Attempts by the US to reach a peace between Israel and The Palestinians.
(1) became the first American president to officially support a Palestinian
state,
(2) gave a major policy address outlining a new process to achieve it,
notwithstanding the collapse of the Oslo process,
(3) convinced the U.N.,
E.U. and Russia to formally endorse the process, in the form of a Road Map with
specific phases and timelines,
(4) got both Israel and the
Palestinians to formally commit themselves to the three-phase plan,
(5)
negotiated a disengagement
deal under which Israel (whose Phase I obligation was only to dismantle
certain post-2000 "outposts") dismantled every settlement in Gaza and totally
withdrew its forces from the area, to give the Palestinians the chance to
demonstrate their ability to live "side by side in peace and security,"TM
(6) insisted as part of the deal that Israel also withdraw from settlements
in the West Bank to demonstrate that the disengagement process would not end
with Gaza,
(7) assisted the Palestinians in holding their first truly
contested election, giving them the opportunity to vote among competing parties
and freely choose their leaders, and
(8) greatly increased American
humanitarian aid to the Palestinians both before and after those elections
How they responded to these actions.
(1) continued their war against Israel, with waves of mass-murder bombers in
cafes, buses, seders
and other civilian areas, intentionally targeting women and children,
(2)
did nothing to start dismantling their terrorist infrastructure, as they had
promised to do,
(3) began a massive smuggling operation of weaponry into
Gaza,
(4) fired thousands of rockets, on a daily basis, into Israeli border
cities and kibbutzim (in numbers that increased once Israel withdrew),
(5)
crossed into Israel and killed and kidnapped Israeli soldiers,
(6) used a
kidnapped Israeli soldier as a hostage to make ludicrous demands for the release
of Palestinian murderers and thousands of others from prisons in which they were
lawfully held,
(7) continued to receive hundreds of millions of dollars of
aid without making any significant dent in their endemic corruption and
mismanagement, and
(8) elected an arch-terrorist group to run their
government.
It is a sad state that the Palestinians are in right now, but they have to look no farther than the leaders of their government to find the blame.
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