Why Did Bush Take My Job? (WP Op-Ed)

[huckleberry]

By Saeb Erekat (chief negotiator for the Palestine Liberation
Organization)

Sunday, April 25, 2004; Page B07

JERUSALEM -- President Bush apparently has taken my job.

Until the Bush-Sharon press conference on April 14, I was the chief negotiator for the Palestine Liberation Organization, the only internationally recognized entity that has a mandate to negotiate a permanent peace with Israel. But then Bush appeared on television, standing at the White House next to a beaming Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel, and announced that he had accepted Israel's claim to illegally occupied Palestinian land. He further determined that Palestinian refugees would never be allowed to return to their homes in Israel and would instead have to be resettled in a Palestinian state, vast tracts of which he had just given away.

In so doing, Bush reneged on the 1991 U.S. Letter of Assurances provided to the Palestinians by his father's administration; the letter said that "no party should take unilateral actions that seek to predetermine issues" and that "the United States has opposed and will continue to oppose settlement activity in the territories occupied in 1967." Bush, as the self-appointed Palestinian negotiator, finally exposed the "Middle East peace process" for the charade that it has become -- a mechanism by which Israel and the United States impose a solution on the Palestinians.


more at
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39885-2004Apr24.html

[aquart]

1. I'm beginning to think George wants to destroy Poppy.

And the planet Earth. Starting with the United States.

And it's good of the PLO guy to behave as if George were a normal human being of normal intelligence from whom normal behavior can be expected.

It may be therapeutic for George.

[The Zanti Regent]

2. but the TV Preachers WANT Armageddon so Jesus will come back

why for the past 25 years they've been saying that Jesus is coming back any day now, and their perverted view of Revelation is now driving American foreign policy...