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To: ggersh who wrote (55612)	6/22/2014 6:28:11 PM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71479

From Monday's Telegraph A fateful decision now facing Palestinians By Alan Johnson World Last updated: June 22nd, 2014 1 Comment Comment on this article The kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers has brought the Palestinian national movement to a crossroads. As the rescue mission for the students enters its 11th day, one part of the Palestinian “unity government” is now working hand-in-glove with Israel to find Naftali Fraenkel, Gilad Shaar and Eyal Yifrach, who have apparently been captured by another part of that same government. Of the 350 arrests made in the West Bank, perhaps 200 are Hamas members – including dozens released in the 2011 prisoner swap for the kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. “Everything coloured green [the Hamas colour] is being rounded up,” said an Israeli spokesman, “from a computer hard drive to [Hamas MP] Hassan Yousef. We want (people) to understand the meaning of having a Hamas foothold in the West Bank.” Two very different roads now lie before the Palestinian people. One is favoured by President Mahmoud Abbas, whose Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces are working with the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) to find the boys. This road leads to the eventual resumption of the negotiations led by US Secretary of State John Kerry, a historic compromise, painful mutual recognition, Palestinian statehood and peace. In other words two states for two peoples. The other road, signposted “resistance”, is that being taken by the kidnappers, the unreconstructed radical Islamists of Hamas. And it goes nowhere. The choice – for a compromise peace or a glorious but never-ending resistance, the dull prose of the two-state compromise or the uplifting poetry of the one-state illusion – will decisively shape the fate not just of the peace process but of the two peoples. The early indications are that the allure of “resistance” remains powerful. The official daily Palestinian Authority newspaper Al-Hayat Al Jadida has published cartoons mocking the three students and celebrating their capture. The Fatah Facebook page featured a cartoon of three rats dangling from a line, while Fatah activists instructed shopkeepers in the vicinity of the abduction to destroy their CCTV footage. Sweets were handed out on the streets (a traditional gesture of celebration) and many children have been photographed, smiling, with three fingers held high. Hamas is exultant, and though it denies responsibility, the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Sunday’s weekly Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem that he had shared “unequivocal proof that this is Hamas” with several governments and would soon share that proof with the world. Siren voices tempting the Palestinian people down the rejectionist road can be heard within the notoriously unrepresentative leadership of Israel’s Arab community. Hanin Zoabi, a Knesset member for the Balad party, has provoked outrage in Israel by denying the kidnappings are acts of terrorism and by denouncing Abbas as “a traitor to the Palestinian people” for cooperating with the IDF in the search. Abbas himself has taken a different road, unequivocally condemning the kidnapping in front of a gathering of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) in Saudi Arabia of all places. For this, the veteran Israeli columnist Ben-Dror Yemini writing in the biggest-selling Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth yesterday hailed Abbas in a column titled “The birth of a leader”. He compared him, rather extravagantly, to Israel’s first prime minister David Ben-Gurion, who famously said that leadership means knowing there are moments when, “what matters is not what the people want, but what the people need”. Yemini also sketched out the potential implications for Israel. “The Palestinians have a leader. Israel has a partner. When the dust of the kidnapping settles, we need to strengthen him,” he said. Justice Minister Tzipi Livni has also urged Netanyahu to support a beleaguered Abbas, and urged a new alliance of “Israel, the world, and the moderate and pragmatic on the Palestinian side” to combine “against the terrorist Hamas and in that way bring back the chance of returning to negotiations and the two-state solution.” Livni called on Netanyahu to adopt different strategies towards Hamas and Abbas: “We need to act against Hamas and see if it is possible to cooperate with Abbas.” Yet preoccupied with Ukraine and now Iraq, the world seems to be in no hurry to join such an alliance. “Where are you?” asked Ron Prosser, Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations last week – and he was talking not of Naftali, Gilad and Eyal, but of the international community. A disturbing number of opinion-formers in the West struggle to see that the Palestinians now face a fateful decision. The problem is partly psychological: the world infantalises the Palestinians, treating them as below the age of responsibility, always locating the source of their behaviour in Israel’s actions. Of course, Israel has to compromise and divide the land, making possible a Palestinian state. But if the Palestinians are treated as children, never held accountable for encouraging a culture of hate, then they will never make their own excruciating compromises for peace, and leaders like Abbas will always be isolated. And without those compromises – in a Middle East departing further from the norms of human behaviour by the day – Israel will not take risks for peace. 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To: ggersh who wrote (55612)	6/23/2014 8:59:31 AM
From: Real Man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71479

LOL. Yes, a few indicators advise ST caution w/R PM breakout: 1. Gofo (gofo ZIRP ain't over 'til it's over!) 2. Stoch/RSI/whatever tech overbot 3. Seasonals (too early in the Summer for a nice round bottom) 4. Jesse's sandbox lines? Why higher? Potentially, India tariffs abolished. I think this is expected by July, or before Indian festival/wedding/whatever season begins. However, me wonders if record Chinese demand was related to Indian tariff (smuggling). This is the possible reason the pm market could continue higher right now despite Seasonals and gofo.