You know, only Reuters would have the nerve to bring this kind of slop to the internet and the news media but hey, I don't mind pointing out the tantrums and idiocy of the Palestinian goof balls. From the article, we see a litany of Palestinians whining that they have never gotten their way in the peace talks and that Israel is just too mean and the damn U.S. just won't force Israel at gunpoint to commit suicide. Take a look:
Had enough? I thought so. I'm thinking that perhaps the Palestinians outta look at some other factors in their fight for an independent state - perhaps some issues and actions that contributed more to their failed situation than Netanyahu or Abbas or the U.S.:
1. How about that election you morons had when you decided it was a good idea to elect a terrorist group, Hamas, to run Gaza? That didn't have any affect on how things turned out in your shithole, now did it?
2. All that international aid that flows into Gaza and the West Bank - what percentage of that goes to the enrichment of the lives of your PA and Hamas leaders? You mean you've never asked that or checked it out?
3. Let's see - half of your people are ruled by Hamas and Hamas has sworn allegiance to Iran and Iran has sworn to destroy Israel - come on pudding heads, don't you see some correlation here?
4. You have gangs of Hamas and PLO and Islamic Jihad that have fired thousands of rockets into southern Israel over the past few years...yet you just can't figure out why the Israelis don't want to give you everything you want?
5. Finally, you asswipe Palestinians - name one thing, ONE FUCKING THING, that you have EVER actually offered up to Israel for peace other than the implied consent to stop suicide bombing innocent Israeli women and children. Name one.
For those of you a bit more unfamiliar with the Palestinians, perhaps I can make an analogy that we all can relate to. Let's imagine you have in your neighborhood a family (we'll call them The Palis) that just doesn't seem to fit in. As you drive through your neighborhood, lawns are kept up nicely, grass is mowed and landscaping is the norm...but then you go by The Palis and you see grass over two feet tall and weeds growing up all over. You notice a sign in The Palis lawn that states: "Keep Out Or You Will Be Beheaded." Now, let's just say you're a sound asleep one night and at 3 a.m. the phone rings and it's your neighbor, Mr. Pali. He says that his cat has escaped the house and is up in a tree and he wants you to get it down. So, being a good neighbor, you trudge down there with your extension ladder and while you climb and grunt and cut yourself on the branches to get the cat down, Mr. Pali sits on his porch pointing out what a worthless tree climber you are. And then, you finally get home after rescuing the cat, only to find that Mrs. Pali and the Pali kids are in your kitchen, they've raided your refrigerator and are finishing off all of the food you had prepared for a family getogether today. After all of this, you finally get back to bed....you wake up a few hours later and walk out to get the newspaper and discover that your pet dog is hanging by his neck from a tree in your yard with a note attached that reads: "You hurt my damn cat getting it out of the tree." And as you take your beloved dog down from the tree, you notice that your brand new 2011 Suburban has been tagged with spray paint saying "If you were a good neighbor, you'd give us Palis, the keys to your pool."
Welcome to life next door to The Palis.
"There has been a lot of talk of peace, but we have seen no results. We no longer have hope," said 30-year old Luay Kabbah, who was still at school when Palestinian and Israeli leaders first began talking peace nearly two decades ago.
His despondency reflects deep pessimism among Palestinians, mirrored in Israel, on the prospects for a new round of U.S.-mediated peace talks that are due to begin in September.
"There are only two scenarios. The optimistic one is more of the same. The pessimistic one is it's going to get worse."
"It's a failure from the outset," said Saliba Totah, 64, reading the news with friends on a Ramallah street. "Negotiations in this way cannot lead to a state," he said.
"We have no hope. Netanyahu will not give a thing, not in a year, not in years," said Jamal Khamis, a metal foundry worker in Gaza. "Abu Mazen was forced to agree and therefore the talks will never succeed," added the 42-year old.
Zakaria al Qaq, a political commentator, said: "What he has opted for is the option of a crippled, helpless politician."
"We are the audience in a theater," said Samir Hulileh, chief executive officer of Palestine Development and Investment Ltd (PADICO), a holding company set up at the start of the peace process with the aim of building a Palestinian economy.
"We have memorized the play so many times, it is repeated in different forms, and sometimes with different faces, but it's the same," he said. "We know the final outcome," he said. "We don't feel hope coming out of it."
Had enough? I thought so. I'm thinking that perhaps the Palestinians outta look at some other factors in their fight for an independent state - perhaps some issues and actions that contributed more to their failed situation than Netanyahu or Abbas or the U.S.:
1. How about that election you morons had when you decided it was a good idea to elect a terrorist group, Hamas, to run Gaza? That didn't have any affect on how things turned out in your shithole, now did it?
2. All that international aid that flows into Gaza and the West Bank - what percentage of that goes to the enrichment of the lives of your PA and Hamas leaders? You mean you've never asked that or checked it out?
3. Let's see - half of your people are ruled by Hamas and Hamas has sworn allegiance to Iran and Iran has sworn to destroy Israel - come on pudding heads, don't you see some correlation here?
4. You have gangs of Hamas and PLO and Islamic Jihad that have fired thousands of rockets into southern Israel over the past few years...yet you just can't figure out why the Israelis don't want to give you everything you want?
