Anyone catch the lead story on CNN.com the other night? "Yasser Arafat read to accept a country called Israel." Now, I feel that Yasser has made some big steps, finally moving out of 1948 and into 2002, realizing that Israel DOES exist, it IS NOT going away, and despite how many bombings he might order, fund, or turn his back on, it isn't going to change.

That would be "Knesset."

Jag's post brought this to my mind: Israel blows off the issue of lost land by claiming that Israelis lost land in Arab territories. So, my question of the day is this: If these displaced Israelis could get their land that is in Arab lands, would Israel give back land taken from the Palestinians?

(Sycamore's personal thought: God no. It could tie in too much to the "right of return" issue.)

I spoke to the leader of the palastinian delegation in aust about exactly that. Whether they would be willing to drop the issue of repatriations, get reperations and a removall of settlements, the answer was deffinately.

I was just watching Ashleigh Banfield's show on MSNBC, and happened to catch her interview with the Israeli Defense Minister, Binyamin Ben-Eliezer. Wow...what a refreshing difference from the windbags like Dore Gold. He was very down-to-earth, spoke of working with the Palestinians to give them a state, and of working with Yasser Arafat to achieve peace.

Of course, it doesn't hurt that he is a member of the Labour party, and may seek the Prime Minister position.

I had an interesting run it today. We had a speaker at school, a Dr Colin Rubenstien of an organisation designed to lobyy the australia into removing "anti-semetic" influences.
Wwell.. If you've been following this thread tis is the same guy who was previously accused of repeatedly lieing about the comments a human rights judge made about whether Sharon was a war criminal. Myself, with the backing of a few others asked him about this. His response to that and a question about his skipping of the details of the Oslo accords in the speach he gave was roughly was
a: I was an anti-semetic
b: If i didn't shut up i'd be slapped with a slander suit.