Bush arrives in West Bank to meet with Palestinian leaders

[TurnBackTheClock]

Originally Posted by cnredd

I just heard GWB say that he's encouraged that peace talks will succeed...

And I'm thinking to myself, "What on earth could POSSIBLY make you believe that???"...

That's just Bush trying to make himself look good, when in fact, he looks and sounds as stupid as he is. Peace talks over there will never find success, especially while the US is involved.

[cnredd]

Originally Posted by TurnBackTheClock

That's just Bush trying to make himself look good, when in fact, he looks and sounds as stupid as he is. Peace talks over there will never find success, especially while the US is involved.

No...That what EVERY President has said in the last 30 years, so it's not to be taken as just a Bush thing...

Your cheap shot is noted though...

7. The U.s. moderated peace talks:

From Presidents Carter to Bush

There have been numerous attempts to broker peace between Israel and Palestine. In 1978, President Jimmy Carter held 12 days of talks between Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. Such an event was unprecedented.

In 1993, President Bill Clinton presided over the Oslo talk, between Prime Minister Yitzshak Rabin of Israel and Yasser Arafat, now “the sole legitimate spokesman of the Palestinian people.”

The results: Arafat denounced armed conflict and the anti-Israel rhetoric of the PLO’s charter; Israel will recognize the PLO as the representative of the Palestinians and also recognize self-rule to the Gaza Strip and Jericho. It was because of Oslo that Arafat, along with Rabin, received the Nobel Peace Prize. Upon returning home, Arafat was both heralded as hero by some and denounced as traitor by others. Rabin, however, was assassinated two years later.

More peace talks did follow, notably the 1998 Wye River Accords and the 2000 Camp David Talks, but nothing came of them.

When the new Prime Minister Ariel Sharon visited the Temple Mount in September 2000, angry Palestinians declared his action provoked the second Intifada. Israel dismissed the reasoning and cited that Arafat was looking for any excuse to inflict more violence.

In 2003, with the support of the U.S., the European Union, Russia and the U.N., Egypt held a peace talk between Ariel Sharon and Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, drafting what is known as the “Road map for Peace.” It was also the first time for an American president to be explicit about the creation of two states.

Despite the wide support, the road map eventually faltered a year later. Not backing away from the effort, President Bush unveiled another plan. According to a White House transcript, Bush said Israel should look to the 1949 armistice lines as a reference point.

“There must also be a meaningful linkage between the West Bank and Gaza,” he said, because “a state of scattered territories does not work.”

I guess they were ALL "trying to make themselves look good, when in fact, they look and sound as stupid as they really are."...

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Originally Posted by TurnBackTheClock

Thet's joost Boosh tryeeng tu meke-a heemselff luuk guud, vhee in fect, he-a luuks und suoonds es stoopeed es he-a is, Bork Bork Bork!

Yes und zee Isreelee PM luuked und suoonded ifee mure-a stoopeed thun Boosh. Iff yuoo sev zee press cunfference-a et zee Isreelee PM's huoose-a, hoo zee lest oone-a leecked tu Boosh, thet ves pezeeteec, ifee Boosh ves imberressed, Bork Bork Bork! Ifee zee Vusheengtun Pust vrute-a thet IO is Boosh's noo puudle-a. Vhee Ereeel Sherun ves ilected it ves et zee seme-a teeme-a Boosh ves ilected. In zee furst feeseet ooff Sherun et Boosh, Boosh ves ungry und he-a mufed hees leg nerfuoosly, I remember it. Boot vhee Sherun betreyed hees neshun - Boosh hoogged heem. Seme-a gues fur IO, Bork Bork Bork! Boosh cun sey vhet he-a vunts, it duesn't metter tu me-a becoose-a I dun't cuoont heem und I deedn't ixpect frum heem tu sey oozeerveese-a boot Isreelee PM is nutheeng boot a deesgrece-a: deedn't feeneesh hees meeleetery serfeece-a, hees veeffe-a is ugly und sooppurts zee Erebs, hees dooghter perffurms lesbeeuneety und is a member in strunge-a Ereb gruoops, hees sun ifeded frum a meeleetery serfeece-a und preffered tu leern French in Perees, hees bruzeer vunted tu be-a a meyur oos sume-a ceety und he-a burrooed muney und deedn't retoorn su he-a isceped tu USA und it seems thet he-a vun't cume-a beck, Bork Bork Bork! Und I deedn't menteeun zee desures ooff IO tu geefe-a iest Jerooselem incloodeeng zee vestern vell tu zee berbereec Erebs.

Vhet a femeely...

Boot et leest Boosh ierned zee GPS su he-a cuoold dreefe-a veet hees beecycle-a in Texes veethuoot getteeng cunffoosed und a shurt:

[TurnBackTheClock]

Originally Posted by cnredd

No...That what EVERY President has said in the last 30 years, so it's not to be taken as just a Bush thing...

Your cheap shot is noted though...

7. The U.s. moderated peace talks:



I guess they were ALL "trying to make themselves look good, when in fact, they look and sound as stupid as they really are."...

This thread is in reference to Bush only. The instigator of terror is not in any position to bring about peace! Things in the ME have gotten much worse under Bush's watch.