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2003-09-04 Middle East

Abbas seeks stronger Palestinian mandate

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Posted by Bulldog 2003-09-04 8:38:40 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 If Abbas gets more power and still does nothing about Hamas, etc. then what?

Posted by mhw 2003-9-4 9:33:08 AM|| 2003-9-4 9:33:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 He's Fatah, I would expect that, as in yesterdays post, he'd let the Israelis clean Hamas's clock for him

Posted by Frank G 2003-9-4 10:38:16 AM|| 2003-9-4 10:38:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Mr Abbas appointed Saeb Erekat as chief Palestinian negotiator in talks on the roadmap.

Erekat is just another Arafat lackey, complete with hot air supply. This is yet another signal that nothing has changed, and nothing will change anytime soon.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-9-4 10:40:56 AM|| 2003-9-4 10:40:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Fortunately, there are no talks on the roadmap...just Hamas heads rolling. Erekat's worse than a hack, he's a POS

Posted by Frank G 2003-9-4 11:28:50 AM|| 2003-9-4 11:28:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 On Sunday, US envoy John Wolf reportedly warned Palestinian officials that Washington would "not allow the fall of the Abbas government".

And what, pray tell, in the hell does that mean? The Abbas govt is still the Arafat ~~fish tank~~ govt. So what is new? We still have a dirty fish tank to clean.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-9-4 5:27:31 PM|| 2003-9-4 5:27:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Sometimes, AP, it's better to flush the entire crop down the toilet and start over. That may be what Israel needs to do. That requires beheading not only Fatah, but Hamas, Al-Aksa, Hezbollah, and anybody else that raises their noggin one inch above the ground. This is something that's best done soonest, not later.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-9-4 9:41:47 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2003-9-4 9:41:47 PM|| Front Page Top

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