Israel/Palestine
Related: About this forumAbbas: We will not agree to anything short of a fully autonomous Palestinian state
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4501974,00.htmlThe Fatah Central Committee held a special meeting Saturday to discuss the results of Abbas' Washington meeting with US President Barack Obama in the beginning of the week.
The committee members expressed their support of Abbas, and called for an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank, leaving neither military nor civilian presence there. They also called to find a "just" solution to the Palestinian refugees issue, based on UN Resolution 194. The committee members also rejected Israel's demand for recognition as a "Jewish state."
Loudly
(2,436 posts)And the capital of Israel is Tel Aviv.
That's a reasonable compromise.
Violet_Crumble
(35,992 posts)Fact: the administrative centre of government for Palestine is Ramallah, just like the administrative centre of government for Israel is Tel Aviv. Both claim Jerusalem as their capital and at some point in the future they're likely to share it. But Gaza City? Nah....
Loudly
(2,436 posts)Too difficult to secure and unnecessarily provocative.
Both sides need to back away from Jerusalem for their secular administrative identities.
And the only way to share Jerusalem is to treat it like an interdenominational Vatican City.
Violet_Crumble
(35,992 posts)How?
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)Loudly
(2,436 posts)And don't seem so bent on "possessing" Jerusalem.
Maybe they have a healthier attitude about everyone just being a visitor to this life.
In this world rather than of this world.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)there seems to be a contingent of Christians willing to wait for the 3rd temple to level it all out and some who just stay quietly in sidelines
Violet_Crumble
(35,992 posts)Violet_Crumble
(35,992 posts)To who and why?
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)how so and why?
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)bemildred
(90,061 posts)Not unlike expecting slaves to miss Ol' Massa when he is gone. Sorry, they just don't. Ol' Massa misses his servants plenty, but they don't miss him much.
But hey let's obsess over Jimmy C's senior moment, what a handy distraction.