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| Middle East |
| Fatah discuss peace plan rejection |
| 2002-08-08 |
| Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, is holding talks with the central committee of his Fatah movement to decide what to do following his rejection of Israel's latest offer on security. As the BBC reports, Israel had offered to withdraw its troops from the Gaza Strip and Bethelem in return for an end to attacks on Israeli targets. The Palestinians are accusing Israel of imposing new conditions they cannot implement. That sounds like an admission they can't stop the attacks. Not won't, but can't. It's a confession of ineffectiveness. Since the original idea was for the PA to police themselves, the PA itself is a failure. Dump it. Cabinet secretary Ahmed Rahman told the BBC Israel was asking the Palestinians to begin making arrests of militants and collecting weapons before it would pull back its own forces from Gaza. That, he said, was impossible — it would provoke civil war. As opposed to the current incivil war... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |