George W. Bush Quotes
I was not pleased that Hamas has refused to announce its desire to destroy Israel.
Bush, George W. "Remarks to the Travel Pool in San Martin, California." Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George W. Bush, 2006, Book 1, Office of the Federal Register, 2010, p. 817.
This clause has been the cause of immense problems in the Mid-East. Hamas castigates any Palestinian who even suggests that there should be negotiations with Israel that are sincere as nothing less than the end of Israel is consistent with their charter. Anyone who uses the peace process for anything else but tactical advantage and buying time to strike again is a traitor. Meanwhile, the clause is taken be Israel to demonstrate that there is no point to any negotiations so long as the Palestinian Authority allows such an organization with this charter clause to be legal and operate in the open. The Palestinian Authority leadership are not willing to risk a civil war, and thus little or no progress is made.
The Arab League Members have historically been at each others throats with little concordance except hatred of Israel and Jews
Hamas had, in a bloody armed coup, seized control of the Gaza Strip from the Palestinian Authority, and refusing to negotiate with the Israelis undermined the Palestinian hopes of peace talks with Israel. The PA could no longer speak for the Palestinians. Hamas a particularly aggressive terrorist organization whose charter called for the death of all Jews in the world, wanted to force the Palestinian Authority to join them in terrorist attacks on Israel. The Palestinians had renounced terrorism and violence. The Hamas fighters were planning to fire rockets at Israel from the West Bank and launching other terrorist attacks against Israel, hoping that Israel would retaliate against the Palestinian Authority by attacking the West Bank which had not been destroyed at all while Gaza had lost much of its infrastructure and 2,000 lives. The Palestinian Authority was not about to let themselves get sucked into a war that they could not possible win and was contrary to the policies of Prime Minister Abbas and his elected government.
Clinton had been spending the greater part of his time trying to mediate the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Arab terrorists were raiding Israel. The United States, not yet having experienced September 11 was urging Israel not to retaliate and quietly allow diplomacy to operate.
The PLO and the Popular Front were guests in Jordan but would not submit to Jordanian sovereignty and control. The Palestinians then tried to take over Jordan. As a result, the Jordanians expelled the Palestinians from Jordan.
George Walker Bush is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, Bush previously served as the 46th governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. He was born into the Bush family; his father, George H. W. Bush, was the 41st president of the United States from 1989 to 1993.
