What MUSLIMS LABEL AS ‘Occupation,’
Before 2015 shall TEMPORARILY be Over,
FALSE PEACE Will Come Across Middle East,
Then the Beast drives from Dan to Beersheba!
Ob am
a now trying to bring moderates on Board,
As Moderate Arab Nations Fear Iranian Domination,
They sign their own death certificates by a Peace Plan!
Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan Leaders will be Replaced,
When Syrian & Iranian led Islamic attack goes south in Israel!
The Extremists are fanatically determined to end the ‘Occupation,’
And the only kind of peace plan they will accept must be a False One,
Which they plan to treacherously betray, so as
to catch Israel off Guard!
Excerpt 2 shows fanatical dreams of the fanatical terror nations and Groups!
May 17, 2009
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Begin Excerpt 1 from Jerusalem Post
PM seeks to upgrade diplomatic role of moderate Arab states
May. 7, 2009 – Updated May 15
HERB KEINON and AP , THE JERUSALEM POST
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu traveled to Egypt on Monday for his first trip abroad since taking office, a symbolic move government officials say is designed to signal the importance he places on relations with Cairo and moderates in the Arab world.
That Netanyahu is visiting Egypt even before he goes to the US, where he will travel on May 17, shows how important he feels the ties with Egypt are, one government official said. Egyptian-Israeli relations were strained earlier in the year by the appointment of Avigdor Lieberman as foreign minister.
The official said the meet ing with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak
in Sharm e-Sheikh would also show the importance Israel attached to the involvement of moderate Arab countries in the peace process, as well as in containing Iran and its local proxies Hizbullah and Hamas.
Israel would like to see Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia play a greater role in the peace process, as well as in pushing back against Iranian efforts to make further inroads in the region, the official said.
Netanyahu believes that while the Iranian threat is a very serious challenge, it also provides an opportunity because Iran does not just threaten Israel, it is also a direct threat to the region, according to the official. As such, the Iranian threat has created the possibility of enhanced cooperation and dialogue between Israel and its neighbors, “something that ultimately could be very significant in building peace.”
National Security Council head Uzi Arad was reportedly in Egypt earlier in the week preparing for the upcoming meeting.
Meanwhile, neither the Prime Minister’s Office nor the Foreign Ministry had any comment Wednesday on reports in the London-based pan-Arab daily Al-Quds al-Arabi that Arab leaders were formulating a new peace offer, more detailed than the original Arab initiative from 2002, that would include a proposal for resolving the two thorniest final-status issues: Jerusalem and the refugee problem.
According to the report, which relied on Palestinian sources, the new initiative was being led by Jordan’s King Abdullah II at the behest of US President Barack Obama.
The offer would reportedly call for the establishment of a demilitarized Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital and for the Old City to be designated as an “international zone.” The question of borders would be resolved through land swaps.
The report said that some of the descendants of Palestinian refugees from the War of Independence in 1947-49 would be allowed to move to the Palestinian state, while others would be naturalized in their countries of residence throughout the Arab world.
According to the report, the idea of a revised Arab peace plan emerged during Abdullah’s meeting with Obama in Washington last month. The US president reportedly asked the Jordanian monarch to formulate a new offer that would elucidate some of the issues that were vague in the original peace initiative. Immediately upon returning to Amman, Abdullah took off for Riyadh to begin hammering out the new plan with his Saudi counterpart.
According to the paper, Abdullah met with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday and filled him in on the details.
On Monday, he did the same with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem.
Palestinian sources quoted in the report said Obama had requested that the plan outline a “timetable for normalization and the establishment of diplomatic ties between Israel and the Arab world, which will encourage Israel to employ the necessary means in order to create a demilitarized Palestinian state.”
The revised initiative, the sources said, “will allow the Israeli flag to billow in all the capitals of the Arab world, while the Palestinian flag will be raised in the Arab neighborhoods of east Jerusalem, which will be the capital of the Palestinian state.”
The UN banner will fly over the holy sites of Jerusalem’s Old City, the sources were quoted as saying.
The Palestinian sources said the new initiative conceded that an influx of refugees and their descendants into Israel was broadly perceived as an existential threat to the Jewish state. The refugees “cannot return to the occupied Palestinian territories of 1948,” they said, “for, according to the Americans’ point of view, this would pose a danger to Israel’s future.”
Abdullah, meanwhile, said in Berlin on Wednesday that Israel, Syria, Lebanon and other Arab nations would sit down together to try to resolve the Middle East conflict under a new “combined approach” currently under discussion with the US.
