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Arab League chief walks out on Israel's Peres at Petra conference

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Jun 19, 2008, 6:56 GMT


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Yaakov SullivanJun 20th, 2008 - 03:48:13

As a gay Catholic I realize that Egypt jailed my previous lover 2 years ago. He is still in jail. I am married now but I still miss him.Mr. Emr Moussa needs to look at the mirror!

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davidJun 21st, 2008 - 06:43:08

What was Mussa hoping to achieve by his petulance in Petra? Clearly he is very frustrated as he sees the Roadmap disappearing down the diplomatic drain as the Arabs continue their intransigent demands that Israel return to the 4 June 1967 borders and 450000 Jews pack up and vacate their homes.

His remarks repeated the tired old mantra castigating the Jews for wanting to live in any part of their biblical heartland whilst serving to detract any attention from the ineffectual role played by the 22 members of the Arab League in realising the objectives of the Road Map in these four key areas:

1. Failing to prevent Gaza and the West Bank being split into two separate territorial units under two different power structures.

2. Failing to persuade either Egypt or Jordan to offer part of their lands to the Palestinian Arabs as an inducement to moderating the Arab League demand for 100% of the West Bank and Gaza

3. Failing to have the border between Gaza and Egypt opened to allow the humanitarian flow of food and medicine into Gaza or to allow Gazans the opportunity to emigrate through Egypt to other Arab States either temporarily or permanently.

4. Pledging no more than a miserly 20% of the total pledges made at the international donors fund set up in Paris to help their own brothers and allowing many pledges to still remain unpaid.

Mussa’s grandstanding has only lowered - not elevated - his own standing. The Arabs may not be fools - Mussa certainly is.

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