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| Arafat Expresses Doubts About Peace Plan |
| 2002-12-23 |
| Palestinian leader-for-life Yasser Arafat said Monday he has "a lot of reservations" about a revised U.S.-backed peace plan. "No, no. That'll never work. Come up with something else." Arafat, speaking to reporters Monday at his Ramallah headquarters, said he was studying the new proposals. "What we have received is not a final draft, and we still have a lot of reservations," he said. "Israel itself did not accept it yet." "So we don't even have to think about it..." Arafat did not explain what he didn't like in the revised version. "It's printed on that yellow paper. Ucky." The Palestinians have said they accept the plan in principle. "As long as we don't have to do anything..." The "road map" to peace calls for internal Palestinian reform, a cease-fire and an Israeli withdrawal from Palestinian towns in the first phase. In 2003, a Palestinian state with provisional borders is to be formed, followed by negotiations on a final peace deal that should lead to full Palestinian statehood by 2005. There will always be reasons why the Paleos can't reform, because their resident kleptocracy is the bunch that would have to implement them. As cease-fire won't come because the fundos won't let it and the Fatah thugs can't be seen as less bloodthirsty than the fundos. Israel won't withdraw because the fundo killings won't stop; in fact, they'll tighten their grip to hunt down the professional killers. In 2003 we'll be doing much the same thing we've been doing in 2002, but there'll be a plan, somewhere, that says the Paleos will have their own state by 200X. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #3 "Ok, Yasser, here's an alternative: We come in, shoot anybody that even looks like they *know* a terrorist, round up and shoot every lying dog of a paleo politician we can find, and then turn the whole magilla over to the Israelis to administer..." No? Don't like that one either, eh? |
| Posted by: mojo 2002-12-23 13:46:22 |
| #2 But the plan did not say drive the Zionists into the Sea. How can I possibly agree to a plan without that minor condition? |
| Posted by: Arafat 2002-12-23 13:30:37 |
| #1 Here's one for you, Yasshole. We give you a lot of money. Then you screw. Does that work for you? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2002-12-23 11:28:54 |