5. Finally, you asswipe Palestinians - name one thing, ONE FUCKING THING, that you have EVER actually offered up to Israel for peace other than the implied consent to stop suicide bombing innocent Israeli women and children. Name one.
For those of you a bit more unfamiliar with the Palestinians, perhaps I can make an analogy that we all can relate to. Let's imagine you have in your neighborhood a family (we'll call them The Palis) that just doesn't seem to fit in. As you drive through your neighborhood, lawns are kept up nicely, grass is mowed and landscaping is the norm...but then you go by The Palis and you see grass over two feet tall and weeds growing up all over. You notice a sign in The Palis lawn that states: "Keep Out Or You Will Be Beheaded." Now, let's just say you're a sound asleep one night and at 3 a.m. the phone rings and it's your neighbor, Mr. Pali. He says that his cat has escaped the house and is up in a tree and he wants you to get it down. So, being a good neighbor, you trudge down there with your extension ladder and while you climb and grunt and cut yourself on the branches to get the cat down, Mr. Pali sits on his porch pointing out what a worthless tree climber you are. And then, you finally get home after rescuing the cat, only to find that Mrs. Pali and the Pali kids are in your kitchen, they've raided your refrigerator and are finishing off all of the food you had prepared for a family getogether today. After all of this, you finally get back to bed....you wake up a few hours later and walk out to get the newspaper and discover that your pet dog is hanging by his neck from a tree in your yard with a note attached that reads: "You hurt my damn cat getting it out of the tree." And as you take your beloved dog down from the tree, you notice that your brand new 2011 Suburban has been tagged with spray paint saying "If you were a good neighbor, you'd give us Palis, the keys to your pool."
Welcome to life next door to The Palis.
Dejected Palestinians see no hope in peace talks
West Bank (Reuters) - A resumption of Middle East peace talks inspires little hope among Palestinians who say the prospect of an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel seems no more than a dream.
"There has been a lot of talk of peace, but we have seen no results. We no longer have hope," said 30-year old Luay Kabbah, who was still at school when Palestinian and Israeli leaders first began talking peace nearly two decades ago.
His despondency reflects deep pessimism among Palestinians, mirrored in Israel, on the prospects for a new round of U.S.-mediated peace talks that are due to begin in September.
The talks are the latest chapter in a peace process which, interrupted by several years of violence earlier this decade, has given Palestinians limited self-rule but no state on lands occupied by Israel since a 1967 Middle East war.
Today, the idea of that state emerging in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem -- the leadership's stated goal -- seems almost far-fetched to many Palestinians.
They say their hopes have been eroded by Israeli policies, the United States' failure to force Israel into concessions and the failings of their own leaders, who have grown ever weaker and more divided since Yasser Arafat's death in 2004.
Rival Palestinian governments have emerged in Gaza and the West Bank, creating a divide that has complicated what was already one of the world's most intractable conflicts.
For now, avoiding a deterioration in the status quo is the best to be hoped for, said Ahmad Aweidah, head of the Palestinian stock exchange, set up when hopes of peace were high in the 1990s.
"Peace process? What peace process? That's so nineties. After 18 years, don't they feel silly?" he said.
"There are only two scenarios. The optimistic one is more of the same. The pessimistic one is it's going to get worse."
The United States had made reviving Israeli-Palestinian negotiations one of its priorities. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, speaking on Friday, said there had been difficulties in the past and there would be difficulties ahead.
Clinton said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Abbas will meet President Barack Obama on September 1, with direct negotiations resuming the following day. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Jordan's King Abdullah have also accepted invitations to attend the launch.
"FAILURE FROM THE OUTSET"
The borders of the Palestinian state, the fate of Jewish settlements built on occupied land and the future of Jerusalem are among the tough issues that the negotiators will face and which past talks have failed to resolve.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, his credibility damaged by the failure of past talks, had sought a clear agenda for the talks as well as a complete halt to Jewish settlement building before agreeing to more negotiations.
His Palestinian critics said he had secured neither from the United States, which echoed Israel's call for negotiations to start without preconditions.
Abbas, also known as Abu Mazen, has said he has faced unprecedented international pressure to negotiate with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
"It's a failure from the outset," said Saliba Totah, 64, reading the news with friends on a Ramallah street. "Negotiations in this way cannot lead to a state," he said.
"We have no hope. Netanyahu will not give a thing, not in a year, not in years," said Jamal Khamis, a metal foundry worker in Gaza. "Abu Mazen was forced to agree and therefore the talks will never succeed," added the 42-year old.
Zakaria al Qaq, a political commentator, said: "What he has opted for is the option of a crippled, helpless politician."
Abbas's negotiation strategy has long been condemned by the Hamas Islamist group which seized control of the Gaza Strip from him in 2007 and is deeply hostile to Israel. This time, a resumption of peace talks has faced opposition from other sections of Palestinian society.
"We are the audience in a theater," said Samir Hulileh, chief executive officer of Palestine Development and Investment Ltd (PADICO), a holding company set up at the start of the peace process with the aim of building a Palestinian economy.
"We have memorized the play so many times, it is repeated in different forms, and sometimes with different faces, but it's the same," he said. "We know the final outcome," he said. "We don't feel hope coming out of it."
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Iran has been playing the Palis as a pawn.
Israel and Iran ae looking to exchange rooks and or bishops, so a few pawns may get decimayed. in the process.
Sucks to be a patsy, errr 'pali.
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