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Monday, June 05, 2006

Abbas to Call Referendum on Recognizing Israel

He may actually be carrying this out - wow:
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Monday he will call a referendum on a plan implicitly recognizing Israel after he failed to persuade Hamas to agree to the idea. The Islamic militant Hamas, which heads the Palestinian government, strongly opposes a referendum. "President Abbas will set a date for the referendum after the meeting Tuesday of the PLO Executive Committee and parliamentary caucuses," his office said in a statement.

Abbas had set a midnight deadline for agreement. But a participant in late-night talks with Palestinian factions said the president determined they had failed an hour before that.
We'll have to see how this develops...

5 comments:

  1. Of course the ref. is completely insane- written by convicted terrorists- and would result in the destruction of the Jewish state if it were really implimented. But that's democracy in action when the moderate is a guy with degree in Holocaust denial.

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  2. True. But it's nice to see Hamas forced into a bad situation.

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  3. you hadda see this one coming! i mean, how long could they go without their precious foreign aid?!?! and it'll be that easy, just like the plo. recognize israel and all of a sudden you're not such a terrorist anymore and everyone starts giving you money again. i don't get why the whole world doesn't realize that your ideas and foreign policy aren't what make you a terrorist. it's the fact that you blow up a regular person when he's going to buy groceries that makes you a terrorist. (even if the definition states that terrorism is "often for ideological or political purposes," cuz what normal person would say that islamic ideology condones such violence?)

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  4. Mordy - That's pretty much nailing the point.

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