'We would've had peace within 3 years'

**Chris** · November-14th-2009, 06:42 PM

'We would've had peace within 3 years'
By ASSOCIATED PRESS

Former US President Bill Clinton, whose energetic efforts to broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal collapsed, urged both sides Saturday to end their decades-old conflict, saying they cannot escape their common future. "In the last 14 years, not a single week has gone by that I did not think of [former prime minister] Yitzhak Rabin and miss him terribly," Clinton said. "Nor has a single week gone by in which I have not reaffirmed my conviction that had he not lost his life on that terrible November night, within three years we would have had a comprehensive agreement for peace in the Middle East."

Clinton spoke Saturday to a VIP gathering at the Yitzhak Rabin Center, a memorial to the former premier who was gunned down in November 1995 by Yigal Amir. "We are either going to hurt each other or we are going to help each other," he said of Israel and the Palestinians. "Divorce is not an option."

more..............Bill Clinton urges peace at ceremony for Rabin | Israel Palestine-Gaza Conflict | Jerusalem Post

**Chris** · November-14th-2009, 07:00 PM

Bill Clinton in Israel: There would be peace if Rabin were still alive
By The Associated Press

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said on Saturday that if former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin were still alive, a peace accord would have been reached between Israel and all of its neighbors. "In the last 14 years, not a single week has gone by that I did not think of Yitzhak Rabin and miss him terribly," Clinton told a VIP gathering at the Yitzhak Rabin Center in Tel Aviv. "Nor has a single week gone by in which I have not reaffirmed my conviction that had he not lost his life on that terrible November night, within three years we would have had a comprehensive agreement for peace in the Middle East." The center is a memorial to the former prime minister, who was gunned down in November 1995 by a Jewish assassin opposed to his peace moves.

more.............Bill Clinton in Israel: There would be peace if Rabin were still alive - Haaretz - Israel News

**Timna** · November-15th-2009, 02:06 PM

Yeah right Clinton! Peace in our time. Clinton is just another washed up, politically impotent, has-been politician, in the manner of Jimmy Carter. "If only"..... and woulda, coulda, shoulda....famous last words.

**mattfivefour** · November-15th-2009, 02:08 PM

Quite right, timna. One needs to deal with the reality of what is, not the dream of what might have been.

**Chris** · November-15th-2009, 04:08 PM

Originally Posted by Timna

Yeah right Clinton! Peace in our time. Clinton is just another washed up, politically impotent, has-been politician, in the manner of Jimmy Carter. "If only"..... and woulda, coulda, shoulda....famous last words.

**Navyblue** · November-15th-2009, 10:07 PM

Originally Posted by Chris

Bill Clinton in Israel: There would be peace if Rabin were still alive
By The Associated Press

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said on Saturday that if former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin were still alive, a peace accord would have been reached between Israel and all of its neighbors. "In the last 14 years, not a single week has gone by that I did not think of Yitzhak Rabin and miss him terribly," Clinton told a VIP gathering at the Yitzhak Rabin Center in Tel Aviv. "Nor has a single week gone by in which I have not reaffirmed my conviction that had he not lost his life on that terrible November night, within three years we would have had a comprehensive agreement for peace in the Middle East." The center is a memorial to the former prime minister, who was gunned down in November 1995 by a Jewish assassin opposed to his peace moves.

more.............Bill Clinton in Israel: There would be peace if Rabin were still alive - Haaretz - Israel News

Yessir, and if grasshoppers had shotguns,

they wouldn't worry about the hungry birds.

"In the last 14 years, not a single week has gone by that I did not think of Yitzhak Rabin and miss him terribly," Clinton told a VIP gathering ..."

Lord, Love a Duck, it that doesn't make Yitzhak Rabin roll over in his grave,

nothing will. Hmmm. nuff said.

In Messiah, His understanding of 'political' talk. Arley