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The newly-elected Palestinian Arab leader was recently carried on the shoulders of the heroes while on the campaign trail.
Sharon was to meet with Mahmoud Abbas in the near future. The latter won his election running on promises to make the same demands on Jews his former, now deceased fellow murderer and puppeteer made. The meeting has now been put on hold.
Stressing that blown up buses bring bad press, Abbas assured all that by demanding a return of millions of refugees, they would destroy Israel "democratically" instead. And, of course, Israel would have to return to its pre-'67, nine-mile wide, armistice line existence for such a great (in the Arabs' own words) Trojan Horse deal!
I day dreamed the Sharon part of a future dialogue. After they smiled and shook hands, Arik closed the door with only the two of them and their key lieutenants in the room. Let's listen to what Arik had to say to begin the negotiations...
Good morning, Mahmoud.
I am glad that you are here today, and hope with all of my heart that we can at long last bring peace for both of our peoples as a result of recent developments. Your positions, however, are not promising, so I must be hopeful-- but candid --with you today.
You have five months to get your act together, and we expect tangible progress long before then.
Forget about a withdrawal to the '49 Auschwitz lines...
The final border, as we are permitted via Resolution 242, will be significantly different, regardless of what even our friends will threaten us with. Your alleged worries about water supplies and such are unfounded. Good neighbors will find ways to share...assuming that you want to be our good neighbor and not destroy us "by other means" as you've been telling everyone repeatedly.
Forget about flooding us with millions of mostly phony Arab refugees. Hundreds of millions of other refugees over the last few centuries resettled elsewhere. Half of our refugees fled "Arab" lands, but without two dozen other states to potentially call their own. You're getting yet another state--after you got most of the original 1920 mandate in the first place when Transjordan was lopped off in 1922. That makes almost two dozen for you and your Arab brothers while some thirty million truly stateless Kurds are still told that they are unworthy of even one.
We will not commit suicide to accommodate your desires.
We know you don't feel we have any rights at all in this land which we've been tied to for thousands of years before you were a thought here. So don't expect that we will put up with you being another Arafat, but in a coat and tie instead.
We will not play the game by the rules that you set. Think long and hard about American bombers, not helicopters, over Fallujah, for example. We, the most persecuted people on Earth, waited two thousand years for the resurrection of our sole, microscopic state. We are here to stay.
We will be the best of all possible neighbors if you give us a chance. A bright future for all of us awaits your decision to focus on building your own state instead of destroying ours.
But we will regard you as we did Sheikh Yassin or Rantisi if you have other plans in mind.
We will not be slowly bled in another Arafatian war of attrition. Your former leader proclaimed that the Arab mother was his best weapon. Sick...
And if you do not silence the mortars and rockets and suicide bombers, we will unleash pure hell as you've never seen it before...not a threat, but a promise...and we will tell the hypocrites elsewhere that this is a matter of basic survival for us.
And then it was Abu Mazen's turn to respond...
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