“What we are discussing today is a combined approach of bringing together Arabs, Europeans and the United States as a team to create the circumstances over the next several months that allow Israelis and Palestinians to sit at the table, but also with Lebanese, Syrians and Arab nations,” Abdullah told a news conference.
“So it is a packaged effort that we are going to work on… and I would imagine that the plan will be more articulated by the president of the United States after Prime Minister Netanyahu’s visit to Washington,” he added.
Netanyahu is expected to meet with Obama on May 18, and by the end of the month Obama is also expected to have met separately with Abbas and Mubarak.
Meanwhile, Netanyahu – following a meeting Wednesday night with Quartet envoy Tony Blair – announced the establishment of a ministerial committee, that he will head, to develop the Palestinian economy and improve the quality of life in the PA.
The committee will be made up of Defense Minister Ehud Barak, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz, and Silvan Shalom, the minister for regional development and development of the Negev and Galilee.
A statement put out by Netanyahu following the Blair meeting said he will ask Shalom to start a number of economic projects in the near future in Jenin, Jericho and a baptismal site on the Jordan River.
Blair also said on Wednesday that the Obama administration and international negotiators were drafting a new strategy for Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and expected to unveil it within six weeks.
He did not provide any further details.
At a meeting later in the day with EU ambassadors in Israel, Blair said the Quartet was not going to unveil any new plan, but was waiting to see how to move the diplomatic process forward after Obama’s meetings with the Middle East leaders later this month.
The Quartet is scheduled to hold its next meeting in June, after Obama’s meetings with Netanyahu, Mubarak and Abbas, although representatives of the Quartet may meet on the sidelines of a discussion scheduled for Monday in the UN Security Council.
Arab diplomats, meanwhile, say the Obama administration is pressing them to amend their 2002 peace initiative to make it more acceptable to Israel. The plan – first proposed by Saudi Arabia – called for a complete withdrawal to the pre-1967 lines, including in east Jerusalem and on the Golan Heights, and a return of Palestinian refugees.
Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa, who traditionally takes a very hard line on Israel, rejected that suggestion.
“There is no amendment to this initiative. We have received nothing from the other side… no initiative, no response and no proper talking about peace, so why should we change or amend, and for what reason?” he said.
Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hossam Zaki also denied the reports, telling The Jerusalem Post, “I don’t know where this idea came from.
As far as Egypt is concerned, the idea does not exist and is not under consideration.”
In a related development, Lieberman arrived in Prague on Wednesday for talks with his outgoing Czech counterpart, Karel Schwarzenberg, whose country presides over the European Union until June 30.
Lieberman, on his first foreign tour since taking office, arrived in the Czech Republic from Italy and France, and is scheduled to go to Berlin on Thursday, before returning home.
EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, with whom Lieberman also met on Wednesday, said the European Union would only make a decision on a frozen plan to upgrade ties with Israel when Jerusalem completed its review regarding peace negotiations with the Palestinians.
During talks with Lieberman in Prague, Solana said that “not much has advanced” and that Israel was well aware of the EU’s stance, which calls for a two-state solution.
“They are in the process of review,” he told reporters. “They have to see how they can make something that is compatible with that.”
Brenda Gazzar contributed to this report from Cairo.
Begin Excerpt from Sacramento Bee via Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs/Daily Alert
Blair: New Mideast peace plan unveiled in weeks
Associated Press Writer
Published Tuesday, May. 05, 2009
JERUSALEM — The Obama administration and international negotiators are drafting a new strategy for Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and expect to unveil it within six weeks, international Mideast envoy Tony Blair said.
The plan – being devised by the U.S. administration but with input from others – should offer renewed hope, the former British prime minister told Palestinian reporters.
“We’re about to get a new framework,” Blair said late Tuesday. “I can only speculate right now about what that framework is going to be. The reason I say people should be more hopeful, is that this is a framework that is being worked on at the highest level in the American administration, (and) in the rest of the international community.”
The Obama administration has promised to work for the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel.
It has portrayed a two-state solution as the only way to solve the Mideast conflict and defined it as a U.S. national interest.
President Barack Obama is holding separate meetings at the White House this month with the Israeli, Palestinian and Egyptian leaders to hear their views.
Once those meetings are over, the Quartet is to convene in Washington to discuss and present the new strategy, Blair said.
