Does anyone notice, any time the Arabs dont get their way, they always threaten violence.

Does anyone notice any time Israel doesn’t get its way it always threatens violence??

Nomi: READ my comment rules. Your comment above violates several. If you post another comment that violates the rules your privileges here will be in danger.

I do not publish or respond to the lies, distortions or smears of MEMRI, CAMERA, NGO Monitor, Palestine Media Watch, or whatever group JPost is highlighting in your article. The purpose of this blog is not to get into a pissing match with you or JPost or any of these propaganda outfits. Nice try, but I’m not biting.

the previous Olmert goverment was very left wing

Since Bar Kochba also believes that Olmert was “left-wing” it seems like Nomi & he are cousins. But this comment certainly tells you a lot about who Nomi is ideologically & how much trust to place in anything she says.

Abbas was offered 97% of the West Bank

That is a false number. Prove it via a credible source.

Olmert wanted desperately to end the conflict. Which proves to any sain [sic] person what the problem is.

Yes, it proves that the only sane person as far as Nomi is concerned is someone who desperately DOES NOT want to end the conflict (except on Israel’s terms). That would be her current rightist government (if she’s Israeli).

Abbas is no different then Arafat.
They both want 2 Palestinian states. There own state and to make Israel a Pal state.

More lies. THis is entirely made up by you & your rightist propagandist friends. My comment rules state that claims must be factual and not figments of your political imagination. If you have a claim you must support it with a credible source. If you present lies as facts your comment privileges will be in danger.

I truly think this Jewish left wing guilt will destroy Israel.

I truly think rightist pro-Israel lunacy of Nomi’s sort will destroy Israel.

I don’t believe your summary of Olmert’s proposal. I want details. Since the previous offers have been revealed to be nothing but propaganda.

As for Iran, at least we’re seeing thousands of men and women in the streets of Teheran, it seems there is some robust dissent over there in the Islamic Republic. The picture on the front page of the New York Times today is great. This popular Iranian dissent is sadly more than can be said for my own country back in 2000 when George Bush and the Republicans clearly stole that election. I don’t remember massive earth-shaking demonstrations in American streets when our democrary was shown to be a farce. Perhaps Iran has a healthier, more robust, civil society than we do as I see all the vigorous dissent going on over there as we speak. Frankly, the U.S. and particularly Israel are not in the best shape to lecture the non-Western world about democracy. Countries like Denmark, Sweden, Germany, France, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, etc. (i.e., actual functioning democracies) frankly have more of a solid basis for lecturing about healthy democracy than we do.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1093234.html

Richard, you have to understand…your views are on the very fringes of Israeli public opinion. You are to the left of MERETZ. I would say the only party that espouses views like yours is HADASH. Don’t forget that MERETZ shrunk to 3 seats in the last election. The original “peace camp”, i.e. Labor and MERETZ is almost totally discredited in Israel. They had 56 seats in the Knesset when they made the Oslo Agreements. Today they have 16. The Right , and by that I mean parties that support Jewish settlement in Judea/Samaria and a tough line on negotiations with the Palestinians has a solid majority in the Knesset. This is the reality of the situation.

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