the Washington Post 2 years ago nearly, saying that Hamas would not controvert the Palestinian Authority's acceptance of the state of Israel, but that the Bush Administration turns a deaf ear, including Novak's old friend Elliott Abrams, who won't return his call. Israel, too, ignores the Hamas "olive branch… Says a Hamas minister: "I don't think the Israeli government wants a two-state solution.
Without pressure from the president of the United States, nothing is
going to happen."
-
-
- Netanyahu govt to impose fines on mayors of cities that … 8
- Resume builders: Be a broken record on Iran, cheer authoritarians … 22
- UN Committee: Israeli system ‘tantamount to apartheid’ 0
- Slater on Beinart 22
- And we live on… 4
- US official — we went to Israel first 13
- Israel lobby’s favorite senator tries to erase Palestinian refugee status … 31
- Israel takes 30 dunams of land near Salfit ‘for security … 4
-
- BDS victory: South Africa strips Ahava’s ‘made in Israel’ label 713
- Video: Israeli mob demands all African refugees be deported from … 478
- Day after pogroms, Likud MK calls for internment camp for … 433
- ‘This is not fair play’: Mahmoud Sarsak’s family demands his … 397
- March of the Flags 347
- Neocons in Washington Post: Military strike on Iran would ‘calm … 326
- Nabi Saleh’s Bassem Tamimi convicted by Israeli courts based on … 293
- Rafah’s nicest tunnel: Siege meets surf in Gaza 224
-
- The Messiah’s Donkey: Settlers fire on Palestinian villagers as the … 235
- Aharon Appelfeld’s rage at the German language (and Arendt’s need … 156
- US to differentiate between ‘personally displaced’ Palestinian refugees and their … 131
- March of the Flags 127
- Affirming a Judaism and Jewish identity without Zionism 117
- Feeling the hate in Long Island 97
- Israeli judge to issue verdict in Rachel Corrie case 94
- WaPo’s Walter Pincus says US is ‘going above and beyond … 87
-
Recent Comments
click link to see last 100 comments- US to differentiate between ‘personally displaced’ Palestinian refugees and their descendants (140)
- Israel lobby’s favorite senator tries to erase Palestinian refugee status for millions (31)
- Netanyahu govt to impose fines on mayors of cities that employ migrant workers (8)
- Slater on Beinart (22)
- aiman: “A discussion of the social/organization functions of religion are well beyond the scope of the...
- Resume builders: Be a broken record on Iran, cheer authoritarians in Gulf (22)
- Daniel Rich: The UN should set up shop in Antarctica, so everyone stays cool and nobody can tell anyone else not to...
- Annie Robbins: abdul, yeah read about bbc deceit w/iraq 03 photo here: http://www.moonofalabama.or...
- Samuel T: It is common place among [diplomatic entities] to hold to two separate accounts of what took place. The...
Our Writers
More WritersBlogroll
Israel has derailed all meaningful peace offers, has violated almost all truces and will never sit down and honestly negotiate without a gun to their heads and a kick in the teeth that only America can render.
But America had been circumcised. It feels nothing much.
The Hamas minister whom Novak spoke with was one of 33 elected officials arrested by Israel a month after the interview. He was held for four months.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasser_al-Shaer
*******************************************
FROM ABOVE: Says a Hamas minister: "I don't think the Israeli government wants a two-state solution. Without pressure from the president of the United States, nothing is going to happen."
FROM ME: Dov Weisglass, Ariel Sharon’s closest adviser at the time, candidly stated that the disengagement from Gaza was aimed at halting the peace process, not encouraging it. He described the disengagement as “formaldehyde that’s necessary so that there will not be a political process with the Palestinians.” Moreover, he emphasized that the withdrawal “places the Palestinians under tremendous pressure. It forces them into a corner where they hate to be.”