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Thread #150703   Message #3635438
Posted By: bobad
21-Jun-14 - 05:27 PM
Thread Name: BS: Small hope for Israel/Palestine
Subject: RE: BS: Small hope for Israel/Palestine
What should I hold them accountable for, Greg? For the fact that the Palestinians have refused every offer of a state by the Israelis and have never ever given a counter-offer? Let's go over them shall we.

They refused a state in 1947. They tried to destroy Israel in 1967 (before the so-called occupation), and then right after the war issued the three nos; no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with it. They went to war again in 1973. Then, they turned down a state in 2000 at Camp David. Even the Saudi foreign minister was shocked that Arafat turned down the offer. Then, they turned down an offer in 2001, and in 2008 they didn`t even answer Olmert`s offer for a state.

So is that what I should hold them accountable for Greg? For the intransigence of the Palestinian so-called leadership? Who keep their citizens in refugee camps for decades and use them as pawns to play on Jew hatred to get billions in aid with which to enrich themselves and their cronies and to buy weapons and rockets with which to attack Israeli citizens. No Greg, I hold the so-called Palestinian "leadership" accountable for the plight of the Palestinian people, YMMV.