The Quartet includes the U.S., the United Nations, the European Union and Russia. “I think that within the next five to six weeks, you will have a very clear picture of what the plan is,” Blair said.
He gave no details on what changes might be in store.
The last round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, which had aimed for an agreement on Palestinian independence in 2008, ended without tangible results last year.
In violence late Wednesday, Israeli forces fatally shot a Palestinian in the volatile West Bank city of Hebron, the military said. Israeli troops control part of Hebron where Jewish settlers live.
The Palestinian approached troops guarding a holy site and ignored orders to halt, the military said. The troops suspected he was planning an attack.
Israel’s new hardline leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, has yet to commit to a two- state solution, and supports the continued expansion of Israeli settlements in areas the Palestinians seek for their
state.
The Palestinians are plagued by crippling internal division, with Gaza run by Hamas militants and the West Bank by U.S.-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Repeated efforts to forge a Palestinian unity deal, seen as a prerequisite for meaningful peace talks, have failed.
In Gaza, the Hamas government appointed a hardline lawmaker as its new interior minister. The appointment of Fathi Hamad puts him in charge of Hamas’ security forces. Hamad, in his mid-40s, is the founder of Hamas’ TV, radio and satellite channels, which are known for their inflammatory broadcasts against Israel and Abbas.
He succeeds Said Siyam, a hardliner who was killed in Israel’s military offensive in Gaza in January. “We will continue his path of development and construction,” Hamad said late Tuesday.
The international community has refused to deal with the Islamic militant group, saying Hamas must first renounce violence and recognize Israel’s right to exist. That has failed to persuade the group to soften its anti-Israel stance or push the Palestinian rivals to reconcile.
Also Wednesday, Israeli planes bombed smuggling tunnels under the Gaza-Egypt border, the Israeli military and Palestinian security services said. Four people were wounded.
The military said the planes hit three tunnels. Israel frequently hits the tunnels to try to stop Hamas arms smuggling.
Gaza militants fired six mortar shells at Israel on Wednesday, the military said. No one was hurt.
Begin Excerpt 2 from YNet News
Islamic Movement: Zionist sun will set
Movement’s vice-chairman tells Nakba Day rally in Kfar Kana ‘wars and conflicts are not won with F-16 planes and Merkava tanks’; head of Arab Monitoring Committee: We’ll either live here in bliss or die as shahids like Gaza’s children
Sharon Roffe-Ofir
“The Zionist sun will set as soon as the sun of the Islamist state rises,” Sheikh Kamal Hatib, vice-chairman of the Islamic Movement in Israel’s northern branch, said Friday during an event marking the 61st anniversary of the Nakba – or the “catastrophe” of Israel’s inception and the subsequent displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.
Thousands of the Islamic Movement’s supporters gathered at a soccer stadium in the northern Arab-Israeli village of Kfar Kana to take part in the event, entitled “The right to return and the right to remain”.
“Wars and conflicts are not won with F-16 planes and Merkava tanks; they are won with human strength,” Hatib told the rally. “If there will be another Nakba in the future, it will not be our (Palestinian) nation that will suffer from it.”
Muhammad Zedan, chairman of the Higher Arab Monitoring Committee, said in his speech that “this is our land.
We will either live here in bliss or die as shahids (martyrs) on this land. This is what we’ve learned from the little children in Gaza who died as shahids.
“We will not leave this land, and anyone who thinks he can force us to leave – then he is dreaming,” Zedan said.
‘We will not accept monetary compensation’
Islamic Movement Chairman Sheikh Raed Salah expressed hope that next year the Palestinians will mark Nakba Day in “the capital of the Palestinian state – Jerusalem.”
“This year we celebrated during the ‘Jerusalem – capital of Arabic culture for 2009’ events, and we hope that next year we will be celebrating in Jerusalem, the capital of the Palestinian state; our capital,” Salah said.
“We are the ones who will remain on our land; it is the occupation that will soon disappear.”
In his speech, the Islamic Movement head leveled criticism at Pope Benedict XVI, saying that during the pontiff’s recent Mideast visit he should have “apologized to the Muslims for past remarks against the prophet Muhammad,” adding that the pope also failed to address the “Holocaust that was carried out by the Israeli army in Gaza.”
Sheikh Ikrima Sabri, former mufti of Jerusalem, told the rally “we cannot relinquish the right of return (of the Palestinian refuges), and no one can ask this of us. We will not accept monetary compensation. Without the Islamist connection to the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem the Palestinian people would have vanished years ago.”
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