- ANNAPOLIS (CITV) November
28, 2007 -- Yesterday, Israeli and Palestinian leaders wrapped up a one
day peace conference in Annapolis, Maryland, the city that--besides being
the locale where many treaties and agreements between adversaries over
its 350 year history have been signed--was also the place of the most serious
espionage ever to take place in US history, where Jonathon Pollard stole
and then sold to Israel some 800,000 pages of highly-classified national
defense material. The meeting was the brainchild of George Bush, a man
of peace himself, and a recovering alcoholic and born-again Christian who
once called Ariel Sharon (war criminal for his role in the deaths of as
many as 20,000 people during Lebanon's civil war) a "man of peace".
The Israelis and the Palestinians agreed to a final peace, the mother of
all peaces.
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- Terms of the peace agreement include the following---The
Israelis agreed to evacuate the West Bank and Gaza Strip within one month
of today's date. They decided to free Palestinian kidnappees--as many as
10,000 in number, including children as young as 12 years--held inside
the many facilities in "Israel" and in occupied Palestinian land.
In addition, Israel agreed to immediately start demolishing the Wall--the
brainchild of the previously-mentioned 'man of peace' Ariel Sharon--built
to choke the life out of the helpless Palestinian people. In a gesture
aimed at building trust and confidence, the Israelis (taking to heart the
hard lessons they learned from the Holocaust and their own instances of
being expelled from virtually every country in which their ancestors have
resided) decided to allow the return of all Palestinian refugees (as many
as 750,000 in number) as well as their descendants who were forced out
of their homes in 1948 and around half a million in 1967. Owing to
the fact that Israel derives billions of dollars from Holocaust reparations
from Western nations as a result of what took place during WWII, Israel
decided to do the same for the Palestinians by offering reparations to
those not wishing to return to their homes. Israel also promised to compensate
every person it had kidnapped or tortured for their pain and suffering
and for time lost from work and family.
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- Understanding that the holy city of Jerusalem is sacred
not only to Jews but to Christians and Muslims as well, without even discussing
the issue Israel gave the Palestinian side the promise of evacuating East
Jerusalem and all the illegal settlements built on Palestinian land around
Jerusalem and throughout Palestine in order to make room for the new Palestinian
state. In addition, Israel offered to leave these settlements functioning
for the newly arriving Palestinians from the refugee camps of Lebanon and
Syria, swimming pools, tennis courts, golf courses and all. The Palestinian
side offered the settlers the option of staying in their homes and becoming
part of the new Palestinian State.
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- Water was the sticky issue of the whole conference, as
Israel hoped the Palestinians would share some of the water located under
Palestinian land. As yet another gesture of Israel's willingness to bend
over backwards in the interests of attaining peace, Olmert and his negotiators
promised to limit the size of swimming pools inside Israeli residential
homes, the Palestinians in return promised to drink water once a day and
take a shower once a month.
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- The Israelis agreed to allow Palestinians to go back
to their old jobs in Israel and to remove all border crossings between
it and its newly neighboring state of Palestine. Israel decided to bring
back and re-plant the 1.5 million olive trees it illegally cut down, destroyed
and more often transported to "Israel" from the Palestinians.
The Israelis presented the Palestinians with a map of Israel with borders
similar to the Partition Plan of 1947 by the UN. To help develop the new
state, Israel agreed to give back all the monies it illegally collected
from the Palestinians, and, in addition, to rebuild every home it had demolished
in the last 60 years.
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- The Israelis rejected all calls to designate Israel as
a 'Jewish' state as they felt this was not a good way to start a relationship
with their Arab friends and citizens. Since they pride themselves on being
the only democracy in the Middle East and are constantly lecturing other
countries (particularly those that are Muslim) on the dangers of theocratic
and racially-exclusive regimes and believing in the separation of church
and state they concluded that making Israel a 'Jewish' state would go above
and beyond the principles of democracy that the Israelis believe so much
in. The Israeli team felt that nothing less than a complete undoing of
the injustice that was done to the Palestinians, and the fulfillment of
UN resolutions especially 194, and 242 would bring true peace
to the Land Of Peace.
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- At the end of the conference, the Arabs, willing to turn
the other cheek and let bygones be bygones, thanked and kissed their "cousins"
the Jews for this important conference ending all wars and the century-old
hatred between the two cousins, the sons of Abraham. At that moment however,
and much to the surprise of the Arabs, all hell broke loose. The Israelis
were offended. They believed the Arabs were trying to trap them into the
mistaken notion that Arabs and Jews were cousins. The Israelis were offended
by this association because they felt that--due to the fact that 90% of
their Jewish citizens in Israel and 99% of Jews outside Israel are
not true descendents of Abraham but rather are of European stock, that
this move on the Arabs' part was nothing more than a sneaky attempt at
'Semitizing' the Jews of today and that this would spell the end of Zionism,
because now the true Semites were identified. At that moment George Bush
stepped in to save the moment. In the spirit of his naturally
funny statements in which he is so famous for, he said, hey, Abraham had
many sons, Ishmael, Isaac, and Bernstein. He was serious, they all laughed.
He said Israel now understands that it must do what is right for its people
and future generations, it must undo the injustice done to the Palestinian
people in the last 100 years.
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- Things went so well at the meeting that the Sole Legitimate
Representative of the Palestinian People did not even need to be there,
the Palestine Liberation Organization that is, also known as the PLO, the
forgotten one. That is a great indication of how smooth things went at
the meeting. The Israelis even had the IMF and the World Bank invited to
Annapolis to be there and ready with the check book to help the poor, and
hungry Palestinians. What else do Palestinians want? They will be going
back to their homes, they will have a state, a viable one that is, they
will have Jerusalem, water, borders pushing back to 1947 Partition Plan,
and everything else that was taken away from them. There is one thing though
Israel could not give them back, their dignity, or is it the Arab dignity?
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