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Posted on 03/14/2005 1:30:53 PM PST by Zivasmate
14/03/2005
Palestine Media Center – PMC
Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmad Qurei reiterated his rejection of unilateral approaches to solving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, urging peace camps on both sides to accelerate their efforts because “danger is greater than hope.”
“The hope of our people is fading away because of the Israeli policies,” Qurei said.
Qurei was speaking in a meeting held at the Palestine Media Center (PMC) on Sunday, chaired by Palestinian co-author of the Geneva Initiative Yaser Abed Rabbo and his Israeli counterpart Yossi Beilin and attended by representatives of the Palestinian and Israeli peace camps in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
The meeting, which focused on assessing the current political conditions and uniting the Palestinian and Israeli peace camps’ positions during the coming period, was attended by former high-ranking generals in the Israeli military and Knesset members and on the Palestinian side, writers, Parliament (PLC) members and members of civil society.
During the meeting, Qurei slammed unilateralism as “a kind of policy that will not bring peace to Palestinians and Israelis…[and] cannot guarantee permanent agreement for a future for our children.”
“The only agreement that can be guaranteed and protected by both peoples is an agreement that comes through negotiations. I’m afraid that with unilateralism, there will be no possibilities for peace on both sides,” Qurei told the Palestinian and Israeli leading peace activists.
PLO Executive Committee Member Yaser Abed Rabbo, who was the host of the meeting, also spoke of the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s unilateral disengagement plan, saying it should be carried out within the framework of the UN-adopted “roadmap” peace plan and implemented simultaneously alongside permanent status negotiations.
“The path to peace is not possible without Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, an Israeli-Palestinian partnership and without a cessation to all colony-expansion measures,” he emphasized.
Abed Rabbo reiterated that the most important goal to be achieved is “ending the [Israeli] occupation and the establishment of a Palestinian state in accordance with the 1967 borders, alongside the state of Israel.”
The co-author of the unofficial Geneva blueprint also stressed that the Palestinians have started implementing positive steps, especially with regard to security, while Israeli colonization continued unabated.
Abed Rabbo’s counterpart and Chairman of Yahad Party Yossi Beilin, for his part, spoke of finding “a common denominator” between Palestinian and Israeli sides to help reach an agreement.
Beilin further said that the role of the peace camps was to convince both societies that “any interim agreements will only deter the solution and prolong the crisis.”
“The idea now is to make Geneva move from having the support of the minority to the support of the majority,” he highlighted, reminding those present that one of the Geneva Initiative’s “fruits” is Sharon’s go-it-alone plan.
The Palestinian National Security Advisor Jibril Rajoub said that the Israeli “disengagement” should be carried out only after an agreement between the two sides is reached.
An overall consensus existed among Palestinians and Israelis in the meeting that the “disengagement plan” should be coordinated with the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) within the context of the “roadmap.”
Many of the Palestinian attendants expressed frustration at the issues that the Israeli peace camp should address throughout their activism, namely the Apartheid Wall, the continuous Israeli colonization of Palestinian land, and the ailing Palestinian economy.
“There is a need to embolden the Israeli peace camp to address such issues,” said Terry Bulata, a peace activist from occupied east Jerusalem.
Qurei had also addressed the issue of the Apartheid Wall, which he said “will not be accepted to demark the borders.”
However, he welcomed the evacuation of the illegal Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip, but emphasized that it should not be at the expense of more Israeli colonization in the West Bank, which is the case, he said, citing as an example the Israeli government’s plan to build 3000 more settlement homes in occupied Jerusalem.
The Palestinian premier also warned that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ government could be in danger should Israel not deliver on its promises and not implement the confidence-building measures that were agreed upon in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh summit meeting between Abbas and Sharon on February 8.
In addition to Qurei, Abed Rabbo and Rajoub the Palestinian side in the meeting was also represented by Abdel-Qader Al-Husseini, Azmi Al-Shu’aybi, Gaith Al-Omari, Ghassan El-Masri, Ibrahim Khaishi, Liana Bader, Nabil Qassis, Naser E’liwah, Nazmi Al-Jubeh, Reem Aboushi, Sa’ad Abdel-Hadi, Saji Khalil, Sam’an Khoury, Samih Shbeib, Samir Abdullah, Suheil Gadeon, Tayseer Arouri, Terry Bullata and Zouhair Manasrah.
From the Israeli side Beilin was joined by Yuli Tamir, Abu Vilan, Menachem Klein, Ron Pundik, Arie Arnon, Avraham Burg, Kolet Avital, Shaul Areili, Shlomo Brom, Ysraela Oron, Yossi Yona, Boaz Karni, Daniela Beilin, Daniel Levy, Dror Shternchuss and Gadi Baltianski.
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Reading this almost caused my head to blow up. You cannot negotiate with these people. I think maybe you just decide what is right to do and you do it and if they harm any Israelis make them pay more than in kind.
ISLAM's demands:
(1) first, Israel must cease to exist
(2) then, the US must submit to Islam and surrender all of their goods to an Islamic Theocracy
(3) finally, once Muslims have conquered the US, the remainder of the world must follow.
Such are the fair demands of the people of Allah.
I sware the people are just immature, childish, morons.
Just because you dig your feet in and REFUSE to participate in progress, DOES NOT automatically invalidate those that do.
It didn't work for the "white guys" in Africa and their elections... it didn't work for the Sunni in Iraq in theirs.
Grow the hell up... bunch of damn children.
You just absolutely cracked me up.Thanks for a good laugh.
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“The path to peace is not possible without Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, an Israeli-Palestinian partnership and without a cessation to all colony-expansion measures,” he emphasized.
Negotiations are paramount! Unilateralism cannot work! We must negotiate - we must compromise!! But, Israel must first agree to our demands!!!
Feh.
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"Hope is fading away because of Israeli policies"
You know, those darn Israelis won't all just walk into the sea. They insist on living.
Paleostinians- Most arrogant welfare bums on the entire planet.
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"citing as an example the Israeli government’s plan to build 3000 more settlement homes in occupied Jerusalem."
This of course is the real issue why peace will never work there. Jerusalem is an Israeli city, no matter what foolish claims the Palestinians make to the contrary. Israel is building settlements in it's own city and this guy is acting like its a problem.
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