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Qurei calls for action on barrier | ||
2004-02-09 | ||
Surprise! Surprise! Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei has called for an urgent international meeting to discuss the barrier Israel is building in the West Bank. Speaking in Ireland at the start of a European tour, he urged the "quartet" of peace sponsors - the EU, UN, US and Russia - to meet as soon as possible. Mr Qurei said the barrier threatened a key aim of the peace "roadmap" - to create a separate Palestinian state.
"It is time for the quartet to move," Qurei, you had your chance. You blew it. No one gives a sh*t about hysterical, homicidal, splodydopes anymore. Get over it, Mr Qurei told reporters at a news conference in Dublin, after talks with Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern, whose country currently holds the presidency of the European Union. Mr Qurei urged the four to make a "very strong intervention, very serious action and immediately to stop it".
"Unequivocal statement" Oh! my aching sides Petition hearing On Monday, the two Israeli human rights groups - Hamoked and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel - presented their cases against the Israeli barrier. "There’s no doubting that Israel has the right to defend itself and build a barrier... but it is another thing to build it inside the occupied territories," Hamoked’s lawyer Avner Pinchuk said. Israeli Government lawyer Michael Blass replied that the challenges to the barrier were too general. Mr Blass also said the government was considering altering the route of the barrier. Israeli officials had said a day earlier that the route could be shortened by about 100 km (62 miles), and plans to loop it around Jewish settlements are expected to be dropped. The government is also reportedly considering painting sections of the barrier to make it less ugly. A three-judge panel spent about two hours listening to arguments. They are expected to rule in the next few days, according to justice ministry sources cited by the AFP news agency. If the court rules in favour of the petition, correspondents say a lengthy legal process could follow. | ||
Posted by:tipper |
#2 the ignorance of other comments on this sight astounds me... qurei will provide the most results because he is one of the few willing to make an honest effort...he had ties to the east before the fall and he has always maintained ties to the west including - and here'e the "shocker"...some of the most educated Jews in the US he is a "worldly" man, a peacemaker |
Posted by: Anonymous 2004-2-26 4:33:36 PM |
#1 the ignorance of other comments on this sight astounds me... qurei will provide the most results because he is one of the few willing to make an honest effort...he had ties to the east before the fall and he has always maintained ties to the west including - and here'e the "shocker"...some of the most educated Jews in the US he is a "worldly" man, a peacemaker |
Posted by: Anonymous 2004-2-26 4:32:20 PM |