Surprised Wednesday's news hasn't been posted yet. NYTimes linky
I have a test tomorrow, discussion TBA. Overview: the longtime 2nd biggest Palestinian concern, right of return, was unilaterally pulled off the table. I'm glad to see we're doing all we can to dissuade the axes of evil from terror. And remember folks, the rules don't apply if you're brown.
PS, brief humor someone thought of: maybe the Palestinians should forget about statehood and apply for citizenship, voting rights, and equal funding for an Arab immigration program a la JNF. Certainly an offer an enlightened secular democracy can't refuse Posted by slacker (Member # 2559) on :
Can you just paste the entire article so we don't all have to register for the Times?
Posted by BrianM (Member # 5918) on :
The Palestinians have been betrayed by westerners over and over ever since the Sykes-Picot agreement. Unfortunately half of this betrayal comes from their own leaders, but in cases like this Bush has really dropped the ball.
Posted by Nato (Member # 1448) on :
Someday, somebody should just post their own login information with the link. Although pasting the text of the article is really much nicer.
Posted by Beren One Hand (Member # 3403) on :
By Dan Williams
quote:JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Riding high on an historic U.S. nod for Israel keeping Palestinian territory taken in war, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon returned home on Friday into a storm of Arab outrage and still uncertain of crucial domestic support. Palestinians said the Sharon plan for effectively annexing parts of the West Bank would kill off an already moribund peace process, and deplored President Bush's agreement that their refugees should not go back to lands now in Israel.
At the White House on Wednesday, Bush backed a unilateral Israeli pullback from Gaza pitched by Sharon as a bid to break the diplomatic deadlock after three and a half years marked by Palestinian suicide bombings and Israeli military crackdowns.
Well-informed Israeli commentators quoted Sharon, when told of Palestinian outrage, as saying: "I said that we were going to deal them a lethal blow, and they were dealt a lethal blow."
Calling Bush's move a "catastrophe," Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie urged an emergency meeting of the quartet of the European Union, United States, Russia and United Nations, patrons of a tattered "road map" to Palestinian statehood....
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Posted by Xaposert (Member # 1612) on :
How can Bush support any concessions from Isreal at all? Wouldn't that just be appeasement, and totally against his principles?
Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :
Pasting the article is technically illegal, and can open up the Card's to litigation, or cease-and-desist letters. Where that to occur, I'd bet they'd take the whole forum down, rather than deal with that stuff.
Excerpts = good. Link = good.
For the record, the NYT site is free registration, and you can always lie about your demographics.
Or use cypherpunks2002/cypherpunks2002 (it might be cypherpunk2002/cypherpunk2002, so try them both).
-Bok
Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
So long as they followed the C&D letters, no litigation could follow in this sort of instance. Also, I hope they would not shut the site down over a C&D letter -- anyone can send C&D letters, for most silly reasons, and so long as it follows certain guidelines regarding truthfulness and stuff its completely legal. For instance, I could send a C&D requesting they cease and desist using a certain smiley because I do not like to look at it. And I'd be ignored (hopefully), with good reason.
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
I hope it's not anti-semitic to say that Sharon gives me a stomachache. I blame him for the war in Iraq being delayed by a year as well.
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