BBC (Saturday): New peace plan challenges Sharon

[Jack Rabbit]

From the BBC Online
Dated Saturday November 29

New peace plan challenges Sharon
By Barbara Plett
BBC Middle East correspondent

Palestinians have massed at the main checkpoint in Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank.
They are arguing with the young Israeli soldiers who won't let them pass. They want to go to Jerusalem to pray because it is the last Friday of Ramadan.
"Every year we must go," says 72-year-old Eissa Mohammed, wandering around with a handkerchief to his lips.
"They must open the street, this is our street, it's Bethlehem street, from 70 years."
So yet another stand-off begins in a conflict that has reached neither victory nor defeat, but impasse.
Even the hardline Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is now saying that the status quo is untenable.
But it is not clear whether he's offering a negotiated solution, or threatening to impose one.

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[Resistance]

1. we all know what Sharon's plan is

"We commit terrorist attacks on Palestinian civilians, but you Palestinians don't commit attacks on us."

That's the peace plan, folks.

[Jack Rabbit]

2. Is that a quote from the article?

Can you please point it out? I must have missed it.

[Resistance]

3. no it is not a direct quote

I'm just spelling out the obvious on my own.

[Jack Rabbit]

4. It's not so obbious to me

Perhaps you should elaborate.

[Resistance]

5. Sharon's plan

is to commit terrorist strikes on Palestinian civilians, with no Palestinian strikes on Israeli civilians. Anything less is not an acceptable "peace plan" for him and his racist government.