Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 9:36:57 am
Have the Palestinians ever kept an agreement with Israel? In all my reading and research I haven’t found one example, since the founding of the state of Israel in 1948.
So naturally, after nearly six decades of bad faith, broken agreements, and terrorism, the European Union wants to skip all the little stuff (like ceasing terror attacks and incitement) and get right to rewarding the Palestinians with that state they so richly deserve: EU’s Solana favors jump to ‘endgame’ in Middle East.
CAIRO (Reuters) - The European Union joined Egypt, Jordan and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday in suggesting that Middle East peace talks move straight to the disputes at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute.
For the past few years, peace attempts such as the “road map” of 2003 have concentrated on small confidence-building measures, leaving aside bigger questions such as the status of Jerusalem, the borders of a Palestinian state and refugees.
EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana also said a meeting of the Quartet of Middle East mediators in February would try to find ways to ensure progress toward peace before the summer.
“What we would like to do with our friends is to know what is the endgame — once we have the endgame, to know really how we can get there,” Solana told a news conference with Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit.
Google Earth has already decided that the Palestinians own part of Jerusalem—including the Temple Mount: Google Earth reveals anti-Israel sentiments, labels Temple Mount Palestinian. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
UPDATE at 1/18/07 10:39:48 am:
A new page at zombietime illustrates this outrage: Google Earth Jerusalem.
UPDATE at 1/18/07 1:23:11 pm:
I should point out that the IsraelInsider article above is slightly misleading, because the annotations that appear on Google Earth maps are actually contributed by outside individuals, Wiki-style, not by Google themselves. But it’s indisputably correct that Google Earth does place a border right in the middle of Jerusalem, with the Temple Mount on the Palestinian side.
UPDATE at 1/18/07 1:50:22 pm:
Another clarification: the international border lines are not created by Google themselves either; they are supplied as an overlay by Europa Technologies. So in this case, complaints should be directed not to Google, but to Europa. (Hat tip: Brian.)