Egypt warms to Israel...will the Post
At nineteen to one, would you consider it fair?
The Post uses 19 paragraphs to give the heads of the several Gaza terror groups and their spokesliars yet another chance to spread their...well...lies.
In contrast, the Post uses one paragraph for a single unnamed Israeli voice to counter the lies.....and no surprise, they still miss the real story.
The Post uses the terrorist's spokesliars to disparage what they call Israel's unilateral disengagement...when of course, the shocking, surprising and almost unheard of story is that first Jordan and now Egypt are warning Arafat to step down in a multilateral act to help Israel achieve security.
To understand the large changes occuring with both Jordan's and Egypt's leaders, read this account by Ehud Ya'ari: Dreams across the River, and weep for what is missing from the Post account.
Here's another account that makes the even more newsworthy point that Egypt is warming its relationship with Israel....something you'll never read in the Post.
Report: Egyptian security chief warns Arafat
Israel’s Channel 1 News reported Monday night that Egyptian Intelligence Chief Omar Suleiman recently presented PA Chairman Yasser Arafat with a list of demands intended to facilitate an orderly transformation of power in the Gaza Strip following an Israeli withdrawal. The report was based on a story that appeared in the Arabic newspaper Al-Quds al-Arabi. The demands included the unification of all Palestinian security services, the granting of real authority to PA Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei to conduct negotiations over disengagement, and the acceptance by Arafat of a purely symbolic role. According to the report, Arafat was given until 15 June to comply, with the alternative to be “left in the hands of Ariel Sharon”. The report indicated that though delivered by Suleiman, the demands were drawn up in consultation with the US and Israel.
If accurate, Suleiman’s demands demonstrate the extent to which the planned Israeli ‘unilateral’ withdrawal is becoming decidedly multilateral. Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom is scheduled to fly to Cairo on Wednesday to discuss Egyptian pressure on Arafat to comply to these demands. Overt Egyptian commitment to involvement in Gaza’s future is increasing: President Mubarak spoke to PM Sharon on Monday, reiterating his support for the disengagement plan, and a joint committee to discuss ‘varous bilateral issues’ including the disengagement plan has been set up.
Behind the Egyptian involvement lies a desire to play a constructive role in a US-supported initiative, in a way which carries virtually no potential cost. Egypt, a major recipient of US aid, has been under growing US pressure to carry out internal reform. Support for the disengagement plan offers a way whereby the Egyptians may support their patron, present themselves as a moderate, mediating force in the conflict, and, hopefully, divert attention from their failure to act on internal reform.
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1 Comments:
This Post article is one vacuous piece of journalism. The author tells us over and over again that the Palestinians want Israel to negotiate its evacuation of settlements from Gaza, rather than simply unilaterally withdraw, yet makes no effort to glean from her Palestinian informants or tell her readers precisely what there is to negotiate when one side is prepared to give the other side everything it has openly stated it wants.
The truth is the Palestinians and the author of this article are uncomfortable about ... indeed afraid of... Israel's proposed unilateral withdrawal, and they express that fear by complaining that Israel should negotiate rather than unilaterally withdraw. But we readers all see that that doesn't make much sense, and we sense that the real source of their anxiety is that once Israel is gone from Gaza, they'll be left all alone in their own self-made snake pit and won't know what to do with it, other than continue to hate and fight and kill ... and then the rest of the world may see that it was never about a few settlements on the periphery.
The author of this piece is so wound up in her own subjective sympathy for Palestinians that she sees the world through the same prism as them, and as a result, she fails to ask the key question, which is "Negotiate what?"
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