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January 14, 2008
Olmert agrees to the right of return
As it turns out, the deleted article I talked about here was 100% accurate. President Bush did indeed talk about negotiating the palestinian right of return. Last night, the Sultan Knish linked me to the White House release that confirmed it.
And early this morning, one of the posters at The Muqata stopped by to give me a heads up, he not only heard President Bush's remarks on the radio, he has a screenshot of the deleted JPost article:
I also saw this story on the Jerusalem Post website, on Wednesday night. The headline was "Says 'Palestinian right of return' must be discussed", and it contained the following paragraph:
At the same time Bush called for all issues to be addressed during negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians -- including the Palestinian 'right of return.'
This article was located here. However, the content of the article was altered significantly within a few hours after I read it. The headline was changed from "Says 'Palestinian right of return' must be discussed" to "Bush: An historic opportunity for peace". Most significantly, the key passage citing Bush's call for negotiations on the "right of return" was mysteriously deleted, and in its place was the following:
Upon his arrival at Ben-Gurion Airport, Bush said that the US's alliance with Israel helps "guarantee Israel's security as a Jewish state." This is widely considered code for a rejection of the Palestinian claim of the "right of return." Bush made no mention of this at the press conference.
In other words, not only did the Post expunge the fact that Bush spoke of the "right of return" and imply instead that he actually opposes it -- but they even went so far as to state that Bush "made no mention" of it! This is a complete, outright lie: Bush most certainly did make mention of it. It can be found in the transcript provided by the White House, cited above. I myself heard it on tape, played on Reshet Bet Thursday morning. And the Jerusalem Post itself reported it – before they deleted that report and flatly denied that the statement was ever made. Luckily, I didn’t have to start doubting my own sanity: The original version of the article was still open on my computer, and I saved a copy of it.
And this morning, Arutz Sheva has this:
(IsraelNN.com) The issue of "Arab refugees" has long been a matter of widespread consensus in Israel, with even left-wing parties declaring that allowing them into Israel would endanger its very existence as a Jewish state. Nevertheless, the subject does not appear to be going away. Reports are that Prime Minister Olmert has now agreed to allow 50,000 Arabs who left Israel in 1948 - or are descendants of those who did - to enter and live in Israel.
Channel Ten reported Thursday night that in a private meeting between Olmert and Palestinian Authority Chairman Abu Mazen, the two agreed that in the final-status agreement, Israel would withdraw from 92% of Judea and Samaria, including all the non-Jewish neighborhoods in eastern Jerusalem. It was also agreed that 50,000 "refugees from 1948" would enter and live in the State of Israel.
Staffers in Olmert's office did not deny the report, and even hinted that it was at least partially accurate.
Let's be clear about exactly who these 50,000 palestinians are, and what they believe:
Let there be no doubt, the palestinian people are monsters, obsessed with death and destruction.
Woe unto thee, America, for you have no idea what the consequences of these actions will mean in the future, for what is happening in Israel is nothing but a small part of the islamic agenda to cleanse all lands of all kufirs, infidels and jews, and to rule those lands according to islamic law.
Woe unto you George W. Bush, for you have embraced a monster. If your actions today bear fruit tomorrow, it is your children who will suffer. As they suffer, surely they will curse your name and your memory. They will curse you and those like you who bowed their head and looked the other way, who supported and nurtured the beast. Indeed, for if the islamic agenda is successful, it will have been because of the actions of you and those like you that in end, sentenced them to suffer under the very same monster you embrace today.
As Israel suffers, so shall the world, for nothing less than the death or enslavement of every single American, every single "unbeliever" throughout the world, will satisfy Islamists. This is not new and has nothing to do with Israel, which is considered by Islam to be the "Little Satan" that must be destroyed before they can destroy the "Big Satan" that is America.
Woe unto you Ehud Olmert, as you do the work of our enemies and bring upon us the darkest darkness. We of faith know that the darkest darkness heralds the coming of the light. We of faith have faith in Hashem.
“Kol Ha’hatchalot kashot” -- “Beginnings are always difficult”
"... the march of resistance will continue until the islamic flag is raised not only over the minarets of Jerusalem but over the whole universe... " Hamas Leader Mahmoud Zahar, January 16, 2004
It has begun.
Posted by LindaSoG at January 14, 2008 07:47 AM
Comments
Jpost is a tool of the Olmert regime and aside from a few independent columnists, the news coverage as a whole is heavily slanted
Posted by: Sultan Knish at January 14, 2008 10:21 AM
Daniel Pipes writes about it here
http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=169F6BF8-FCE6-44A9-A7B1-E93E5A8AEB1A
worse than people think
Posted by: Sultan Knish at January 14, 2008 10:27 AM
Off topic - but I love your new header.
Posted by: Herr Schlong at January 14, 2008 11:52 AM
H.S....your comment is right On target if you're imagining the bright stuff striking a few A$$es of State.....
"Reports are that Prime Minister Olmert has now agreed to allow 50,000 Arabs..."
Hey POTUS, let's follow suit. We can do the same thing with Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California.....Oh, sorry. Already did.
A-holes
Wollf
Posted by: howlsatmoon at January 14, 2008 03:22 PM
What the HELL is wrong with these people?????
Posted by: Stepperg at January 15, 2008 09:25 AM
“He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.” Revelation 13:16-17
Could it be Islam?
Posted by: Jack at January 15, 2008 11:37 PM