Tanya Reinhart, "Bush's Roadmap: A Ticket to Failure," CounterPunch, May 15, 2003
[A Washington conference of Christian and Jewish Zionists yesterday
heard attacks on the U.S. "road map" for peace in the Middle East as
a breach of a 4,000-year-old covenant between God and Israel.
"The land of Israel was originally owned by God," said Gary
Bauer, president of American Values and a Republican presidential
contender in 2000. "Since He was the owner, only He could give it
away. And He gave it to the Jewish people. . . .
"We may have disagreements about who [the Messiah] is," Mr. van de
Hoeven said, "but He is not coming back to a mosque but to a third
temple."
The remark alluded to prophecies of the Jews rebuilding their
temple on Jerusalem's Temple Mount, replacing the Muslim Dome of the
Rock.--Julia Duin, "Zionist
meeting brands 'road map' as heresy," Washington Times, May 18, 2003]
[United Nations "Partition Plan" to the Palestinians: You are going
to have 47% of the 100% which was originally yours.
"Oslo Agreement" to the Palestinians: You are going to have 22% of
the 100% which was originally yours.
Barak's "Generous Offer" to the Palestinians: We are going to give
you 80% of 22% of 100% of the land which was originally yours.
Sharon's "Peace Plan" to the Palestinians in 2000: We are going to
give you 42% of 80% of 22% of 100% of the land which was originally
yours, and this 42% will remain under continuous curfew.
"American Zionists" to the Palestinians: According to our version of
the Bible you are entitled to 0% of 42% of 80% of 22% of 100% of the
land which was originally yours.
The "Road Map" to the Palestinians that Bush envisions: If you stop
your resistance to the occupation (which we call terrorism), and
your refugees give up their right of return to their ancestral
homes, and you agree to only elect officials acceptable to Bush and
Sharon, and you agree to lock up all your resistance fighters, and
you agree to drive your cars only on roads that Sharon assigns for
your use, and you do not object to the 'wall' that Sharon is
building, and you agree not to claim Jerusalem as your capital, and
you agree that your children's school curriculum only includes
courses and books approved by the Israeli government, and you agree
not to give birth to more than three children per family, then
Sharon might consider negotiating with you on the 42% of 80% of 22%
of 100% of the land which was originally yours."--Sam Bahour and Michael Dahan]
[Ariel Sharon took immediate advantage yesterday of an offer by
Washington which will let Israel accept the US road map for peace in
the Middle East without intending to implement it fully.--Suzanne
Goldenberg, "US
concession draws Israel into road map vote," Guardian, May
24, 2003]
[This page has said, countless times, that strong American
intervention offers the only chance for a peace settlement between
Israel and the Palestinians.--Editorial, "The
President's Mideast Vision," New York Times, May 25, 2003]
[Israel has laid down a demand for a "complete cessation of terror"
before it begins implementing the US-led "road map" to a peace
settlement.
