Interesting. I hadn't actually read it, I just assumed that the reporting was at least somewhere in the neighboorhood of reasonable. What a crazy-ass document.
Even more interesting, most of the links I found list only the 18 points of the referendum; they fail to list the full text of the document, which includes a preamble that reads like a jihad text. Here is a link with the full document: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Peace/palreferendum.html The text of the preamble is below. AP specifically failed to include the preamble in its report of the text of the referendum. ------ In the name of God<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/name.html>, the Merciful, the Compassionate; "And hold fast, all together, by the rope which Allah (stretches out for you), and be not divided among yourselves [ Koranic <http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Bible/Quran.html>Verse]." Out of a high sense of national and historical responsibility; in view of the dangers facing our people; in order to enhance the domestic Palestinian <http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Peace/palstoc.html>front and safeguard the national unity and the unity of our people in the homeland and in exile; in order to confront the Israeli enterprise, which aims to impose an Israeli solution, destroy our people's dream and right to establish a fully sovereign Palestinian state - the Israeli government intends to implement this plan during the coming stage by completing the construction of the racial wall<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Peace/fence.html>, Judaizing Jerusalem<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Peace/jerutoc.html>, expanding the Israeli settlements<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Peace/settletoc.html>, seizing the Jordan Valley<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Society_&_Culture/geo/rift.html>, annexing large parts of the West Bank<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Peace/wbtoc.html>and preventing our people from exercising their right to return<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/talking/2_return.html>; in order to preserve the accomplishments of our people, which they achieved during their long march of struggle; in loyalty to the martyrs of our great people and in recognition of the woes of their prisoners and the wounded; based on the fact that we are still in a liberation stage the main feature of which is national and democratic, which necessitates a struggle and political strategy commensurate with this feature; in order to render the comprehensive national dialogue successful based on the Cairo Declaration and the urgent need for unity based on all that, we present this document to our great, steadfast people, to Prime Minister Isma'il Haniyah<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Haniyeh.html>, to the Palestine National Council chairman and members, to the Palestinian Legislative Council Speaker and members, to all the Palestinian forces and factions, to all the non-governmental and popular institutions and organizations, and to the leaders of Palestinian public opinion in the homeland and in exile. We hope they will consider this document as an indivisible whole, and we hope it will be approved and supported by everyone and mainly contribute to reaching the Palestinian national accord document: ------- On 8/16/06, Michael wrote: > > Except if you read the text of the so called referendum, it does not say > anything about peace. Go, read it and tell us rather than having me do so. > > > > Abbas was ready to hold a referendum on making peace with Israel, and on > > the > > Palestinian side of things, one can easliy see how this latest violence > > was > > cooked up by Hamas specifically to prevent a referendum from going > > forward, > > because a referendum for peace essentially means the end of Hamas as a > > political force. > > > > On 8/16/06, Gruss wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >> The Palestinians have to take responsibility for that and now they've > >> elected Hamas! Where's that getting them? At some point they have > >> to, as a people, elect good leaders. > >> > > > > > > -- > > --------------- > > Robert Munn > > www.funkymojo.com > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:213365 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
