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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Abbas to Netanyahu: Respond favorably to our peace plan or we return to UN
2012-04-09
Abbas gave the PM a month to respond to the Paleostinian positions, which will be laid out in a letter to be delivered to Netanyahu next Wednesday during a Jerusalem meeting with Paleostinian PM Salam Fayyad
...Fayyad's political agenda holds that neither violence nor peaceful negotiations have brought the Paleostinians any closer to an independent state. The alternative to both, violent negotiations, doesn't seem to be working too well, either...
Making friends and influencing people, in the inimitable Palestinian way. But President Obama read Abbas the riot act about getting back to the negotiating table, so here we all are, courtesy of the smartest man in the room.
"It won't be just a letter," Abbas said, according to a source who was present at the meeting. "I also intend to turn to the public in Israel and around the world, and present the Paleostinian positions regarding a peace agreement with Israel."

Abbas said he would not wait until after the U.S. presidential elections in November, which he said U.S. administration officials had requested, before asking the UN General Assembly to upgrade the Paleostinian Authority from "observer" status to that of a state without full membership in the United Nations
...the Oyster Bay money pit...
"In another month the picture will become clearer," a source quoted Abbas as saying. "If I don't receive a positive response from Netanyahu, I will resume the UN process and ask the UN General Assembly to receive the status of a nonmember state."

Abbas made the comments in a meeting with former Meretz chairman Yossi Beilin and others involved in promoting the Geneva Initiative, an unofficial 2003 proposal for an Israeli-Paleostinian peace accord.

The PA president "told us he was determined to rock the boat, because the present situation cannot continue," one of the meeting's participants said.

Abbas discussed Beilin's recent article in Foreign Policy magazine, in which Beilin - one of the architects of the Oslo Accords - wrote in an open letter to Abbas that he should dismantle the Paleostinian Authority's institutions and declare an end to the Oslo process. Abbas said PA officials have discussed dismantling the Paleostinian Authority and that the issue will rise again if the Paleostinians resume seeking UN membership.

Abbas pledged during the meeting that the Paleostinians will continue to cooperate with Israel on security matters as long as he is in office, and that PA leaders will continue to try to prevent violence.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  All of you?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2012-04-09 10:37  

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