Netanyahu proposes peace summit with Abbas this month

March 31, 1948. The Cairo-Haifa Express was mined, for the second time in a month, by an electronically-detonated land mine near Benyamina, killing 40 persons and wounding 60 others. April 9, 1948. A combined force of Irgun Zvai Leumi and the Stern Gang, supported by the Palmach forces, captured the Arab village of Deir Yassin and killed more than 200 unarmed civilians, including countless women and children. Older men and young women were captured and paraded in chains in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem; 20 of the hostages were then shot in the quarry of Gevaat Shaul. April 16, 1948. Zionists attacked the former British army camp at Tel Litvinsky, killing 90 Arabs there. April 19, 1948. Fourteen Arabs were killed in a house in Tiberias, which was blown up by Zionist terrorists. May 3, 1948. A book bomb addressed to a British Army officer, who had been stationed in Palestine exploded, killing his brother, Rex Farran.

December 13, 1947 -- February 10, 1948. Seven incidents of bomb-tossing at Arab civilians in cafes and markets, killing 138 and wounding 271 others. There were 9 attacks on Arab buses. Zionists mined passenger trains on at least 4 occasions, killing 93 persons and wounding 161 others. February 15, 1948. Haganah terrorists attacked an Arab village near Safad, blew up several houses, killing 11 Arabs, including 4 children.. March 3, 1948. Heavy damage was done to an Arab-owned building in Haifa (a 7 story block of apartments and shops) by Zionists who drove an army lorry ( truck) up to the building and escaped before the detonation of 400 Ib. of explosives; casualties numbered 11 Arabs and 3 Armenians killed and 23 injured. The Stern Gang claimed responsibility. March 22, 1948. A housing block in Iraq Street in Haifa was blown up killing 17 and injuring 100 others. Four members of the Stern Gang drove two truck-loads of explosives into the street and escaped before the explosion.

June 1947. Letters sent to British Cabinet Ministers were found to contain bombs. September 3, 1947. A postal bomb addressed to the British War Office exploded in the post office sorting room in London, injuring 2 persons. It was attributed to Irgun or Stern Gangs. (The Sunday Times, Sept. 24, 1972, p.8) December 11, 1947. Six Arabs were killed and 30 wounded when bombs were thrown from Jewish trucks at Arab buses in Haifa; 12 Arabs were killed and others injured in an attack by armed Zionists on an Arab coastal village near Haifa. December 13,1947. Zionist terrorists, believed to be members of Irgun Zvai Leumi, killed 18 Arabs and wounded nearly 60 in Jerusalem, Jaffa and Lydda areas. In Jerusalem, bombs were thrown in an Arab market-place near the Damascus Gate; in Jaffa, bombs were thrown into an Arab cafe; in the Arab village of Al Abbasya, near Lydda, 12 Arabs were killed in an attack with mortars and automatic weapons.

Why were they killing Jews? If you find that important, Im sure youll find these actions of Jews killing Palestinians fascinating. Yehida- 12-13 Dec47. 19 dead. Khisas- 18Dec47. 10 dead. Qazaza-19Dec47. 5 children Al-Sheikh-1Jan48. 40 dead Deir Yassin- 9-10 Apr48. 250 dead. Naser Al-Din- 13-14 Apr48. 123 dead Beit Daras- 21May48 All women and children Dahmash Mosque-11Jul48 80-100 dead Lydda & Ramle- ? Jul48 350 dead Dawayma- 29Oct48 80-100 dead..a rape Sharaft 7Feb51 10 dead Kibya-14Oct53 75 dead Kafr Qasem- 29Oct56 48 dead Al-Sammou- 13Nov66 18 dead Oyon Qara- 20May90 13 dead Al-Aqsa Mosque- 8Oct90 22 dead Jabalia-28Mar94 6 dead Eretz Checkpoint 17Jul94 11 dead

May11, 1948. A letter bomb addressed to Sir Evelyn Barker, former Commanding Officer in Palestine, was detected in the nick of time by his wife. April 25, 1948 -- May 13, 1948. Wholesale looting of Jaffa was carried out following armed attacks by Irgun and Haganah terrorists. They stripped and carried away everything they could, destroying what they could not take with them.

