[DAWN] Ideas proposed by US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a
lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
to Paleostinian president the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
cannot "serve as the basis for a framework accord" with Israel, a Paleostinian official said Friday.
"The ideas proposed cannot be accepted by the Paleostinian side as the basis for a framework accord between the Paleostinians and Israel as they do not take into account the legitimate rights of the Paleostinian people," he told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
, after Abbas and Kerry met in Gay Paree this week.
"The Paleostinian position explained to Mr Kerry is that the proposed ideas, particularly the insistences on recognition of the state of Israel as the Jewish nation-state, are unacceptable," the official said.
Proposals for the future of Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, which the Paleostinians claim as the capital of the state, are "vague", the official added.
Abbas, the official said, "restated the Paleostinian position and his vision of a solution based on United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
resolutions and the positions of the Paleostinian leadership and the Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
."
The US State Department described the Gay Paree meetings on Wednesday and Thursday as "constructive", and said Kerry and Abbas had agreed to stay in touch in the coming weeks.
Kerry, who pushed the Israelis and Paleostinians back to the negotiating table after a three-year gap, has no immediate plans to travel back to Israel or the West Bank after making 11 trips during his first year in office.
But he is likely to meet early next month in Washington with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the sidelines of an annual conference organised by a powerful American-Israeli lobbying group.