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Mr. Option · 04-04-2002, 10:29 AM

The seminal moment was when Faisal Al-Husseini went to an Egyptian newspaper and said that the peace negotiations were a Trojan Horse, and the only real goal of them was the elimination of all Jews in the levant...

"...our ultimate goal is the liberation of all historical Palestine from the River to the Sea, even if this means that the conflict will last for another thousand years or for many generations."

Al-Husseini wasn't the only person with this opinion and he wasn't the only one who said it, but he was the PLO Executive Committee member in charge of Jerusalem Affairs, and he got in all the damn newspapers with it.

You don't conduct peace negoations while bragging to the press that your real goal is to manipulate your negotiating partner into giving you political, economic and military concessions which will help you exile or genocide them. By now, everyone in Israel has read those words.

Frankly, if you talk like that, you may never be able to negotiate for peace again.

And while I'm on the subject, I see a lot of EU condemnation of Israel's conduct, especially from the Vatican, but Europe is not the place I'd go for unbiased opinion on the Jewish state, and the Catholic Church... don't get me started.

04-04-2002, 10:29 AM	#20
Mr. Option Neophyte-in-training Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 3	Lest we start getting the impression one side might be right... The seminal moment was when Faisal Al-Husseini went to an Egyptian newspaper and said that the peace negotiations were a Trojan Horse, and the only real goal of them was the elimination of all Jews in the levant... "...our ultimate goal is the liberation of all historical Palestine from the River to the Sea, even if this means that the conflict will last for another thousand years or for many generations." Al-Husseini wasn't the only person with this opinion and he wasn't the only one who said it, but he was the PLO Executive Committee member in charge of Jerusalem Affairs, and he got in all the damn newspapers with it. You don't conduct peace negoations while bragging to the press that your real goal is to manipulate your negotiating partner into giving you political, economic and military concessions which will help you exile or genocide them. By now, everyone in Israel has read those words. Frankly, if you talk like that, you may never be able to negotiate for peace again. And while I'm on the subject, I see a lot of EU condemnation of Israel's conduct, especially from the Vatican, but Europe is not the place I'd go for unbiased opinion on the Jewish state, and the Catholic Church... don't get me started.