January 1, 1948. Haganah terrorists attacked a village on the slopes of Mount Carmel; 17 Arabs were killed and 33 wounded. January 4, 1948. Haganah terrorists wearing British Army uniforms penetrated into the center of Jaffa and blew up the Serai (the old Turkish Government House) which was used as a headquarters of the Arab National Committee, killing more than 40 persons and wounding 98 others. January 5, 1948. The Arab-owned Semiramis Hotel in Jerusalem was blown up, killing 20 persons, among them Viscount de Tapia, the Spanish Consul. Haganah admitted responsibility for this crime. January 7, 1948. Seventeen Arabs were killed by a bomb at the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem, 3 of them while trying to escape. Further casualties, including the murder of a British officer near Hebron, were reported from different parts of the country. January 16, 1948. Zionists blew up three Arab buildings. In the first, 8 children between the ages of 18 months and 12 years, died.

December 19, 1947. Haganah terrorists attacked an Arab village near Safad, blowing up two houses, in the ruins of which were found the bodies of 10 Arabs, including 5 children. Haganah admitted responsibility for the attack. December 29, 1947. Two British constables and 11 Arabs were killed and 32 Arabs injured, at the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem when Irgun members threw a bomb from a taxi. December 30,1947. A mixed force of the Zionist Palmach and the "Carmel Brigade" attacked the village of Balad al Sheikh, killing more than 60 Arabs. 1947 -- 1948. Over 700,000 Palestinian Arabs were uprooted from their homes and land. They have been denied the right to return to their homes and refused compensation for their for the property stolen from them. After their expulsion, the "Israeli Forces" totally obliterated (usually by bulldozing) 385 Arab villages and towns, out of a total of 475. Commonly, Israeli villages were built on the remaining rubble.

August 20, 1937 - June 29, 1939. During this period, the Zionists carried out a series of attacks against Arab buses, resulting in the death of 24 persons and wounding 25 others. November 25, 1940. S.S.Patria was blown up by Jewish terrorists in Haifa harbour, killing 268 illegal Jewish immigrants (see below). November 6, 1944. Zionist terrorists of the Stern Gang assassinated the British Minister Resident in the Middle East, Lord Moyne, in Cairo. July 22, 1946. Zionist terrorists blew up the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, which housed the central offices of the civilian administration of the government of Palestine, killing or injuring more than 200 persons. The Irgun officially claimed responsibility for the incident, but subsequent evidence indicated that both the Haganah and the Jewish Agency were involved. October 1, 1946. The British Embassy in Rome was badly damaged by bomb explosions, for which Irgun claimed responsibility.

You have no idea what peace is,the UN will have to impose a peace process on Israeli.The problem is you talk a good talk,then you announce the expansion of settlements and more land grab. The dumb Americans continue to applause your words,it's ime for America to let the UN handle this matter or take a harsher meaningful stance against you or simple stop American tax dollars from being used to expand settlements and let you fend for yourselfs. Palestinians, need to tie Shalit ( I actually home to see this young man be reunited with his family)also in to any peace deal with Israel, for Shalit should be tied to the stopping of settlement expansion and land grabbing.Palestinians you hold the key to this one, unfortunately any peace deal, Israelis talk about is to stall tactics.It's important for Hamas and Fatah to unite for the good of Palestinian people,this way Israel will be force to serious peace talk,but Shalit must be tied to any peace talk, this will keep the Israelis honest.

The proposed idea of a peace summit in Egypt is important to set the stage for negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians as the parties seem to realize that by neglecting to do so increases the likelihood of escalating provocations which will sabotage a permanent peace agreement. It's a difficult process filled with various accusations of mistrust, however if the political echelons in all earnest takes hold of the reins for the rest to follow, then there's a great chance of positive progress in the near future. I've said repeatedly that the ramifications of a comprehensive peaceful resolution are of international importance and therefore cannot be ignored.

And Jews killing 6 Palestinians isn't designed to sabotage peace talks? We don't trust Nethanyahu. And we don't trust Abbas! Full stop.

... as far as Bibi et al are concerned...

well, we have looked at the map, and we have read your post, and all the posts by the other arabs and we have concluded that israel will never be accepted by the arabs as a sovereign jewish state whatever are the borders. thus we conclude that any and all negotiations with the arabs are futile. obama and his state department need to wake up and understand this very simple reality.

