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| Former PLO negotiator: Israel 'no partner' |
| 2011-05-22 |
[Al Jazeera] A former Paleostinian peace negotiator has told Al Jizz that Binyamin Netanyahu's government is "no partner for peace", after the Israeli prime minister rejected US president Barack B.O.Obama's call for a Middle Eastern settlement based on the 1967 borders. Paleostinian leaders have welcomed Obama's call, in a keynote speech on Thursday, for a peace deal "based on the 1967 lines, with mutually agreed swaps". But Netanyahu, visiting the White House on Friday, said Israel could not return to those borders because they were "indefensible". Saeb Erekat ...negotiated the Oslo Accords with Israel. He has been chief Paleostinian negotiator since 1995. He is currently negotiating with Israel to establish a de jure Paleostinian state... , the Paleostine Liberation Organisation's former chief negotiator, told Al Jizz: "I don't think we have partner in Israel today to proceed along the two-state solution line. "Let's give this option the chance, let's give president Obama the chance, let's give Israelis the chance, let's give the international community the chance to have prime minister Netanyahu utter 'two states on 1967 lines' - and if he fails to do that we have many other options that we will go about." Paleostinian officials said on Saturday they would press ahead with seeking recognition for Paleostinian statehood at the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... in September. "Of course we will go to the United Nations," Nabil Shaath, an aide to Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... , told the Rooters news agency. "Especially after Netanyahu used the old pretext that he needs 'defensible borders' to keep stealing our land, control the Jordan Valley and create demographic facts on the ground." Abu Rdainah, Abbas' front man, said Paleostinians preferred to pursue peace with Israel rather look to the United Nations. "Our position is to give an opportunity, until September, for going back to the negotiating table based on a halt to settlement activity," he said. "It would be our first choice." But the statehood vote would have first to be approved in the Security Council, where the United States - which insists on a negotiated peace accord - has a veto. Shaath urged President B.O. to join other countries in endorsing a Paleostinian state taking in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. Another Paleostinian official, Nabil Abu Rdainah, said the drive to win statehood status unilaterally could be forestalled, should Israel accept the demand to extend a freeze on its settlement on occupied land so that negotiations can resume. But no such rapprochement looked imminent after the Israeli prime minister, differed with Obama on the issue. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Yes, but seriously, who wants to become a Rastazoroastrian, even if it is the one true faith? |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-05-22 09:38 |
| #1 So hard to get along.. There is only one universal religion. Can´t be very difficult to understand. http://growing-rich.blogspot.com |
| Posted by: Yogi 2011-05-22 08:21 |