At Last – A Larry, Curley, and Moe Middle East Peace Plan!
November 17, 2006
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What wonderful news for the P alestini
ans and their many terrorist friends – Spain, Italy, and France are going to promote a new peace plan to replace the road map. Spain’s Prime Minister Jose Zapatero said, “We cannot remain impassive in the face of the horror that continues to unfold before our eyes.” He was referring to the struggle that has gone on between Israel and the Palestinians since Israel became a nation, but the real reason these three countries have come up with the plan is that they are being eaten alive by Islamic terrorists in their own countries, and are always seeking a way to placate terrorism by compromise, rather than confrontation, which they think will at least give them temporary relief from the criticism of their own electorate.
The Palestinians should love this new plan, and ought to jump on it like a duck
on a bug.
It will be a formula for the destruction of Israel, and many liberal congressmen are likely to get on board, not necessarily in rhetoric, but in deed. If Senator Hillary Clinton should win the 2008 Presidential race, rest assured that the huge Jewish constituency in New York State, which she has cleverly placated to get and keep her office, will suddenly find itself and Israel abandoned.
Begin Jerusalem Post Article
Spain, France and Italy promote new Peace Initiative
Associated Press, THE JERUSALEM POST
November 16, 2006
Spain will sponsor a new Middle East peace initiative along with France and Italy, the prime minister said Thursday, stressing that the international community cannot remain idle as violence rages between Israel and the Palestinians.
Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero announced the initiative at a summit with President Jacques Chirac of France. “Peace between Israel and the Palestinians means to a large extent peace on the international scene,” Zapatero told a news conference.
“We cannot remain impassive in the face of the horror that continues to unfold before our eyes,” Zapatero said.
There are hopes in Europe for a greater voice in world affairs, particularly after midterm US elections in which voters punished President George W.
Bush and gave control of Congress to the Democrats.
Many on this side of the Atlantic hope the results will usher in a more humble US foreign policy, in which Washington seeks the advice and input of its European allies, rather than dictating policy to them.
There was no immediate reaction from Israel, the Palestinians or Washington to Thursday’s announcement.
Zapatero cited the Israeli shell blast that killed 19 people last week in a Palestinian village and the death this week of an Israeli woman in a Palestinian rocket attack.
The violence, he said, “has reached a level of deterioration that requires determined, urgent action by the international community.”
The peace plan will be presented to an EU summit next month, Zapatero said, adding he hopes to win the backing of Britain and Germany as well.
He said it had five components: an immediate cease-fire, formation of a national unity government by the Palestinians that can gain international recognition, an exchange of prisoners – including the IDF soldiers whose kidnapping sparked the war in Lebanon and fighting in Gaza this summer – talks between Israel’s prime minister and the Palestinian Authority Chairman and an international mission in Gaza to monitor a cease-fire.
Eventually, a major international conference on Middle East peace should be held, he added, but did not specify if such a meeting should take place in Spain. Spain hosted a landmark peace conference in 1991 that laid the groundwork for
the Oslo accords, which in turn led to the creation of the Palestinian Authority.
Middle East peace, Zapatero said, “is one of the factors that can contribute most to cornering fanaticism and terrorism.”
Europe’s efforts to help broker a peace deal have hit some speed bumps recently, and the continent could face problems this time as well.
Many in Israel view European leaders as pro-Palestinian and are wary of their motives.
Last month, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos, a leading European voice on the Middle East, said that the “road map” plan for peace between Israel and the Palestinians was fatally stalled and that Europe should take the initiative to come up with a new plan.
Israeli and Palestinian officials were quick to reject his comments as overly pessimistic.
Both sides insisted that the road map was not dead, just in serious need of a mechanism for implementation.
The US-backed road map, devised in 2003, called for the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state alongside Israel, but it never got off the ground because neither side lived up to even their initial commitments under the blueprint.
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