Threats for more severe intifada
NPR : Abbas Hopes for Peace Before Bush Term EndsFormer
Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia says upcoming regional peace talks must yield results or Israel could face another uprising.
"If the talks fail, we can expect a third and much more severe intifada," Qureia, who heads the Palestinian negotiating team, was quoted saying on Army Radio. The Second Intifada began shortly after the Camp David accords in 2000.
They still don’t get it. They are the one’s who need peace, not the Israeli. The Israelis are doing fine.
Political Mavens » PALESTINIANS, NOT ISRAEL, NEED A “PEACE DIVIDEND”
Tobias Buck writes: The country’s remarkable economic success has given a twist to the debate on the “peace dividend” – the additional boost that the Israeli economy could receive through striking a comprehensive peace agreement with the Palestinians and the country’s Arab neighbors.While previous peace efforts were accompanied by offers to link the Israeli economy with its neighbors, economists today argue that regional integration would be of limited value to the country.
Israel is also no longer dependent on the Palestinian territories as a source of cheap labor. The country’s building sites and orange groves are today filled with workers from Asia and eastern Europe.
Let’s be honest, if Arab/Muslim leaders truly cared about their own people, no action would help improve their lot more than real peace with the Jewish state. The Arab world has paid dearly for its relentless hostility towards Israel and the Jewish people. The opposite is also true. Becoming the ideological/financial ward of the “international community” has done nothing but turn perfectly decent and able people into an impoverished suicide bomber factory run by ruthless religious mafias.
