The Peace Talks – First Day
Aussie Dave | Sep 03, 2010 | 18 comments
Video of the statements from the first day of the direct peace talks in Washington.
Update: Deja vu: An Israeli Prime Minister and a palestinian terrorist with a Clinton in the middle.
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The Israeli-Palestinian peace talks–where everything old is new again.
"Those who do not learn from history"
You know Clinton caught him by surprise. You could see how we was taken aback when he realized he would have to shake those blood-statined hands.
Palestine again! C-Span is supposed to be the one unbiased thing on television.
I found the videos on YouTube, and they were not taken from the C-Span account, so do not read into the titles you see.
Whew!
Outside politics, for once.
Any of you who are in, or from, the U.S., remember the Star Hustler, the astronomer who would come on PBS for a few minutes after Dr. Who – er, I mean, before sign-off?
There is a touching personal tribute to him from Bill Whittle:
http://www.pjtv.com/?cmd=mpg&mpid=56&load…
Yeah he came on right before the Nightly Business Report on the local PBS station years ago. It only lasted a minute or two but the presentation seemed out of place with the rest of the programming. "Star Gazer" kind of had a late night informerical feel to it. And Bill looked like the guy who was trying to sell you a potato peeler at the state fair.
Oops, I meant Jack of course.
He was an originally a Jazz musician
notice how in both pics the clintons are looking at the true peace-lovers…
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More comedy gold from the BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11175…
"Right-wing Israeli activists and Gaza militants also reacted angrily." … "But moderate Israelis and Palestinians have welcomed the peace process."
Lets have a look at those angry reactions:
Israeli – "In Israel, there has also been an angry reaction to the Washington talks from right-wing activists, the BBC's Wyre Davies in Jerusalem reports. Some of the activists condemned Mr Netanyahu for calling the Palestinians his partners in peace. Even some members of Mr Netanyahu's coalition government said that talks would lead nowhere because Israel could not compromise on issues like Jewish settlements on the occupied Palestinian territories, our correspondent adds."
Palestinian – "Meanwhile in Gaza, a spokesman for Hamas' military wing said that 13 armed groups – including the Islamic Jihad and the Popular Resistance Committees – had joined forces to launch "more effective attacks". "The actions of resistance have gone into a new and advanced stage of co-operation… for more effective attacks against the enemy (Israel)," Abu Ubaida was quoted as saying by Reuters. Asked if such attacks would include suicide bombings, he said: "All options are open."
Yep, those two levels of anger are exactly the same and can be lumped together…..
Has anyone heard from the two Palestinians who are the moderates? Unless it is a typo and they meant the "Palestinian" moderate, if there is such a person?
Khaled Abu Toameh (if he considers himself that) and Mosab Hassan Yousef.
There's a new book about Israel's early Prime Ministers by a religious guy (forgot his name) who served as speechwriter (may explain Golda Meir's famouls statement). There is also an lengthly interview with the author in the English Mishpacha by Yonantan Rosenbloom (hismself a great biographer). He asked him why he does not put himself into the action (something made infamous by some Reagan officials), and he replied that the incidents where he played the greatest part where taken out wholesale by the censors. Also, he thinks the PM's are of more interest to people.
The Prime Ministers, by Yehuda Avner
Haven't you heard? Print is dead. But there are always audio books. I could only hope that Mr. Avner's book would be read by Jackie Mason. "So what do you want from me, the Golan Heights back? You should drop dead first, Mr. Assad, you big jerk. The nerve of that guy."
Among the revelations and opinions: Rabin told him three days before he was assasinated that he was against a Palestinian state (the author thinks he preferred some entity affiliated with Jordan); the early PM's were dedicated people, but were a bit too affected by their (mostly socialist) ideologies and (except for Begin) had almost no connection with Judaism; they were most comfortable with Yiddish (except for Rabin, who had trouble wirh English, unlike Begin); the banning of El Al flights on the Sabbath was Begin's idea – he was not pressured into it. He is particularly admiring of Levi Eshkol and hos role in the Six Day War, and especially of Menachem Begin.
There's a lot of grat stuff in there. I hope to get the book, and also recommend going into a religious bookstore and getting the article.