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| Palestinian PM calls for unity to build a state | |
| 2009-06-23 | |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad on Monday called on Palestinians to unite for the creation of their own state in two years, without waiting for an end to the Israeli occupation. "I urge the Palestinian people to rally around a program aimed at creating a state... so that a Palestinian state becomes a reality by the end of next year or within two years at most," he said in a speech at al-Quds university in Abu Dis, a West Bank suburb of Jerusalem. He called for "all means" to be mobilized to ensure that goal is achieved "as this would place the entire world before its responsibility to end the occupation and allow our people to live in freedom in their homeland and to exercise their right to self-determination." Fayyad, a technocrat with no significant political base of his own, heads a newly aligned cabinet with more ministers from the dominant Fatah faction of President Mahmoud Abbas, whose Islamist Hamas rivals refuse to recognize the prime minister.
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 If there was any real interest in a Palestinian state there would have been one in 1948... or 1967... or 1973... or 1993... But some folks just have other priorities. (Cue "never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity"). |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2009-06-23 06:26 |
| #1 Only People can build states, Salam. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-06-23 01:07 |