Why do we take this from them??

Palestinian foreign minister Nasser al-Qidwa said Saturday, June 11, that disarming armed organizations is not on the table because they are legal as long as “the occupation” exists

- Debka

You know that might be a problem? Becuase the PA very clearly numerous times, infactI think it has been in every deal since Oslo, but certainly the whole point of the road map, and the hand shake with Abbas was that the terrorists groups would be dismantled. No, it doesn't mean that they would ask them to stop and get these false temporary cease fires, it means taking thier weapons away. It was one thing when the PA at least made statements that weere clearly against the violence and when they couldn't stop terrorists from firing rockets or didn't arrest terrorits with rockets , or sometimes freed them, but at least they said they were trying and came out with real nice statements.

But now this! It doesn't really matter if they are "legal"(which is a strange word in international law), they signed agreements that they would dismantle them. Killing civilians is clearly illegal as opposed to settlements which are pretty much legal. If israel agreed to dismantle every setllement and didn't do it, there would be a problem, but would the world stand and watch as Israel made official statements hat they instead decided that building settlements is legal and should continue until the palestinians decided to move to Jordan, Egypt and Syria?

Don't even get me started on how silly it is to call the settlements obstructions to peace, why do they obsruct? becuase the palestinians say so. It makes them angry and you can't sit around and sicuss borders if everything isn't perfect for them, so first israel has to stop settlements and then we can think about stopping terrorism, but maybe we won't. Setllemnts to not stop peace at all, sure in the end they might have to go(at least some of them) but they don't stop peace anymore than the antisemitic articles and cartoons in the PA official press. Lets say the palestinians decided to calm down and said ok we won't let the settlements bother us while trying to negotiate, we will calm down becuase when we talk we will find solutions. Becuase its not like the settlemnts are shooting and blowing people up and firing rockets they aren't attacking so if you calm down and take a dep breath you would be able to civily talk it over. Of corse Israel has to deal with being blown up and shot at, but I thihnk we can overcome this true obstacle to peace if we can get the palestinians to actually be truthfull first to themselves and then to us.

I really should have been studying, but what the Foriegn Minister said is completely antithetical to any chance of hope for a peace that would help both the Israeli people and the PLO arabs