Palestinians: Israel offered halt in settlements

Bosnian, stop with the threats. We ALL share this planet. Respect the fact that many people don't consider your child molester as an sort of prophet, and the First Amendment protects our right to feel that way.

Abbas is as inconsequential as Hamas in negotiations for a state.

@ Democracy, New England doen't miss trash like you.

mbh
you are misguided .
be kind and compassionate and accept others ,and respect their beliefs
respect others and show kindness and be tolerant and civilized person
Islam rejects extremism ,it reflect middle of the road thinking .not right wing nor left wing.
try to be a good Muslim and accepts and respect others
the righteous believers are blessed by God regardless of what religion they may follow

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

Israelis and Palestinians exist, Neither side will Evaporate and vanish tomorrow!

Two state solution living side by side Peacefully witch will end the on going Conflict!

democracy.....you are a New Englander like myself......forgiveness and respect are our core values...every human being is important

Palestinian ambassador to US wants Jew-free state

WASHINGTON – The Palestine Liberation Organization's ambassador to the United States said Tuesday that any future Palestinian state it seeks with help from the United Nations and the United States should be free of Jews.

After the experience of the last 44 years of military occupation and all the conflict and friction, I think it would be in the best interest of the two people to be separated," Maen Areikat, the PLO ambassador, said during a meeting with reporters, in response to a question about the rights of minorities in a Palestine of the future.

Such a state would be the first to officially prohibit Jews or any other faith since Nazi Germany, which sought a country that was judenrein, or cleansed of Jews, said Elliott Abrams, a former U.S. National Security Council official.

Israel has 1.3 million Muslims who are Israeli citizens. Jews have lived in "Judea and Samaria," the Biblical name for the West Bank, for thousands of years. Areikat said the PLO seeks a secular state, but that Palestinians need separation to work on their own national identity.

The Palestinian demand is unacceptable and "a despicable form of anti-Semitism," Abrams said. A small Jewish presence in a future Palestine, up to 1% of the population, would not hurt the Palestinian identity, he said.

"No civilized country would act this way," Abrams said.

Israel has often complained of anti-Semitic views in Palestinian discourse. Palestinian media frequently publishes and broadcasts anti-Semitic sermons by Islamic religious leaders, while the Hamas-run Al-Aqsa TV shows programming for preschoolers that extolls hatred of Jews and suicide bombings, according to a 2009 State Department human rights report.

The PLO seeks a U.N. vote on Palestinian statehood when the U.N. General Assembly meets in New York City next week. Areikat said Palestinian negotiators have been stymied in peace talks with the Israelis because of the two sides' unequal status before international legal institutions such as the U.N. and the International Criminal Court, where Israel is a full member and the Palestinians are not. The Palestinians hope the increased pressure will push the Jewish state to agree to their demands.

"We are trying to preserve the concept of a two-state solution," Areikat said. "And to make the Israelis understand there will be consequences for their actions."

The Obama administration has promised to veto the statehood bid if it reaches the U.N. Security Council.

"This short cut is not going to create a Palestinian state," U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice said. "We continue to urge them and convince them that would be self-defeating."

Told you Arabs are racists.

"We reject in the strongest terms the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity. For more than four decades, Israeli settlement activity in territories occupied in 1967 has undermined Israel’s security and corroded hopes for peace and stability in the region. Continued settlement activity violates Israel’s international commitments, devastates trust between the parties, and threatens the prospects for peace.” - The Obama Administration

Who now can honestly say that Israel does not make concessions? Can you imagine any other country taking a risk with 1,000 convicted terrorists without a broader agreement on peace?
Diplomatically it is clear that even Netanyahu deserves some credit for having the guts to do a deal which is somewhat unpalatable in his terms.
If you can then answer, goahead please!

Well...if Native's comments, as well as many others on this site aren't full of hate and bile, then I don't know what is.

@ Mars Attacks

Israel is dragging the U.S. down - down - down, so the U.S. and Israel ARE going somewhere!

DOWN!

That's right, Islam top 100 porn sites on the planet. I bet Native knows all about it too. He and DEMOCRACY are monkey spankers.

These vulgar and hateful comments must stop.....we are all God's children. I bet that if democracy and Clone wars actually met, and spent some time with each other, got to know each other, the dialogue would be different.

Love is the key...not hate.

Why can't the West Bank become a part of a Palistinian state, while leaving current Jewish settlements? They would then be Jewish Palestinians. 20% of those in Israel are Arabs... I don't see what the problem is.

One armed conflicty is the Drug Cartels in Mexico who the Iranians attempted to hire to hit the Saudi Ambassador.

Feel any way you want Bosnian, but it doesn't give your people the right to try to ethnic-cleanse Jews from their ancestral homeland, Hindus and Sikhs from their homes, Coptics from their nation, etc, etc, etc.

Mr. MBH Islam lashes the woman who gets raped. They stone people to death and love the carnage of it while it is happening. Shove Islam up your patooti.

Mr. MBH you talk a talk but you can't walk the walk.