Good news from the Middle East for a change!

Sparks

Top leaders of the militant Hamas and Islamic Jihad groups have agreed to halt attacks against Israelis for three months, a Palestinian source said today.

So hopefully talks can resume. Of course, there has to be a fly in every ointment :
President Bush, playing down the possibility of a temporary Hamas cease-fire, said on Wednesday that the Palestinian militant group must be dismantled.

Hobbes

The story I heard on the radio was "Bush said it wasn't enough" and Israel considered the cease fire "A threat to the peace process" :rolleyes:

Of course some people just see it as an excuse to build up. It would be better to take it as it is.

Btw, in other news I see Bush accusing Europe of funding Hamas. I've had a look around and until Bushes comment I can't find anything to back him up (except comments about Muslim charities funding terrorist groups).

Anyone have more information on this? Or is Bush just full of sh!t again (ref: Iraq war, French/Russian bashing).

Dawg

Looks like its already out the window.

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GAZA (Reuters) - Israel killed four Palestinians in a missile strike and gun battle in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday and Palestinian militant leaders denied agreeing to a cease-fire needed to bolster a stumbling new U.S.-backed peace plan.

Éomer of Rohan

The story I heard on the radio was "Bush said it wasn't enough" and Israel considered the cease fire "A threat to the peace process"

Of course some people just see it as an excuse to build up. It would be better to take it as it is.

cf DUP and Ian Paisley vis a vis the PIRA.

Btw, in other news I see Bush accusing Europe of funding Hamas. I've had a look around and until Bushes comment I can't find anything to back him up (except comments about Muslim charities funding terrorist groups)

I think we have an answer to what our 'consequences' will be anyway. Alienate Europe, make it a pariah and bingo, people will buy American. In GWB's little world. It ignores the reality that world wide Europe has many more friends than the US or at least generates a lot less visceral hatred.

Imposter

Originally posted by Hobbes
Btw, in other news I see Bush accusing Europe of funding Hamas. I've had a look around and until Bushes comment I can't find anything to back him up (except comments about Muslim charities funding terrorist groups).

Anyone have more information on this? Or is Bush just full of sh!t again (ref: Iraq war, French/Russian bashing).

He's also started stirring the sh1t on the GM foods front again.

Saw a guy on the news protesting with a sign that read
"STOP THE BUSHit". I thought it was pretty accurate!

Victor

Originally posted by Imposter
He's also started stirring the sh1t on the GM foods front again.

One of the British papers had a piece about how the chemical sassociated with certain GM crops were promoting super weeds (like super-bugs associated with the over-use of anti-biotics).

http://www.edie.net/gf.cfm?L=left_frame.html&R=http://www.edie.net/news/Archive/5149.cfm

bonkey

Originally posted by Victor
One of the British papers had a piece about how the chemical sassociated with certain GM crops were promoting super weeds (like super-bugs associated with the over-use of anti-biotics).

Yeah, but they're obviously pro-EU in their stance. Dubya will trot out his own experts who point and laugh at these findings, and say that this not only proves that the allegations are false, but that the EU is involved in a campaign of deception to fool the consumer into believing that they dont want GM foods.



jc