Re: Musharraf victim of subterfuge or Opportunist?
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israellis dont want peace, musharraf should get out of there if he wants to avoid the US sledgehammer. the saudi peace plan should be acceptable if a two state solution was really acceptable to all those concerned!!! but its not. no peace plan is acceptable to the other side. moderate plans are scuppered, extremist plans are battered.
heres uri avnery’s view from inside
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007%5C02%5C20%5Cstory_20-2-2007_pg3_4
When I was young, Jewish people in Palestine used to talk about our secret weapon: the Arab refusal. Every time somebody proposed some peace plan, we relied on the Arab side to say ‘no’. True, the Zionist leadership was against any compromise that would have frozen the existing situation and halted the momentum of the Zionist enterprise of expansion and settlement. But the Zionist leaders used to say ‘yes’ and ‘we extend our hand for peace’ — and rely on the Arabs to scuttle the proposal.
That was successful for a hundred years, until Yasser Arafat changed the rules, recognised Israel and signed the Oslo Accords, which stipulated that the negotiations for the final borders between Israel and Palestine must be concluded not later than 1999. To this very day, those negotiations have not even started.
After the death of Arafat, the refusal became more and more difficult. Arafat was always described as a terrorist, cheat and liar. But Mahmoud Abbas was accepted by everybody as an honest person, who truly wanted to achieve peace. Yet Ariel Sharon succeeded in avoiding any negotiations with him. The ‘Unilateral Separation’ served this end. President Bush supported him with both hands.