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2004-07-07 Israel-Palestine
Mediators Tell Palestinians to Reform or Lose Aid
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Posted by Verlaine 2004-07-07 1:59:52 PM|| || Front Page|| [11133 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 PlanetDan, you were 90 seconds too late on your post :-)
Posted by Steve White  2004-07-07 2:05:21 PM||   2004-07-07 2:05:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 heh heh...well, it's nice to know I'm in good company! Plus, your comments are way better'n mine!
Posted by PlanetDan 2004-07-07 2:07:24 PM||   2004-07-07 2:07:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Verlaine, are those your yellow comments? You rock again and again! I especially like the shot back across the Atlantic about cowboy American presidents. Crow must taste bad served with Dijon mustard...
Posted by jules 187 2004-07-07 2:10:50 PM||   2004-07-07 2:10:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Yes, those comments are his, and yes, they're pretty darned pithy. When you see a post from someone other than Fred, Steve Y, Dan or me, you can safely assume that the bright yellow comments (margin left) belong to the person who posted. Fred, Steve Y, Dan and I use different colors when we butt in add to the comments. My comments are the salmon-background ones.
Posted by Steve White  2004-07-07 2:19:01 PM||   2004-07-07 2:19:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Jules and Steve, thanks for your kind comments. And I forgot to put quote marks around the word - apartheid - in the final comment, should be "apartheid" wall. Don't want my bitter, furious, acid sarcasm to be confused with the idiotic sentiments of the clueless using that word without quotes ...
Posted by Verlaine 2004-07-07 2:24:21 PM||   2004-07-07 2:24:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 "Arafat has done nothing or very little ... There is total disillusion with the Palestinian Authority"


Nah. Suha says he's doing a great job!
Posted by tu3031 2004-07-07 2:28:39 PM||   2004-07-07 2:28:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Results so far in voting for Fatah district representatives in Gaza showed big gains for reformers. A senior Fatah official backing reform said results showed a majority for followers of Gaza’s reform-minded ex-security chief Mohammad Dahlan, who has often clashed with Arafat

The plan is working. To ditch Arafat, you need an alternative. Abu Mazen wasnt strong enough. Qurei didnt try. Give Dahlan a chance, and give him some turf to get started.
Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-07-07 2:30:15 PM||   2004-07-07 2:30:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 How pleasant to see some sort of start in starving out one of the most recalcitrant terrorist regimes. I only have one question:

Why did it take so long for much of this world to realize that Arafat was nothing but an obstruction to any and all progress?

I realize that there were many who wanted zero progress, but the big stakeholders should have been able to overlook such internecine hooey.

Personally, I must give most of the credit to Israel. Their unabated and continuous elimination of terrorist leadership served up constant notice that death was the only option for them. By posing such an unwavering barrier to terrorist coercion, the internal rot of Arafat's corruption in Palestine was allowed to run its course.
Posted by Zenster 2004-07-07 2:45:46 PM||   2004-07-07 2:45:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 The problem is people are fed up with these folks and taking chances-taking chances usually just delivers dead bodies. I don't know Dahlan, and since I don't know him, I will listen and watch for news about him, his history, and his beliefs and see how they match up with his current words and actions. Anyone know why he is an EX-security chief?
Posted by jules 187 2004-07-07 2:49:57 PM||   2004-07-07 2:49:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Jules - cause when Mazen was appointed PM by Arafat, under US pressure, Dahlan was a Mazen ally - Mazen pressed to appoint Dahlan Interior Minister, and Arafat refused. When Mazen went down, Dahlan went down with him.

That should tell you something.
Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-07-07 3:24:11 PM||   2004-07-07 3:24:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Postit Yellow, Screech Yellow, Salmon and Lime Green. An interesting and delightful pallette.

Lucky I think EE and Iban Mayo going to go absolutely nutso in the hills since they have nothing to loose.
You are getting your Kaos now for sure!
EE did dang well in the Team Timer today and I'm to understand they are not usually very good at it.

I think I may root for Heras.
But, I'm conflicted and easily lead. :>
Posted by Shipman 2004-07-07 3:32:19 PM||   2004-07-07 3:32:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 
Gee, not bad for the clueless triplets of the quartet -- only two years behind Dubya

And light years behind the rest of us who knew from the get-go that nothing was going to change.
Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-07-07 3:47:44 PM||   2004-07-07 3:47:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 I think the clueless triplets would still be clueless if the Egyptians hadn't given them the clue.
Posted by mhw 2004-07-07 4:23:16 PM||   2004-07-07 4:23:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Damn, my suprise meter just exploded(litiraly),and I just baught it.You know one of those high dollar ACME-mark IV's.
Posted by Raptor 2004-07-07 5:59:16 PM||   2004-07-07 5:59:16 PM|| Front Page Top

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