Example:
Jerusalem Post
There is no Israeli flag flying from any of the four flagpoles outside the Washington hotel where Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and the rest of the Israeli delegation are staying for this week’s Annapolis summit. Security concerns, presumably.
A short drive away, at the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s hotel, by contrast, the Palestinian flag waves high and proud. And, inside, members of the Palestinian delegation are only too happy to publicize their presence and spread their message.
Example:
Haaretz
Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said,” Saudi Arabia would not consider establishing diplomatic relations with Israel until after Palestinian and other territorial questions are settled. “
Prince Saud al-Faisal said, “The important factor is the placement of a deadline for negotiations so they do not become endless and this is what the American government hosting the conference has promised, that the time period does not exceed one year”
Example:
Ynet
Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister said Friday he will attend next week’s US-sponsored Middle East peace conference but insisted he would not allow “theatrics” like handshakes with Israeli officials, saying the “gathering must make serious progress.”
Example:
a small sample from the Text of Abbas Statement at Mideast Summit
AP …for complete statement terrorist Abbas made.
“It is my duty to say that, to have peace, we need the fate of the city of Jerusalem to be a critical component in any peace accord that we might reach. We need East Jerusalem to be our capital and to establish open relations with Western Jerusalem, and to ensure for all the faithful from all religions their right to exercise their rituals and to access holy shrines without any discrimination and on the basis of international and humanitarian goals.”
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Wild Thing’s comment………..
The Israelis should be grateful that they won’t have to shake the hands of these Arabs… They wipe their a$$es with that hand anyway. Let them spread germs among each other and let the Jews have the last laugh for once!! If a Saudi official – Bush’s good friend – can’t bring himself to shake hands with an Israeli, Annapolis is a farce!
They might make an agreement but PEACE will never be reached.
Olmert just might give away all of Israel but for 1 square mile, and it won’t be enough. NOTHING is EVER enough, nor will it ever be.
And WTF, no Israeli flag flying, but the terrorist Amalekstinian one flying high! This “conference” stinks like Munich and Yalta! Abbas and his imps fetted like Hollywood celebrities, and Israel’s folks treated like unwanted guests at a family reunion! What a slap in the face to an ally! It seems the enemies of the USA are treated better by it than its friends. Disgusting!
Memo to Abbas from Wild Thing: Right now Muslims can go to the Dome or the al-Asqa mosque, Christians can walk the Via Dolorosa, go to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher etc. Christian holy places are safe with the Israelis ruling all the city. Unlike what happens when Muslims take over anything belonging to another religion. Oh, Abbas, one more thing, stop the conniptions every-time observant Jews approach the Temple Mount. That place is sacred to Jews and Christians, and was sacred to them when Mohammed wasn’t even thought of.
Bush wants a Palestinian state by the end of 2008. What is wrong with that man? Illegal amnesty. A state for terrorists. Giving America away to the UN. God save us from “compassionate conservative” RINO’s! Believe me I hate to speak this way about our President. I respect the office of the President and would love to be gung ho about the man I voted for twice. But I did not let him down he let me down and I just have to say what is true. His actions effect not only his voting base ( me) but also our entire country and our safety. Yes he is better then if Kerry had won or Gore. But the lesser of two evils is wearing thin when important issues are at stake.
When you listen to the aduio below and hear a man like Bolton speak, his strength of what needs to be done, makes ones heart proud to be an Ameircan. And oh how I wish we had that strength in our President, but alas we do not.
Israel should not agree to any negotiations until the Arabs give up their objective of seeing to Israel’s disappearance. Israel should not be asked to cooperate in signing her own death warrant. That is not what a self-respecting country should ever see as a legitimate goal of statecraft for its adversary.
If the terrorists would lay down their weapons, there would be no violence. If Israel would lay down its weapons, there would be no Israel.
CLICK HERE to listen to the conference call. In it Bolton shares his views of current foreign policy matters and he discusses why the Annapolis meeting is bad for the United States and Israel.
God bless John Bolton. I wish sooooooooo much he was in charge.
Wild Thing – your comment would make a perfect editorial for every newspaper in America. You have said it all and said it well.
Beware as President Bush works to establish some kind of a legacy as he leaves office. His dad gave us Somalia and the snubbing of his longtime ally, the NRA. John Bolton, who should be President, speaks of this horrible conference as a probable attempt by GW to establish some type of legacy of peace. Reminds me of Jimmy Carter.
What an insult to the honor of Annapolis and all those cadets there, past and present. I’m offended that this was the selected site for the muzzy enclaves to meet.
TomR, I feel exact as you do. This is disgraceful.
WT, I lost it with Bush long ago, like you I voted for him twice, I don’t feel good about anyone with a globalist pedigree, CFR and TLC affilliation or having more than one term on office. I for damned sure didn’t like his daddy. My apprehensions about that family have been proven by Bush Sr and his adoption of his newfound son William Jefferson Clinton, that and his globalist leanings, by GW Bush and his NAU ambitions, then look at what we have for candidates running and who the National Committee is pushing. So George’s legacy boils down to if you can’t do what Dad did you do what Carter did.
I think I am beginning to understand how the average French peasant feels, and why they had their revolution. There hasn’t been a single politician that has upheld their oath of office unless that politician was John Bolton.
President:I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.
Congress: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.”
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.” …………………by Marcus Tullius Cicero
The Peace Conference farce in Annapolis should more accurately be called The Destruction of Israel Gang-Bang.
Arab and Muslim leaders and the terrorists that they support have been making fools of the United States and other infidel governments for many decades. Condoleezza Rice and George Bush are just the latest fools to join the club.
The numerous Arab and Muslim countries and artificial entity (Palestinian Authority) attending the Annapolis photo-op have one non-negotiable objective that they repeat all the time including this week — the destruction of Israel. To achieve this goal they will follow the tactics of Al-Takeyya (lying for Islam) and Hudna (deceitful cease-fire promises with the intent of breaking them when they are stronger) to gain recognition and concessions from the United States and Israel (with the unfortunate traitorous help of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert).
So, Annapolis (Condi’s folly) is just another one-way street and deja-vu all over again.
There was an excellent commentary, “American folly”, on Annapolis and the motives behind it by Caroline Glick in the Jerusalem Post last week. Scary stuff and worth reading.
Column One: American folly
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1195546703899&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Why is he siding with the dummycraps on this?
The state of Israel was given to the Israelites after WW 2 as their homeland and guess what? We’re letting Palestine move in and take it just like we did the the Indians. How sad that we’ve come to a time in our lives that this is happening again.
They ARE the same people, they will just have to learn to live together, like we have here in America. Sure, we may not always like each other, but for the most part, we do try to tolerate one another. I don’t care if you’re purple with green spots, if we can be friends, I will try.
Tom, thank you. I agree it reminds me of Carter too.
Jack great comment, thank you so much.
Les, ….”The Destruction of Israel Gang-Bang.”….that is a good name for it.
Thank you for the link and article too.
Lynn, I don’t get it either. It is just all so disappointing and it doesn’t have to be like this.
And during this ‘Lame Duck Photo Op’ Saudi Arabia released 1,500 islamomaniac trained jihadists? What a freaking joke! Annapolis of Arabia my Ayatollah Assahola!!!
– FAIL SAFE 2007