Posted on 08/20/2007 1:04:53 PM PDT by Esther Ruth
6 Elul 5767, August 20, '07
Published: 08/20/07, 9:03 AM
Olmert, Arabs Negotiating Over Temple Mount
by Gil Ronen
(IsraelNN.com) Arab representatives who are negotiating an agreement with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office have made it clear that they will not accept any final peace deal with Israel unless the Jewish State forfeits the Temple Mount, Judaism's holiest site.
According to a report in the daily newspaper Yediot Acharonot, Olmert is willing to discuss joint Israeli-Arab control over the Temple Mount compound.
A chief Arab negotiator told WorldNetDaily's Aaron Klein that "there can be no agreement with Israel unless we get complete sovereignty of the Mount. Once Palestinian control over the [Temple Mount] is fixed, then we will make assurances for Jewish visits to the site."
The chief negotiator said aides from Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah organization have been working out the details of a "final status" agreement, which they intend to present in November at a U.S.-sponsored international summit on the Middle East. 'Once Palestinian control over the [Temple Mount] is fixed, then we will make assurances for Jewish visits'
Besides the Temple Mount, other issues on the table reportedly include the division of united Jerusalem and permanent borders between Israel and the PA.
With a year and a half left in office, US President George Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have been urging Abbas and Olmert to meet regularly in the hope of creating a dynamic that will lead to a breakthrough at November's conference.
Asked whether Olmert is willing to forfeit the Temple Mount in an agreement with the Palestinians, David Baker, a spokesman for the prime minister, had no comment.
'Secret' plan would give Judea and Samaria to Arabs
Last week saw the publication of reports that newly-installed President Shimon Peres has quietly drafted a plan for the Jewish State to evacuate and transfer to the PA nearly the entire area of Judea and Samaria, along with several Arab-Israeli cities located within pre-1967 Israel.
Peres presented his initiative to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and to top Abbas aides soon after he took office as President last month.
Olmert is said to be considering the plan and he "agrees with much of its contents," diplomatic sources said.
President Peres, Israel's most veteran politician, has a long history of covert deal-making. His arch-rival in the Labor party, former Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin, famously called Peres "an indefatigable subversive" in his autobiography. Peres received the Nobel Prize for a deal he and others worked out with arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat in 1993 – the Oslo Accords – which led to the establishment of the Palestinian Authority and an ongoing terror war in which thousands of Israelis, including a high proportion of women and children, have been killed or maimed.
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Israel To Give Up Temple Mount?
WorldNetDaily ^ | August 17, 2007 | Aaron Klein
Posted on 08/17/2007 8:32:53 AM CDT by Fennie
JERUSALEM — Palestinian negotiators drafting an agreement behind the scenes with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s office have made clear they will not accept any final peace deal with Israel unless the Jewish state forfeits the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site, WND has learned. According to a report in Israel’s Yediot Aharonot daily yesterday, Olmert is willing to discuss joint Israeli-Palestinian control over the Temple Mount complex. The report didn’t state the positions of the Palestinian side on the issue. A chief Palestinian negotiator, speaking to WND on condition his name be withheld, said yesterday, “there can be no agreement with Israel unless we get complete sovereignty of the Mount. Once Palestinian control over the [Temple Mount] is fixed, then we will make assurances for Jewish visits to the site.” The chief negotiator said aides from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas Fatah organization have been hammering out the parameters of a final status agreement for presentation in November at a U.S.-backed international summit regarding the Middle East...
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Why doesn’t Olmert just cut to the chase and order all jews out of Isreal.
This has been attempted before. The real question is if Olmert will act unilaterally to circumvent the guaranteed protest in the Knesset. IMHO, he will try.
The Israeli’s need to blow the Al-Aqsa mosque to kingdom come. They should give a counter offer, they’ll trade the Temple Mount for Mecca.
Olmert will probably give it away. What a weak fool. When will the Israeli people throw this bum out of office?
Balian should have leveled that damn pile os stones when he could have.
Warning! This is a high-volume ping list.
Have you ever seen nekkid PETA bimbos protesting the Muslim Eid El Adha sheep slaughters?
Will never come to fruition. Israel may do some crazy things but no way will it ever give Muslims complete sovereignty and control of the Temple Mount
Rabin/Peres came awfully close. I put nothing past Olmert.
If they have no claim to the temple mount, they have no claim to any of Israel.
“The Israeli’s need to blow the Al-Aqsa mosque to kingdom come.”
There’s a really big fault line under the Temple Mount.
All it would take is one really nice big shake.
Yeah, let's send George Clooney to Saudi Arabia and he can throw red paint on them.
I pray that G*d razes that abomination from the face of the earth post-haste.
LOOK UP!
bump .... Olmert Bush and Rice better remember that bad things happen to people that sell Israel out .... historical observation.
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