This is such Zionist stink shit propaganda, it is nearly unbelievable.
(And the New York Times has not a word, of course!)
First of all, give up Palestinians, you have lost. Like Hezbollah did last summer, right?
Hey, Israel can wipe them out, re-invade like they say they are going to, etc, etc, but Israel will NEVER WIN the MORAL BATTLE!
Therefore, they have LOST before they have even begun!
"After losses, Palestinian zeal for intifadah flags; Many are asking whether revolt has helped them" by Mohammed Daraghmeh, Associated Press | September 30, 2007
RAMALLAH, West Bank - Every year, large rallies in the territories and abroad had commemorated the anniversary of the Palestinian uprising that broke out in 2000. But this year, there was nothing, and Palestinians are asking themselves whether anything at all was gained from the revolt.
Many Palestinians say they are worse off now, increasingly worried about internal fighting and further from statehood than when the uprising erupted on Sept. 28, 2000, after former Israeli leader Ariel Sharon visited a disputed holy shrine in Jerusalem and a US-sponsored Mideast peace summit failed.
"It is a silent admission on the part of Palestinians that the uprising has been an unmitigated disaster," prominent pollster Khalil Shikaki said of the absence of commemorations.
For years, Palestinians hit Israel with suicide bombers and rockets, and Israel struck back with aerial attacks, ground incursions, and arrest raids.
Yup, Israel always STRIKES BACK!!
Yup, little shitstink Israel never oppresses and invades, occupies and murders.
Whatever, shit MSM!
But the vastly outgunned Palestinians have been exhausted by the armed confrontation. A total of 4,453 Palestinians have been killed, along with 1,114 Israelis.
[That usually gives you a barometer of the aggressor.
Four to-one ratio of kills (no doubt skewed by the Zionist press) indicates who the aggressor is: ISRAEL!!!!!
Israel has built a West Bank barrier, which it says was designed to keep out attacks. But the enclosure dips into the West Bank at various points, putting 8.5 percent of the territory on the Israeli side. In Palestinian eyes, it is a thinly veiled land grab.
Israel has reoccupied West Bank towns and cities, sharply restricted Palestinian movement within the West Bank, and banned traffic between the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Palestinian dependence on foreign aid has grown, and most Gazans survive on less than $2 a day.
[But no problem, no reporting, no nothing.
LAND-STEALING SWINE!]
The number of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, meanwhile, has soared, from about 1,650 to 11,000.
[Not a problem with the NaZionist press, though, 'eh?
It always Muslim "hostage-takers" that are the problem.
Not secret sites for secret torture!]
"Everything came to a standstill for seven years," said Adnan Attari, a 30-year-old merchant from a village near the West Bank town of Ramallah. "We didn't move forward but backward."
[You were not going to move anyway, sir!
Israel has made clear they are interested in nothing but war!]
But the lack of commemoration reflects more than the uprising's setbacks. With the Hamas and Fatah factions locked in a battle for power, Palestinians are more concerned about their internal security than their conflict with Israel, polls show.
[Strange how Hamas' electoral victory and "seizure" of Gaza WORKED OUT PERFECTLY for Israel, huh, readers?
CUI BONO, 'eh?]
Fierce infighting began after the militant Islamists of Hamas won 2006 parliamentary elections, then came to a head in June, when Hamas violently seized control of Gaza from Fatah. The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah, immediately expelled Hamas from power and set up his own rival government in the West Bank.
[But not that they were VIOLENTLY OCCUPIED by Israel -- which just so happens to KILL KIDS (play the interactive video so you can see the beautiful Palestine children Israel took from this earth!)!!!!
But that is not bloody violence like a Muslim would do!]
The Israeli and Egyptian borders with Gaza have been sealed to traffic and goods, and last week Israel declared Gaza a hostile territory because of Palestinian rocket fire into Israeli towns.
Manal Shaheen, a 36-year-old Gaza mother of three, said the current hardships after the Gaza-West Bank breach have eclipsed the uprising. "Our terrible state has made us even forget important dates in our lives," Shaheen said.
Hamas, which led the armed struggle at its height, vowed that the uprising would continue until Israel is expelled from Palestinian territories.
But David Baker, an Israeli official, said the Palestinians have exchanged their "strategic decision to confront Israel via this terror" for a decision to work for a two-state solution. The United States hopes to build on new peace momentum with an international peace conference in Annapolis, Md., in November.
"We do believe that something has happened and for the better," Baker said.
At the United Nations on Friday, Abbas said his government was completely committed to the US-proposed peace conference, and he vowed that the "olive branch of peace" would not fall from his hands.
[Not while USrael is funding his Fatah murderers, anyway!]
Abbas reiterated his government's position that the key to solving the decades-old conflict between Israel and the Palestinians lay in directly addressing the divisive "final status" issues, including Palestinian statehood, the status of Jerusalem, and the right of return for refugees.