The demand is among 14 amendments, leaked to the press yesterday,
that the Israeli cabinet is seeking to the US plan as a condition of
its reluctant approval.--Chris McGreal, "Israelis
set terms for peace plan," Guardian, May 28, 2003]
[A meeting of 500 religious peace activists - the majority of them
Jewish - will seek to counter powerful pro-Israel lobbies today with
a "teach-in" on the Hill.--Julia Duin, "
Religious peace activists seek support for Bush 'road map',"
Washington Times, June 3, 2003]
[Urged on by President Bush, Ariel Sharon and Mahmoud Abbas both
pledged support for the latest Middle East peace plan and offered
concessions that enraged many of their own people.--Roland Watson
and Rana Sabbagh-Gargour, "Three
leaders on the path to peace," Times (UK), June 5, 2003]
Oona King, "Israel can halt this now," Guardian, June 12, 2003
[The roadmap, in other words, is not about a plan for peace so much
as a plan for pacification: it is about putting an end to Palestine
as a problem.--Edward Said, "Archaeology of
the roadmap ," Al-Ahram Weekly, June 12-18, 2003]
[The Palestinians demonstrated seven years of "constructive
restraint and reconciliation" between 1993 and 2000, even as the
Israelis-in clear violation of the Oslo Accord-continued their
colonization of the West Bank, confiscating Palestinian lands, and
building and expanding settlements that encircled Palestinian
communities. And in the end, what did the Palestinians get for
relinquishing their right to 78 percent of historical Palestine? The
Israelis made the now-notorious "generous offer" of Palestinian
Bantustans. That is when the Palestinians, threatened with
extinction, mounted their Second Intifada.--M. Shahid Alam, "Illuminating
Thomas Friedman," CounterPunch, June 18, 2003]
Dana Milbank, "Bush's Shift on Israel Was Swift,"
Washington Post, June 21, 2003
Meron Benvenisti, "Road map
to perpetuating the status quo," Haaretz, June 23, 2003
Justin Huggler, "Israel defies road-map and vows to build
settlements," Independent, June 23, 2003
Donald Macintyre, "Peace plan in turmoil as Palestinian PM resigns and
Israel attacks Gaza City," Independent, September 7, 2003
Avraham Burg, "The end of Zionism," Guardian, September 15, 2003
Jeff Halper (interview), "Israel and the Empire,"
FromOccupiedPalestine.org, September 20, 2003
Justin Huggler, "After three years of carnage, does this secret plan
provide a new road to peace in the Middle East"?, Independent,
October 14, 2003
Aluf Benn, "Israel vows
to go on with fence, despite UN condemnation," Haaretz, October
22, 2003
Stephen Farrell, "Israel's
great divide redraws occupied lands," Times (UK), October 27, 2003
[Detainees are blindfolded and kept in blackened cells, never told
where they are, brutally interrogated and allowed no visitors of any
kind. Dubbed 'the Israeli Guantanamo,' it's no wonder facility 1391
officially does not exist.--Aviv Lavie, "
Inside Israel's secret prison," Haaretz, November 13, 2003]
[Four former chiefs of Israel's powerful domestic security service
said in an interview published Friday that the government's actions
and policies during the three-year-old Palestinian uprising have
gravely damaged the country and its people.
The four, who variously headed the Shin Bet security agency from
1980 to 2000 under governments that spanned the political spectrum,
said that Israel must end its occupation of the West Bank and Gaza
Strip, that the government should recognize that no peace agreement
can be reached without the involvement of the Palestinian leader,
Yasser Arafat, and that it must stop what one called the immoral
treatment of Palestinians. . . .
The security chiefs denounced virtually every major military and
political tactic of the Sharon administration, adding their voices
to the dissent in Israel against the prime minister's handling of a
conflict that has claimed the lives of more than 2,500 Palestinians
and nearly 900 Israelis and foreigners.--Molly Moore, "Ex-Security Chiefs Turn on Sharon," Washington Post,
November 15, 2003]
[Abrams set to work, trying to gut the text of the road map.--Sidney
Blumenthal, "America's first loyalty was to Ariel Sharon," Guardian (UK),
November 14, 2003]
"SECURITY
COUNCIL ADOPTS RESOLUTION ENDORSING ROAD MAP LEADING TOWARDS
TWO-STATE RESOLUTION OF ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT," United
Nations, November 19, 2003
[Moderate Arab and Israeli politicians hammered out the Geneva
Accord, a symbolic peace plan with no official status,--Eric
Margolis, "Privately
brokered peace best plan yet for Mideast," Toronto Sun, December
7, 2003]
Gideon Levy, "The price of
ignorance," Haaretz, December 28, 2003
Amira Hass, "Words have
failed us," Haaretz, March 3, 2004
Donald Macintyre, "Army chief 'emptied his magazine' at girl in Gaza," Independent,
October 12, 2004
Paul de Rooij, "Amnesty International: A False Beacon?," CounterPunch, October 13, 2004
Jude Wanniski, "Who Failed at Camp
David?," wanniski.com, November 12, 2004