Posted on 05/21/2009 8:58:20 AM PDT by TaraP
The Palestinian Authority (PA) has been assured that US President Barack Obama's new peace plan includes a Palestinian state with its capital in Jerusalem.
PA officials told the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot that the US intends to stand by its policy that East Jerusalem should be the Palestinian capital. Obama is expected to roll out the peace plan in Cairo on 4 June.
The plan also calls for Israel to freeze settlement activity, and a clear timetable for the establishment of a Palestinian state, negotiated under the framework of the Arab Peace Initiative. The newspaper said the US is expected to ask Arab states also to set a timeline for establishing normalized diplomatic ties with Israel.
Meanwhile US Senators sent a letter to Obama asking him to take into account "risks [Israel will] face in any peace agreement."
The letter, signed by 76 US senators, or more than three quarters of the upper chamber of the congress, urged Obama to “continue to insist on the absolute Palestinian commitment to ending terrorist violence and to building the institutions necessary for a viable Palestinian state living side-by-side, in peace with the Jewish state of Israel,” according to Yediot.
A similar letter is reported to have garnered 200 signatures in the House of Representatives.
On his two-day visit to Washington, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did face demands to halt construction of settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Democratic Senator John Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee raised the settlement issue saying, "I emphasized to the prime minister the importance of moving forward, especially in respect to the settlement issue," according to Reuters.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, also told reporters that, while hosting Netanyahu for dinner on Monday night, she stressed Obama’s view that "he wants to see a stop to the settlements."
Previous attempts, throughout the 17-year-old peace process, to compel Israel to halt settlements have failed. The charter of Netayahu’s Likud Party dictates that Israel refuse to give up any territory in its control.
Ping!
ping?
So the o bum owns the place, eh?
MORE HERE...
PA Peace Plan: Iran to Share Rule over Temple Mount
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
(IsraelNN.com)
Israel may find Iran as one of the administrators of the Temple Mount, according to a new Palestinian Authority plan reported Thursday by the Hebrew-language newspaper Haaretz.
PA sources said giving up claims to the Temple Mount and handing over control to the 57-member Saudi-based Islamic Conference Organization is conditional on Israel’s agreeing to a final status agreement.
Iran, which is classified as Persian and not an Arab country, is part of the Islamic group.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has opposed agreeing to a new PA state without knowing ahead of time what it would entail.
The PA recently has escalated its propaganda campaign that disassociates the holy site from any connection with Judaism and claims it is solely a Muslim site.
A group of Arabs demonstrated at Shechem Gate in the Old City Thursday morning, shouting anti-Israeli slogans as Jews began celebrating Jerusalem Reunification Day.
Sovereignty over the Temple Mount, based in Jerusalem, has been one of the foundations for a new Arab country that the PA wants following the proposed expulsion of more than half a million Jews from Judea and Samaria, as well as from Jerusalem neighborhoods that were established after the 1967 Six-Day War.
The PA’s official website as far back as 2005 rejected the Jewish connection with the Western Wall (Kotel), the remains of the wall that surrounded the Holy Temple area. Muslim legend claims that Mohammed tied his horse to the wall before ascending to heaven, even though the city of Jerusalem is not even mentioned in the Koran.
Writer Daniel Pipes several years offered one million dollars to anyone who can find the name “Jerusalem” explicitly written in the Koran.
The Israeli government initially ignored the PA propaganda campaign, but Rabbi Chaim Richman, director of the International Department of the of the Temple Institute in Jerusalem, warned in 2005 that the PA claims have “far reaching implications” for Israel.
Rabbi Richman said that the PA’s denial of the Jewish Temple’s existence “is part of a campaign to totally eradicate, erase, and destroy all Jewish connection to the Temple Mount, Jerusalem and the land of Israel.”
yikes! If this is true, well, yikes!
This will never happen. Zero needs to learn that Israel isn’t Chrysler.
EXACTLY!
FROM JOEL ROSENBERG’S BLOG
OBAMA TO SAY IT IS TIME TO DIVIDE JERUSALEM: No, Mr. President, it’s not.
I’m horrified by reports this morning that in his June 4th speech in Cairo, President Obama will say it is time to divide Jerusalem and make the holy city the capital of a Palestinian state.
No, Mr. President, it is not.
http://flashtrafficblog.wordpress.com/2009/05/20/obama-to-say-it-is-time-to-divide-jerusalem-no-mr-president-its-not-it-is-time-to-build-a-global-alliance-of-1-million-true-friends-of-israel/
This idiot is going to start a world war.
Obama’s promises are the hope of fools..
Lord Zero is just making straight the way for the Anti-Christ. A modern day Anti-John the Baptist if you will.
Obama has no authority to make such promises. Who does he think Israel is, Chrysler?
Obama’s supposed “authority” comes directly from the 57 Islamic States that he has pledged his submission to via the salaam bow to the King of Saudi Arabia (aka Islam’s keeper of the Holy Places).
Obama is a Muslim, pure and simple. He has no loyalty to ANYTHING but his Islamic agenda of oppression, and his messiah complex re-enforced by his buddy Farrakhan who literally called him “the messiah”.
They called us all crazy during the campaign, but we have eyes to see and ears to hear, and he’s not fooling many of us... And the number supporting him is decreasing everyday, with every new proposed law, initiative, etc...
There is a war coming, but the US as a nation is going to be on the “wrong side”. I will NEVER give up my support nor defense of Israel, even if “my” government will.
The thing is Obama doesn’t CARE that there will be a war. According to Muslim dictates they believe they must CREATE the destruction and evil necessary to “raise” the 12th Imam who is supposedly waiting in some well (who many believe is the probably Anti-Christ, or the False Prophet who will perform fake “miracles” to fool the people...).
HIDEOUS
TREASON AGAINST THE USA IN TERMS OF AGAINST OUR BEST INTERESTS . . .
AND
REBELLION AGAINST GOD ALMIGHTY.
We’ll see how that works out for OThuga.
and . . . sadly, the rest of millions affected by his actions in such matters.
INDEED.
The pontus speaks and only fools listen.
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