New Palestinian Prime Minister ready to step down instead of giving in to Arafat

prontospyder

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According to Israel Radio, the United States, European Union and other Arab countries have been urging Arafat to show flexibility toward Abbas.

President Bush said in March he would send details of the road map to the Israelis and Palestinians as soon as the prime minister's office was filled.

Abbas was one of the first Palestinian leaders to make contact with Israeli peace advocates.

According to the PLO, Abbas was a signatory of the 1993 Declaration of Principles that launched the Palestinian-Israeli peace process. Two years later, Abbas signed the Interim Peace Agreement, known as the Oslo Accords, with Israel.
 

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For the good of the area and all involved Arafat must go.
It's time for the moderates in the Palestinian Authority to step up and take control.
If they don't Arafat will have succeeded in killing yet another chance for peace.
 

Alistar7

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Originally posted by: Tiger
For the good of the area and all involved Arafat must go.
It's time for the moderates in the Palestinian Authority to step up and take control.
If they don't Arafat will have succeeded in killing yet another chance for peace.

Does he remind you of someone? Puts himself before his people and their cause.....lol.

Where is the rest of the Arab world in helping this process.......
 

Dari

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arafat is from another time...another world. The new reality doesn't accept his presence.
 

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Originally posted by: Tiger
For the good of the area and all involved Arafat must go.
It's time for the moderates in the Palestinian Authority to step up and take control.
If they don't Arafat will have succeeded in killing yet another chance for peace.

You're right, Arafat must go, but so must Sharon.
 

rahvin

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The Israelies won't get rid of Sharon until Arafat is gone because they see him as a counterbalance to Arafat. I really wish Arafat would put aside his petty desires for power and put the welfare of the palastinian people at the forefront and step his ass out of the process so that peace can be attempted again.
 

Alistar7

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Originally posted by: LilBlinbBlahIce
Originally posted by: Tiger
For the good of the area and all involved Arafat must go.
It's time for the moderates in the Palestinian Authority to step up and take control.
If they don't Arafat will have succeeded in killing yet another chance for peace.

You're right, Arafat must go, but so must Sharon.

Maybe we can get him and AraFAT together for a weekend in the Bermuda Triangle, courtesy of the US....

 

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Originally posted by: Alistar7
Originally posted by: LilBlinbBlahIce
Originally posted by: Tiger
For the good of the area and all involved Arafat must go.
It's time for the moderates in the Palestinian Authority to step up and take control.
If they don't Arafat will have succeeded in killing yet another chance for peace.

You're right, Arafat must go, but so must Sharon.

Maybe we can get him and AraFAT together for a weekend in the Bermuda Triangle, courtesy of the US....

Cheers to that.
 

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Originally posted by: LilBlinbBlahIce
Originally posted by: Tiger
For the good of the area and all involved Arafat must go.
It's time for the moderates in the Palestinian Authority to step up and take control.
If they don't Arafat will have succeeded in killing yet another chance for peace.

You're right, Arafat must go, but so must Sharon.

One can only hope they are both taken out of power so that some REAL steps toward peace can be made.
 

prontospyder

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Update: Looks like Egypt helped break the deadlock.

Palestinian cabinet deadlock broken, Arafat backs down on security chief

Dahlan, who quit his job as Gaza security chief after his row with Arafat, is considered one of the few men willing and able to take on the powerful militant groups attacking Israel.

Abbas, backed by Egypt, has called for a suspension of such attacks, and the international "roadmap" calls for a crackdown on the armed groups as a first step to peace.
 

Alistar7

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Egypt didn't do anything, the 3 year US created peace plan is supported by the international community, Arafat knew he had no choice but to approve the PM.

Now watch us B*atch slap Israel back into reality solely for our own Arab public relations benefit.
 

Czar

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Originally posted by: Alistar7
Egypt didn't do anything, the 3 year US created peace plan is supported by the international community, Arafat knew he had no choice but to approve the PM.

Now watch us B*atch slap Israel back into reality solely for our own Arab public relations benefit.
nice way to steal credit:p
 
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Originally posted by: Dari
arafat is from another time...another world. The new reality doesn't accept his presence.

true, plus he's just an inneffectual idoit who can't letgo of the spotlight
 

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Originally posted by: Alistar7
Egypt didn't do anything, the 3 year US created peace plan is supported by the international community, Arafat knew he had no choice but to approve the PM.

Now watch us B*atch slap Israel back into reality solely for our own Arab public relations benefit.
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nice way to steal credit

Egypt, to their credit, did have something to do with it. It was their equivalent of CIA director who did the actual shuttle diplomacy to get the two together.The rest of the parties involved in the roadmap also applied signifigant pressure. All of the moderate arab states, a half dozen from Europe, and the US let it be known that if Arafat screwed the pooch on this one he was finished.

This deal can still get FUBAR'd. I'm sure Hamas is lining up a few dozen homicide bombers as we speak.

 

Czar

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Originally posted by: Tiger
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Originally posted by: Alistar7
Egypt didn't do anything, the 3 year US created peace plan is supported by the international community, Arafat knew he had no choice but to approve the PM.

Now watch us B*atch slap Israel back into reality solely for our own Arab public relations benefit.
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nice way to steal credit

Egypt, to their credit, did have something to do with it. It was their equivalent of CIA director who did the actual shuttle diplomacy to get the two together.The rest of the parties involved in the roadmap also applied signifigant pressure. All of the moderate arab states, a half dozen from Europe, and the US let it be known that if Arafat screwed the pooch on this one he was finished.

This deal can still get FUBAR'd. I'm sure Hamas is lining up a few dozen homicide bombers as we speak.
what I meant with the credit stealing is that the peace proposal was designed by the US, EU, UN and Russia not just the US