Has Netanyahu discussed this with Lieberman ? Justice takes precedence over peace - Netanyahu has a wide choice of how to start implementing it. Perhaps by releasing Jamal Juma', human rights worker arrested, held incommunicado, treated for absolutely no reason as a criminal since 16 December ?

whenever things get too calm, israel stokes the fire and the blood feud resumes. that's how it convinces the world that IT'S the victim... only the world is paying increasingly closer attention these days...

Because the myth that Palestinian violence is a response to the 1967 occupation is just that, a myth. As is the myth that it is a response to the founding the state of Israel. Arabs murdering Jews in the Holy Land had been going on for quite a while by the time Israel was founded, with a mass slaughter of a whole Jewish community in Hebron in 1929. Current propaganda artificially links the violence to the "occupation" in order to pressure the international community to believe that giving up land will somehow bring peace...but the killing was going on long before the state was established, and those who know history understand that merely giving up land will not address the root cause of that violence. The Muslim Brotherhood, who had a hand in the Hebron slaughter of 1929, had as its stated goal driving out (or killing) every last Jew in the Holy Land. That's 18 years before Israel was even founded.

Same as the pig that appears as kosher but is not , so are arabs politics that appears leaning to peace but are not about peace . The terror attack against Rabbi Chai was committed with Abbas knowledge and approval . and http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1139142.html Last update - 22:15 31/12/2009 Gaza militants fire Grad rocket into Netivot By Yanir Yagana, Haaretz Correspondent Tags: Israel news, Gaza

how can anyone be so stupid?

because they wanted to regain control of their country which they could see being colonized by the zionists? Why were the zionists killing Palestinians since before WWII?

TO: Alan SA Maybe it had something to do with the mass theft of Palestinian land by the Israelis. The Israelis have had a lot of practice in their theft of land since then. Most of the Palestinians being killed by the Israelis now were not even born before the Six Day War in 1965. Your argument lacks any substance.

Because it was their achievement.

That includes Tel Aviv and Haifa.

Why were they killing Jews before Six Day War in 1965? Hmmm, let's see--the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which gave carte blanche for a massive migration to Palestine (with only 9% Jewish population at the time), the Irgun, Hagannah, Palmach, the massacres of Deir Yassin, Qilqilya, etc., the expulsion of 750,000 native Arabs from what is today called Israel, the destruction of over 450 Arab villages, replaced by Jewish only settlements... Now how could that possibly have riled any normal person?

With aspirations of distorting language - particularly the words and phrases apartheid, holocaust, ethnic cleansing, genocide etc.

Alan- Let us not be silly. The modern state of Israel has been killing Palestinians since its inception. I hope that clears things up for you.

There is no place for the Palestinians in Israel. There is no way they will remain in Judea and Samaria. Why don't they just stop whining and leave? No one is going to help them and Israel will never stop it's efforts to force them out. Of course Israel will never allow the Palestinians to prosper in peace. That would defeat it's purpose. Mr. Abbas meant well, he tried peace, and it is clear that waging peace will never achieve a Palestinian State. There is no future for Palestinians in the region. No one wants them, and they can't stay where they are. Time to seek a 'Palestinian Homeland' somewhere else.

"Why were they killing Jews BEFORE 6 DAY WAR in Jan 65?" Perhaps because of the massacre at Dier Yassen starting on 9 April 1948. Or the massacre at Caesarea on 20 Feb 1948. Or the massacre at Ein ez Zeitun on 1 May 1948. Or the massacre at Kabri on 20 May 1948. Or the massacre at Dahmash mosque in al-Lydd on 12 July 1948. Or the massacre at Arab Suqrir on 29 August 1948. And these atrocities were only the beginning on the history of Israeli brutality and oppression. Why, indeed, would Palestinians resist?

When will you let go of events that happened more than 45 years ago and look to the future??? It is a different world today, and I am sure it is going to be different 45 years from now. Or maybe it is another Israeli attempt at mudding up the peace process...

... if Abbas returned to the table and behaved like an intelligent person. It is odd how Abbas and the Left continue to think all the WB "belongs" to Arabs. Jordan did kill and otherwise make the WB Jew-free in 1948. But in 1967, when Jordan started another war, did the WB Arabs help the IDF drive out the Jordan Army? Hardly. So why do they believe that IDF won the WB for them? It is natural and right that the exiled Jews would return. The ownership of exactly what is to be determined by negotiations, not by Abbas making stupid talk. Abbas is so out of touch that he apparently doesn't even know why the three terrorists in Nablus were neutralized.

