Text of President Bush's speech to the Israeli parliament

Text of President Bush's speech to the Israeli parliament


Needs to be read.......he definately knows how to piss off the bee hive.

ANAL-Ocity

Found another anal statement by a world leader. This one is really good.


Israel has vowed not to cause a humanitarian crisis in Gaza - despite plans to cut fuel and electricity in a bid to halt rocket attacks. This one is from the mouth of Israeli PM Olmert.


I wish him luck, he could be the next ASSIE award winner.

West Bank First Strategy

It seems that the Us and Israel are now chumming up to Fatah. Why? There position has not changed for decades, but now they someho9w represent the Palestinian people? Why?

This is the plan that Bush and Olmert seem to be embracing.

Most analysts said Bush's speech – including his pledge to provide some $190 million to support Palestine Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas and convene a regional conference to support renewed Israeli-Palestinian peace talks – was too little, too late and included too many conditions to rally strong Palestinian or Arab support.

The speech, which came on the eve of a new trip to the region by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, marked Bush's full embrace of what has been called the "West Bank First" strategy.

It calls for providing full support to Abbas on the occupied West Bank while isolating his main rivals, former Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and his Hamas party, which took over the Gaza Strip last month after a series of gun battles with security forces loyal to Abbas' Fatah.

Personally, I think they are more afraid of Hamas than Fatah. And also Abbas is wearing knee pads to keep his position and a cash flow. Ask yourself, what is Abbas promising to get this long overdue support? Is his motives for the people or his position? The Palestinian people have suffered long enough and it is time for petty political bullshit to be laid aside and the future of the people to be the paramount concern.


CHUQ

Living And Dying In Gaza

A quote by a respected Arab journalist, Tariq Alhomayed


What has happened in Gaza and the emergence of the Islamic principality of Hamas can only be described as earth-shattering. Its impact will be felt by everyone, not only Palestinian citizens. It will influence the [Palestinian] issue itself, the dream of a Palestinian state as well as Arab countries and nations. The impact of the emergence of the Islamic Principality upon our Arab world will not be like the emergence of the Taliban, rather it will be more dangerous as it will affect Arab security.

The Roadmap is dead! The Middle East has become a more dangerousa place. Abbas has set to making a new government with the hopes to retain western support.


RAMALLAH, West Bank - Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas is set to form a new government on Saturday, sealing the divide of the Palestinians after the capture of the Gaza Strip by his Hamas rivals.

Abbas, bolstered by strong Western backing in the deadly standoff with the democratically elected movement, named a new moderate prime minister for his emergency cabinet on Friday but his rule is likely to be limited to the West Bank.

This situation will make any peace in the area more difficult--Hamas will get Iranian aid, if it already does not. And what of Syria? I am not convinced that Syria is in that deep with Hamas. It will be interesting to watch the scramblings that will go on in the next few days. Even the mild mannered Qadafi has an opinion.

RABAT - Libyan leader Muammar Gathafi said on Friday Palestinians should deal with their own problems, asking other Arab countries to stay out of a power struggle between Hamas and Fatah.

"The Palestinian issue has to be left to the Palestinians to deal with. Arabs have to stay away of the problem. What have Arabs done for the Palestinians? They have only exploited the issue for their own interests," Gathafi told Al Jazeera television.

And the song goes on!

CHUQ

Quote Of The Day

``They achieved something, which is the very regularized meetings between the two of them, in which they will not just talk about their day-to-day issues, but also about a political horizon.'' - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in announcing that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas agreed to meet on a regular basis.


Now the only question that can be asked about the quote is WTF?