[You gonna be disappointed, stooge!]
The November meeting proposed by the Bush administration is aimed at bringing together all parties involved in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, including key regional players such as Syria and Saudi Arabia, as well as Jordan and Egypt, which have already signed peace agreements with Israel.
Hamas has opposed the meeting from the outset, and concerns remain that its continued rejection, along with Hamas's refusal to recognize Israel or to rule out violence against the Jewish state, could scuttle any gains."
[Which is all MORE ZIONIST LIES if you go to the web and check for yourself.
Start with this blog: Desert Peace.]
Meanwhile, here is your success story of Arab-Israeli integration.
Never mind that the article gives you no context.
Makes it sound like Jews and Muslims have been at each other forever, when we all know Jews lived in peace and respect in Muslim lands until 1948 and the siting of that shitstink state!
That is what has led to ALL the problems: the NaZionist invasion and occupation of the Holy Land!
However, I would expect nothing less from my shitstink War Dailies!
"Israeli village is laboratory of peace
By Ken Ellingwood, Los Angeles Times | September 30, 2007
NEVE SHALOM, Israel - The music blared in Arabic as a knot of women twirled slowly around the bride-to-be. Well-dressed onlookers, some in traditional Muslim head scarves, clapped and swayed. On this evening of celebration, the fireworks sizzled, sweets beckoned, and jubilant guests congratulated the Arab bride's parents with a double kiss and hearty "mazel tov!"
Mazel tov?
"It's very normal," said Nava Sonnenschein, one of the Jews clapping at the edge of the dance circle, "for here."
The usual rules of the Middle East often don't apply in Neve Shalom, founded in the 1970s as a utopian village on a hilltop in Israel's midsection. For nearly three decades, its inhabitants have sought to defy the polarizing tugs of politics and nationalism.
Though most Jews and Arabs in Israel are kept apart by segregated communities and long years of mutual mistrust, Neve Shalom and its 250 residents - half Jews, half Arab citizens of Israel - represent a living experiment in integration.
[The one place Israel isn't a rabid racist state!]
Schoolchildren learn Hebrew and Arabic together, a rarity in Israel, and play at one another's homes. Residents enjoy an equal say in running affairs and have elected Jews and Arabs as mayor.
[Not before it was created!!!
But the Zionist press says it's the Israeli village that is the peace lab!
Of course, it is the Israeli nation that is the WAR LAB!!!!!
Don't expect the shitstink Zionist press to frame the issue that way!]
Even the name is bilingual. In Arabic, it is called Wahat al-Salam, though the Israeli government has never recognized that part.
A half-hour drive from Jerusalem, Neve Shalom is both a functioning community and a peace movement showcase. It has a website and a parking lot for buses.
But this is no theme park. The affections and hurts are real, the gains and setbacks intimately felt. Alongside its taboo-breaking, the community has shown how hard it can be for Jews and Arabs to fully understand each other, even when they are trying.
[And we all know why: LYING, LAND-STEALING, MASS-MURDERING, GENOCIDAL NaZionists!!!!!!]
Few know better than Abdessalam Najjar, 55, a village leader with a balding head and pencil-thin beard tracing his jawline. Najjar, the father of the bride, moved to Neve Shalom in 1979 with a new wife, Ayshe, and a heart full of hope.
He was 27 and willing to take a chance, she 19 and in need of some persuading. Najjar, a devout Muslim, had been involved in discussion groups with Jews while studying at a branch of Hebrew University in nearby Rehovot.
The Najjars were the first Arab family to join Neve Shalom. Almost 30 years later, they are mainstays, well liked and respected across the community. Najjar has been mayor and is working with a Jewish colleague in developing the community's new spiritual center for interfaith conferences, lectures on peace topics, and prayer.
Neve Shalom's residents, mostly left-leaning professionals and academics, have been tested by two Palestinian uprisings, war in Lebanon, and a steep deterioration in relations between Jews and Arabs in Israel.
[How about the Arab's being tested by withstanding Israel's mass-murdering ways?
How about that, assholes?!
Naawwwww, LYING, LAND-STEALING, MASS-MURDERING, GENOCIDAL NaZionists!!!!!!
The village today carries tempered aspirations and scars from past political fights. Not all of these are over yet.
Jewish and Arab residents spar over whether Neve Shalom Jews should perform compulsory service in the Israeli army. Arabs in Israel are not summoned to serve, and many object to residents of a "peace village" enlisting in the army.
Some residents from both groups, now in middle age, fear that the village has lost some of its political daring.
It is perhaps telling that the burning issue these days is not potential peace talks but whether Neve Shalom residents can formalize their hold on the plots where they built homes years ago on land that was shared without private ownership."
[Israel gonna steal MORE LAND?]
