| Submit your comments on this article |
| Israel-Palestine-Jordan |
| Islamic Jihad condemns rumored "second Geneva accord" |
| 2007-11-07 |
| Ma'an – Islamic Jihad condemned rumors that Israeli and Palestinian negotiators are working on a second extra-governmental peace agreement along the lines of the 2003 Geneva Accord on Tuesday. "Insistence on holding secret or public meetings with the Israelis is considered a bypass of the Palestinian rights, specifically in light of the escalating destruction and siege programs against all aspects of life," said Islamic Jihad leader Khalid Al-Batsh. He added, "Attempts to reproduce the so-called Geneva Document despite present circumstances assures that those who stand behind the document are suspicious as the Palestinian people and their leadership, namely, late president Yasser Arafat had strongly rejected that document in the past." Al-Batsh called on the Palestinians shun such documents as "a vicious circle leading to nowhere." The unofficial Geneva Accord was hammered out by Israeli and Palestinian negotiators, including left-wing Israeli leader Yossi Beilin and former Palestinian head negotiator Yasser Abed Rabbo. |
| Posted by:Fred |