The Pals won't fall into the "trap" and resort to violence??? Then who was it that killed hundreds of innocent Israelis over the last few years? And who continues to fire rockets into Israeli towns abutting Gaza (without a peep from Goldstone)?? The Martians?

Alan SA, thats because no matter what the UN says, the establishment of Israel resulted in the unjust expropriation of the indigenous Arab Palestinians, thats why

1965, not 1967 is the key here and it shows that Israel stopped Fatah in it's tracks from destroying our families and nation. Fatah keeps trying and their aim as we see is to steal all the land of Israel from the Jewish people through lying, terrorism and war.

This is a good thing. Abbas, while not agreeing with Israel, is fighting for his cause in a non-violet way. Lets see if he can keep things quiet... I hope so...

... because Jews had occupied Tel Aviv in Jan 65.

To bring any Rockets with you are you? Or suicide bombers? Are you tellin the truth?

Beit Duras Operation plan D Houla Massacre. Dier Yassin, ETC. ETC. ETC. ETC. PS THE 6 day war was in 67 June not 65

Never willing to discuss any proposal, except the one they turned down previously -- after it's too late. Then whining to Europe once again about how they can't get a break.

Then what was the Grad missile fired into Netivot today? If Mr Abbas is looking for punch balls who'll turn the other cheek when his thugs come around,he'd better send them to a monastery.Jews don't do it any more;the old days are over except for the fossils with hardened arteries. THREE CHEERS FOR ISRAEL!!!

abbas is the best partner we have for peace, can you immagine the worst? If he accuses us now while trying to achieve a settlement with Israel, G_d knows what he will say or do afterword.

Didn't Abbas realize political Zionists were playing him for a fool? Too bloody late to declare Zionists are "killing Palestinians." Stupid man, he is leading his people to the slaughter!

then you can't make peace with them. You can have detante, a truce and the like, but you won't have peace. You will have another generation trained to believe that Jews came to Palastine out of the blue with no legitimate reasons to be there and who have to be tolerated until they can be defeated. That is not a recipe for a stable peace. When Palastinians acknowledge that Jews have their own ties to the land, that Jews have a right to have their own state and that Palastinian beligerency was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands who were foreclosed from emigrating to Palastine to escape the Holocaust, then there's a shot a lasting peace. Palastinians want their own identity and national story acknowledged by Jews and by the world, yet they do not want to respect the identity and national story of Jews. They do not even see the hypocracy of demanding respect that they are not willing to give.

Perhaps the better question than that posed above is this one... How is it that a nation populated by people and the descendants of people who have had so much suffering visited upon them can so easily visit such suffering upon others? Think about that. Please.

conflict, you were privately encouraging the Israelis to take out Hamas. No?

what's your point, Mr. Abbas? As you clearly can't protect the Jewish people, the Jewish People will protect themselves. You protecting murderers is what is trully despicable and atrocious.

They have been killing Jews well before the State of Israel. After 1948, they began a systematic killing spree under the guise of the Fedayeen. No matter how sweet Abu Mazen may sound, he is a terrorist, now supposedly retired with a new job description. Happy New Year.

Israel has the 4th most powerful army in the world and deploys it (as in Gaza) with brutal force. So Palestinians have no chance of a military victory. Settlements have put an end to a realistic two-state solution. So surely Palestinians should now consider demanding a vote. They have been ruled by the IDF for 40 years whereas settlers are ruled by Israeli civil law which they elect. This is at the heart of the discrimination between the Palestinians and Israeli settlers. Both groups should come under a civilian jurisdiction - either a Palestinian one (two-states) or an Israeli one (one-state). Even Olmert recognised this reality. While Israel continues to rule 4 million Palestinians without allowing them a vote for those who control them it cannot claim to be a true democracy - especially when 450,000 settlers in the same land do have a vote.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said "As we make achievements," he said, "the Israeli government and the more extreme elements escalate their measures against us." So what are their achievements? It must be war related because Israel has escalated her defenses against them. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas makes the palestinian government sound so innocent doesn't he?

"Hello, Palestinian police, what is your emergency?"