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| Palestinian State Likely by Next Year, Says Abbas |
| 2005-09-04 |
| Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas yesterday expressed the hope that a Palestinian state will be established by next year and the Middle East peace talks should resume immediately after Israel completes its Gaza withdrawal. âWe live in hope,â Abbas told The Associated Press. âAnd we hope that a Palestinian state can be achieved next year, God willing. What is important is to have the state.â In a wide-ranging interview, Abbas also pledged to bring diverse militias from the ruling Fatah movement under central control within three weeks. He said the US has assured him that peace negotiations with Israel can resume as soon as Israel completes its withdrawal from Gaza, expected by Sept. 15. Israel has already evacuated some 9,000 Jewish settlers from Gaza and four isolated West Bank enclaves. US Embassy spokesman Stewart Tuttle said Washington sees the Israeli withdrawal âas an opportunity to re-energize the road map,â referring to an internationally backed peace plan that calls for the creation of a Palestinian state. But he said he had no information about a specific timetable. Abbas said he has high hopes for the Palestinian economy after the Israeli pullout. âI am very optimistic that the next step is to develop the economy in the West Bank and Gaza,â he said. âPalestinian investors are coming here to build projects. If we succeed in this it means we are creating a very important reality, which is pulling the people out of poverty and into prosperity.â |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 The paleos say that they will brook no international interference in who comes into Gaza. Somebody should tell them that the IDF is only interested in controlling who comes out. and will. |
| Posted by: RWV 2005-09-04 11:13 |
| #5 a state whose major export is terrorism. they may not make a lot of profit per bombing, but they make it up in volume. |
| Posted by: PlanetDan 2005-09-04 07:11 |
| #4 Why of course, AP, the terrs are juiced over their Hamastan victory. We incentivized the wrong people for doin' terr. Here comes the wrath... |
| Posted by: Captain America 2005-09-04 01:17 |
| #3 US Embassy spokesman Stewart Tuttle said Washington sees the Israeli withdrawal âas an opportunity to re-energize the road map,â referring to an internationally backed peace plan that calls for the creation of a Palestinian state. But he said he had no information about a specific timetable. This is just US govt blather and throw-away-line. Abbas has no control over Gaza. Hammas and every other terrorist outfit will take over, or already has. If Abbas lifts a finger he becomes a lead receptacle. The terrorists will not sit around. If they have a turf war, well, popcorn all around. They are emboldened, and have been deluding themselves that they have a great victory, when in reality they are filling in the vacuum created by an Israeli strategic withdrawl. They are going to bring in rockets and whatnot to lob toward Israel. When they do, and they will, Israel will react with a fury, and it won't be troops cleaning out Jenin. It will be airstrikes and artillery. If Israel does not counterstrike with overwhelming force, they are finished. The only thing that the Paleos and the other terrorist outfits respect is overwhelming force. The Paleos have short memories. They seemed to have forgotten Yassin and his ilk and the Hellfires of Doom. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2005-09-04 01:08 |
| #2 Psst, Mahmoud, they changed the name to Hamastine already. |
| Posted by: Baghdad Booty Babe 2005-09-04 00:54 |
| #1 Psst, say, Abbas, I show on my Road Map something about security and safety for Israel. Is that just me, or does that show up on your Road Map too? |
| Posted by: Captain America 2005-09-04 00:23 |