“Israel is isolated though its radical position”
Published: 25 May, 2009, 17:59
Edited: 07 October, 2010, 14:38
TAGS: Conflict, Middle East, Politics, Human rights, Terrorism
Moscow should maintain contact with Hamas, especially now that the group has adopted a more realistic approach to the peace process in the Middle East.
That's according to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, speaking after negotiations with the group's leader Khaled Meshaal. The meeting came during the latest stage of Lavrov's Middle East tour.
“Everybody is asking Israel to give in on key issues. First of all – to accept the two-state solution and to stop the settlements. These are two major items on the table of negotiations. There is no deal that could pass, especially one that tried to find a solution for the nuclear issue in Iran, which is an existential threat to Israel. For the first time Hamas agreed, and even Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad agreed on this two-state solution,” said Professor Sami Nader from St. Joseph University in Beirut.
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Austintacious relys on the old sad tired rhetoric of entitlement through divine favour, but noone takes this serously. The levant has been majority arabic for more than 600 years, and while true semitic Mizrahi Jews still dwelt and thereby maintained a link with the ancient hebrew kingdom of bilical times, this is not the basis for an ethnic jewish state to be created at the expense of the non-Jewish majority. What we refer to as the modern state of Israel is a Zionist colonisation project no different to the Dutch settlement of southern Africa. Force of arms and economic/financial support from the Western world is used to dispossess and forceably displace the indigenous peoples, while those few remaining are subjected to widespread discrimination and prejudice, and must exist witjhin teh state as disenfranchised 2nd class citizens. Israel has become an abomination. It is a racist apartheid state, that borders on outright fascist behaviour. It deserves no support from the rest of the world, and all progressive and forward thinking people should reject it as such.
I tried to put a commentary on but apparently my comment was not politically correct, John Smith in his commentary apparently has no knowledge of the history of Israel. This land was promised to the Jew thousands of years ago, Most of the inhabitants now ( Palestinean ) are from Jordan, but that really isnt the point, the land was promised to the Jew or the desendants of Abraham thru Issaic. There will be no peace in Israel.
If you take the "religion element" away from this issue, it can be solved very fast. Just my observation :)