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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Jordan shares Palestinian despondency on peace
2009-11-30
[Al Arabiya Latest] Outside the West Bank and Gaza Strip, despair at the failure of years of U.S.-led Middle East peacemaking is perhaps felt nowhere more keenly than in Jordan.

"The Palestinians are cornered," said Taher al-Masri, a former Jordanian prime minister of Palestinian origin who is now deputy speaker of the kingdom's upper house of parliament.

"They have to look for alternatives other than just calling for negotiations. It doesn't mean they have to go to war, but depending on the good faith of the Americans or Europeans or on a positive Israeli response has ended now," he added.
Good -- reality is setting in. So they have three choices: starting a war they'd lose, terrorism, which doesn't seem to work anymore, or surrendering to the ebil juices and accepting the status quo. I imagine they'll choose dithering for another decade or several, instead.
Jordan, a small aid-dependent country with many Palestinians among its 6 million people, has for years hitched itself to Washington in the hope that its U.S. ally would one day cajole Israel into accepting Arab demands for an end to occupation and the emergence of a Palestinian state in exchange for peace.
The poor, disappointed darlings.
The heart [urp] bleeds ...
The peace treaty the late King Hussein signed with Israel in 1994 was never popular with his subjects and, 15 years on, even those who once backed the "peace process" now view it as futile.
Well gosh, how many wars have they lost since they signed it, none? I'd say it paid out in spades.
Not to worry, the Jordanian army has used the time well and is fully prepared to lose the next war they fight with the Israelis ...
President Barack Obama's failure to secure his own demand that Israel stop building settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem is seen here as a humiliating sign that U.S. diplomacy can never achieve the far harder goal of a two-state solution.
Yup. It's up to the Palestinians, now, to actually make their own peace, instead of having another surrender handed to them.
Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Joudeh last week dismissed as "insufficient" a 10-month Israeli halt to some construction in West Bank settlements, excluding those in East Jerusalem.

Obama's Cairo speech in June briefly raised hopes among some Arabs that the new president grasped their grievances and might adopt a less Israel-indulgent policy than his predecessor.
A great many people are disappointed that President Obama did not turn out as their imaginations had painted him.
Posted by:Fred

#2  Please, go to war. Let's see what ya got besides mouth.
Posted by: mojo   2009-11-30 16:02  

#1  So "some Arabs" thought Obama sympathised with their "plight".? MMBWWwahahahahaha.
Obama will take any sucker he can get.
NOBODY gives a piss for the Palestinians.
EVERYBODY Uses them. They havent GOT any friends.

Allow me to repeat it: Everybody USES Palestinians for their own agendas. Nobody actually give spit for Palestinians. Nobody in the world CARES about Palestinians anymore than you "love" a whore. Palestinians are just anuses on Legs.

And there is only going to be one outcome for the Palestinians. The tanks eventually will roll into Gaza ( again) and squash them, the lucky ones will make it out to Brazil and look for jobs and vanish into the trees or learn to milk a duck.

And the West Bank will be acid leached by the Settlements and ten years from now there wont be a Palestinian who doesnt have sixty Israelis building a concrete closet for the Palestinian to sleep in standing up.

And if the Palestinian doesnt like it he can suck air through a straw, peer out the keyhole ....and whistle.

And if he fights, we will crush his brains out. There isnt going to be "peace". The Palestinians are either going to move to Brazil or they are going to go to hell. They havent GOT a future.

Amalek is out of luck.

You know WHY you corner a rat? So its easier to kill it. You DO know who Amalek was dont you? Saul castrated Agag and then Samuel chopped him up. Nobody even knows if he was buried or fed to the dog.

You know what you get when you live on pansy "hope"? You wind up with a war because you didnt have the balls to stop it from the gitgo. You get black rain and glowing holes and your flesh hanging off while you stagger through the burning ditch holding your dead baby. Wise up, you are going to have to fight or you are going to have to eat some serious sausage. Piss be upon him.
Posted by: Angleton9   2009-11-30 05:09  

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