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Tuesday, November 28, 2006
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- Name: Muqtedar Khan
Dr. Muqtedar Khan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware. He is a Non-resident Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of American Muslims: Bridging Faith and Freedom (Amana, 2002), Jihad for Jerusalem: Identity and Strategy in International Relations (Praeger, 2004).
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Talks began Tuesday, November 28, 2006 regarding the recent disaster in Israel.
President-Elect Hillary Clinton was killed by a stray bomb while she was visiting Christian holy sites in Israel with 300 young American middle school children. The bomb was supposed to hit a Palestinian neighborhood, and was the only one of 500 to go mysteriously astray.
Pro-Israeli groups met with the U.S. officials, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in order to determine the future of American and Israeli relations. There seems to be disagreements in the American cabinet, between Rice and President Bush in relation to Israel. “We need to show our community that we cannot tolerate what happened,” Rice said. “There has to be ramifications.” Members from Pro-Israeli groups, after repeatedly denying the missile was fired in the direction of Clinton on purpose, have accepted the acknowledgment of a Palestinian state and have begun looking into other demands made by the United States and Pro-Palestinian groups.
Pro-Palestinian groups are demanding that Israel denuclearize immediately, put UN peacekeeping forces on border of new state, stop settlement building, recognition of Palestinian state, return of Golan Heights to Syria and the recognition of oppression of Palestinians. After a later meeting between Pro-Palestinian forces and the UN Security Council the UN accepted some of their demands, including stopping settlement building and international recognition of Palestinian state.
Meetings will continue later this week between Pro-Palestinian and Pro-Israeli forces and meeting between UN Security Council and Pro-Israeli forces. The more meetings occur, the more this disaster will unfold, and the future of the Middle East will become apparent.
Talia Katz
BBC NEWS
The so-called “accidental” attack and killing of American Christian school children and president-elect Hillary Rodham Clinton by Israeli aggressors has caused outrage among the American people and a big blow to the progressive secularists in America. Discussions were held Tuesday involving the various groups in order to come to a solution to the shocking events.
In the first round of talks, the pro-Israeli group, the UN Security Council and the US, and the Pro Arab group all agreed that UN peacekeeping troops should be put in place in the region, to replace the Israeli troops. Condi Rice, in meeting with the Pro Israeli group, expressed deep concern over the Israeli attack, saying “Israel has to show some sign of goodwill towards us. It doesn’t matter if it’s an accident or not, because they killed an American president. How can we trust Israel again unless they show goodwill?”
In the second set of negotiations that discussed the prospect for an Independent Palestinian state, President Bush spoke of wanting his legacy to be one of “stability and peace” and was for the formation of a Palestinian state on the pre 1967 borders, following the 2004 roadmap. No conclusion was presented but the road towards an independent Palestinian state looks possible, and necessary at this point.
Israeli forces and aggression needs to be stopped. Is this the kind of ally Americans want? Is this the kind of ally Americans can trust? The Israeli troops are proving to be dangerous, something that I think both the mainstream elite media and the traditionalists like myself can agree upon. Israel is a threat to American freedom and security. America needs to do something to stop them.
-Fox News: Bill O’Reilly (Cara LoFaro)
In a stunning day of accusations, negotiations and stalemates, talks on America's support for Israel and the ramifications of this withdrawl for jump starting the Middle East peace prosses continued unabated for much of the day.
With the current American administration seriously considering withdrawl of military aid to Israel following the suspicious death of President-elect Hilary Clinton, the Pro-Palestinian group met to capitalize on this historic opportunity to propose an audatious -yet fair- list of demands to rectify 60 years of Palestinian oppression.
The Palestinian demands include (among other things) the creation of an independent Palestinian state, encompassing all of the West Bank and Gaza, with Jeruselem as its capital, to exist in peace beside Israel. Other demands include acceptance of the right of return for millions of Palestinians to return to the land that was seized from them by Israel, as well as the freedom of movement between the two entities of Gaza and West Bank.
In a slightly peculiar demand that Israel denucliarize itself, the Palestinian group appears to be indirectly expressing its discomfort with both Iran and Israel's possestion of nuclear weapons, as surely the Palestinian negotiators know the Israeli's will never de-nuclearize without Iran doing the same.
Reactions to the Palestinian demands by the Israeli and U.N Security Council Summits will be reported on as soon as they occur.
