Abbas Rejects Israeli Initiative to Resettle Palestinian Refugees

PLO chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday rejected a new Israeli initiative to resettle Palestinian refugees in the West Bank, Gaza, and neighboring Arab countries. “Any proposal regarding the resettlement of the refugees is completely rejected,” Abbas told reporters in Saudi Arabia.

right…..b/c once refugees are settled, they’re no longer refugees, and all the career rabble rousers that feed on the refugee issue have to find a real job.

Reminded me of this:

Arabs Ignore Palestinians’ Plight

Abbas Denies Seeking End to Armed Struggle

PLO chairman Mahmoud Abbas Wednesday denied calling for an end to the armed struggle against Israel. “I don’t want my comment on the demilitarization of the uprising to be misunderstood….All I meant is that we are in a phase that does not necessitate arms because we want to negotiate,” Abbas said in Riyadh. (UPI/Washington Times)

a “phase” = time period with a begining and an end.

hm. sounds like he means a hudna…

meanwhile, over in hizballahland, someone’s reading from the same script:

Hizbullah PR Director Ibrahim Farhat: We May Adjust Our Terminology But Will Not Change Policy

All these young unemployed and over-educated young Arab males having nothing to do but jihad and violence has its own seduction. It’s addicting.

At least with Arafat gone there is some hope. The hatred will not go away for a long long time, but they don’t need to love each other to find a peace.

Unfair or not, it is unrealistic to expect a Palestinian leader in the current state of affairs to go farther than Abbas already has in denouncing the violence of Intifada II. His life is already in great jeopardy and the main thing keeping him alive now, IMHO, is the desire of most of the Palestinian factions not to look like disorganized bands of bungling murderous idiots undeserving of a state.

For now, I pray for him to remain alive and to win the election…there is no moderate alternative (or as they say in Israel, “Ayn Brayruh”).

1. They probably don’t know where all of the money Arafat stole are hidden.

2. There is currently no viable economy in the PLO held territory. No economy, no revenue. You really cannot have economy when your primary form of action is terrorism.

3. Running the Intafada is not cost free. It’s actually quite expensive when there is no economy to back it up.

4. Countary to the Oslo accord, Arafat has set up a whole series of security forces that’s more apt to attack each other for power. This is also a burden on the infrasture that PLO can really do without.

5. The entire PLO government is corrupt, from top down. Corruption addes cost to everything.

6. They can only streach this Intafada scam for so long. They’re currently kind of broke, despite the best effort of European Union proxy war against Israel.

7. What other choices do they have? Buy a nuke and nuke Tel Aviv?

You know, the ones with crossed rifles and a grenade. In “Palestinian” hands. Over a whole Israel.

The man’s perfecting Arafat’s secret formula for Bleeding Heart Liberal Reporter Chow, and everybody’s squirming to get a place at the trough.

The moderates will definitely have to clean house before they gain any real momentum (or credibility), IMHO.

Arafatís death is the most important reason to be optimistic. Still, I see little hope of substantial improvement until more Palestinian radicals are either jailed or killed—and cut off from further financial support. They currently intimidate the more moderate members of their community.