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Middle East
Yasser rejects Zinni proposal
2002-04-11
  • Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has rejected proposals for a cease-fire made by U.S. special envoy Anthony Zinni, a senior Palestinian official said in Cairo Thursday. Arafat rejected the proposals submitted to him in his besieged and battered headquarters in Ramallah on the West Bank, Nabil Shaath told reporters.

    Shaath, who is Minister for Planning and International Cooperation in the Palestinian Authority, said Zinni's proposals gave Israel the right, if it felt threatened, to re-occupy Palestinian territory and to strike at Palestinian security headquarters and at Arafat's headquarters. In the proposal, Israel alone was given the right to define and anticipate a potential danger, he said. Shaath noted that Zinni's proposals, unlike the plan produced last year by CIA director George Tenet, did not include a timetable for Israel's withdrawal from Palestinian territories. It also gave Israel the right to ask the Palestinian Authority to arrest whomever it wants.
    Wonder if that's an accurate description of the proposal? It leaves out the part about the IDF being allowed to beat Yasser with a stick on demand, but otherwise seems pretty stringent. I wouldn't think he'd expect to have it agreed to...
    • Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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