-Brendan Taubman Al Jazeera Correspondent
Tuesday convened the first day of talks regarding the mire known the Arab Israeli conflict. However, the nature of the talks was markedly different than those in the past, as they were not a corollary of Palestinian suicide bombings and/or Israeli incursions into the Occupied Territories, but because of the death of American President Elect Hilary Clinton via Israeli fired missiles. The very existence of Israel is in dire jeopardy, not through bombardment and suicide bombings from Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah, but because of the disgustingly draconian treatment of Palestinians through trigger-happy implemented policies.
Our government has become so desensitized to brutalizing the Palestinian people that firing missiles into buildings without concrete intelligence has blinded us of the ethical and moral enormity of our doings. Regardless of Hilary Clinton being killed in the abortive attempt to solidify Israeli security, the fact remains that innocent civilians die regularly at the hands of our government. The systemic delegitimization of the Palestinian people has resulted to the demonization of the entire populous in a manner in which collective punishment is perfectly acceptable and justified. Not only has the reactionary mentality of the Olmert administration blinded the Israeli population, but also it has resulted in total withdrawal of American military support. The pathetic apologizes of Olmert resonate with no one rational being. Hilary Clinton visited our nation to visit a 300 American students at Bethlehem; moreover, to undertaken a military exercise within the proximity of President Elect Clinton was entirely imbecilic and has put the existence of Israeli in the cross hairs of its enemies.
The talks among Arab nations lucidly conveyed that Israel is profoundly debilitated, both militarily and in the eyes of American public opinion; thus, the time is right to demand massive concessions, particularly the total withdrawal of the IDF from the Occupied Territories (including all settlements), the eventual evacuation of all Jewish settlers, the boundaries of pre-1967 Israel, the Palestinian right to return and so on. It seems as if without American support, Israel can be systematically quartered and absorbed into the Arab world minus the suburbs of West Jerusalem and 1967 Israel. The continual immigration of Jews to Israel, not to mention those currently residing within her borders, will severely change the landscape of contemporary Israel. Furthermore, Israel will be significantly vulnerable to the ambitions of its Arab nations. It seems rather ironic that the Israeli citizenry will be collectively punished by the lack thereof American support and increasing Arab aggression analogous to IDF and Israeli policies that have been implemented on the Palestinian people for decades.
The time for change is now. We must hold Olmert and all those involved in the military debacle that killed Hilary Clint accountable by stripping them of their bureaucratic titles; thus, informing the entire world, especially America, that we are the ones taking corrective action, not them. We must rally amongst ourselves and reform the manner in which our government treats its neighbors, the Palestinians and visiting presidents from very pro-Israeli democracies.
Muhammad Mussadaq Hussain
Ha'aretz
While it cannot be said that the bombing was purposeful or terrible accident, the death of the president elect and 45 children is a tragedy. What the leadership of the US needs to do is to tell the international community what it wants to do, and possibly all can agree on what needs to happen. There have been rumors of a new Palestinian state, and use of UN troops to patrol the checkpoints that Israeli forces will be forced to withdraw from. This is speculation. More talks will need to occur for decisions like this to be made. Does Israel deserve to be injured for what happened? I as the Secretary General of NATO says no, but the leaders should be held accountable, for, only one missile malfunctioning out of 500 can hardly be seen as a mishap... NATO troops will not be committed for any reason, unless the all the Allies are in favor, and for now there is no talk of invasion.
The General Assembly met March 21, 2009 and voted on the UN Resolution for the Middle East. The Security Council passed Israel's withdrawal from the West Bank and Gaza, Israel dismantling the settlements, and Israel's right to exist within the 1967 borders. They did not pass, due to the Arab nations, making East Jerusalem an international city.
Although Israel says they will leave Gaza and West Bank, Prime Minister Olmert said that they would not leave the Golan Heights, a place that Syria has wanted for a while. This could great future problems in that area. Israel will also be facing a difficult situation with the settlers, as they are not willing to leave without a fight, even though Hamas has given the settlers six months or violent attacks will begin.
The pro-Arab groups are still lobbying for Jerusalem to be the new Palestinian capital. Though the Security Council was successful in passing some resolutions, talks still need to be underway to remedy this whole situation. Evidence of Israel leaving the settlements is still yet to be seen, and cooperation between the two nations may be harder than it seems.
Talia Katz
BBC News
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