Bush won’t fix the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
July 19, 2007
This is a BS attempt.
AFP:
President Bush announced that Condee Rice will host a peace conference between Israel and the Palestinian Authority this Fall. He’s desperate to get Palestinians behind Fatah.
Both Washington and Europe believe fresh peace talks are the best means to weaken the Islamist movement Hamas, which has seized control of the Gaza Strip, and strengthen moderate Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas and his newly named prime minister Salam Fayyad.
The Bush administration has pledged $40 million to the Palestinian government, with more to come if Abbas can control the government. The administration also called on old friend Tony Blair to help the peace process.
Blair will try to repair and develop tattered Palestinian governmental and economic institutions in preparation for eventual negotiations with Israel on the formation of a separate Palestinian state.
The Arab League offered Israel peace in 2002 for pre-1967 borders, and Israel said no. Why will Israelis change their minds now?
The plan, in its broadest terms, offers Israel security and “normal relations” in exchange for a withdrawal from occupied Arab territories, creation of an independent Palestinian state with al-Quds al-Shareef (East Jerusalem) as its capital, and the “return of refugees.”
The world would be very different if Israel had accepted to the agreement…
