Camp David er brutt sammen, og Clinton kan nå trøste seg og Blair,
som nylig ble kåret til "dem mest velkledte" på G-8 toppmøtet,
med noen solide porsjoner genmanipulert mat, som de jo begge elsker.
G-8-møtets største innsats er således et bidrag til herremotens
nyeste "varianter": blå habitt med slips og hvit skjorte (en
virkelig sensasjon). Tilsatt Blairs falskeste tannpastasmil.
Hertil desPutin som judokonge.
Det har for den tenkende del av menneskeheten i over en menneske-
alder stått klart at palestinerne ikke vil få sin rett sålenge
den israelske røverstaten ikke er knektet. Selv sterkt kapital-
vennlige kretser advarer nå mot at den globale kapitalismen
nærmer seg det perverse. "Internasjonal politikk" er i dag det
største og mest offentlige galehus i historien, takket være
kapitalismens triumfer og uinnskrenkede herredømme.
Karsten Johansen
Daily Telegraph:
PRESIDENT Bill Clinton said the Camp David summit had ended today because no
agreement was yet possible between Israel and the Palestinians, despite
"significant progress" on core issues.
"I have concluded with regret that they will not be able to reach an
agreement," Mr Clinton told reporters at the White House shortly after the
failure of the summit. Mr Clinton said that the future status of Jerusalem,
which is claimed by both sides, was the most "difficult problem." He said
eventually the two sides would be able to bridge the gaps, "because I think
the alternative is unthinkable."
Mr Clinton said that despite the failure of the summit "we made progress on
all the core issues, we made really significant progress on many of them."
He praised Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak for moving forward on the
status of Jerusalem and called on both parties to continue the search for
compromise. "For the sake of their children they must rededicate themselves
to the path of peace," he said. The summit, which also involved Palestinian
leader Yasser Arafat, broke down after 15 days of intense talks.
Mr Barak's spokesman Gadi Baltiansky told reporters: "The Palestinians
refused to relax their stance on the issue of Jerusalem and on other issues,
so the summit failed." He said a senior US envoy would visit the Middle East
soon to see if there was any possibility to continue the negotiations.
A Palestinian official blamed Israel for the talks' failure, but said any
deal that had not met full Palestinian demands would have triggered
political turmoil and violence. "Not signing an agreement is much better
than signing an agreement which would have been self-negating for the
Palestinians and which would lead to further conflict, an internal breakdown
and external conflict," Palestinian spokeswoman Hanan Ashrawi told reporters.
Protests and a general strike are due to be held across the West Bank and
Gaza Strip tomorrow, causing what Dr Ashrawi described as "a dangerous
situation."
The founder and spiritual leader of the Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas
said the failure of the summit was no surprise, and he called for the
Palestinians to use force to recover occupied land. "The failure was
expected before the summit started. The Palestinians should not have taken
part," Sheikh Ahmed Yassin told reporters in Gaza City.
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