Pre-Tribulation World Mayhem in Many Things of Concern to Man
Number 5
IF Palestinians AND Israelis Accept Quartet Proposal For Peace Talks
And Negotiate through December 2012 Without Reaching Agreement
Middle East War is likely to begin at a point in time twixt 2013 & 2015
September 30, 2011
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
The Palestinians are now beginning to consider the Quartet Peace Plan offered at the UN, where they said they would not. Israel’s PM Netanyahu at the UN looked upon the Quartet Plan favorably. There is a slight chance Abbas and Netanyahu might agree to continue negotiations through next year (2012). If they don’t reach an agreement, that makes it very likely a Middle East war between Israel and Islam will begin at some point in time between 2013 and 2015.
The Following Excerpt from France 24 International News gives the details of the Quartet Peace Plan offer to Palestinians and Israelis at the United Nations.
Begin Current Excerpt from France 23 International News
Palestinians ‘encouraged’ by Quartet peace proposal
September 29, 2011
Palestinians welcomed a proposal to renew peace talks with Israel as “encouraging” on Thursday, nearly a week after international mediators known as the Quartet called for
the two sides to meet within a month to discuss security and border issues.
By News Wires (text)
AFP – A proposal for new peace talks announced by the international peacemaking Quartet last week contains “encouraging elements,” a senior Palestinian official said on Thursday.
Speaking after a meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s executive committee, PLO secretary general Yasser Abed Rabbo said the proposal contained positive language.
“The Quartet statement contains encouraging elements and we call on Israel to announce its commitment to the principles and points of reference it identifies,” he told reporters.
He said the Palestinians interpreted the language of the Quartet’s call for new talks, which referenced the peace plan known as the Road Map, as a demand for Israel to halt construction of settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem.
“We consider the Quartet’s reference to the obligations of the Palestinian and Israeli sides under the Road Map and the call to avoid provocative acts as a clear call for a definitive halt to settlement activity in all its forms, which is an encouraging sign,” he said.
The Quartet, composed of the United States, United Nations, European Union and Russia, announced their bid to renew peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians on Friday.
It came shortly after the Palestinians submitted their bid to join the United Nations as a member state.
The proposal calls for talks to begin within a month, for both sides to produce concrete ideas on security and borders within three months, and for a final deal to be reached before the end of 2012.
It says talks should be based on previous Security Council resolutions, the Road Map and the Arab peace initiative, and a speech given by US President Barack Obama in May.
Obama’s speech called for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations to use the lines that existed before the 1967 Six Day War as a basis for deciding future borders.
Abed Rabbo praised the Quartet for laying out the timetable and referencing both previous peace proposals and Obama’s speech, but he stopped short of saying the Palestinians had explicitly accepted the call for new negotiations.
And he reiterated that the Palestinians will not hold peace talks unless Israel halts settlement construction and agrees to a clear framework for the negotiations.
So far, the Quartet’s proposal has been cautiously received, with the Palestinians repeating calls for a settlement freeze and clear parameters and Israel saying only that it is studying the issue.
Abed Rabbo’s comments suggested the Palestinians plan to keep their position ambiguous for now, as Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas consults officials in Ramallah and seeks opinions from the Arab world.
In the meantime,
the Palestinians are also trying to boost support for their historic bid to win recognition as a state member of the United Nations.
Earlier on Thursday, Palestinian foreign minister Riyad al-Malki said eight members of the Security Council had pledged to approve
the bid, one shy of the nine votes needed to advance it
to the General Assembly.
Even if the nine votes are secured, the United States has pledged to veto the request, but the Palestinians hope to secure a diplomatic victory by winning a majority in the council.
The Palestinians are planning a diplomatic offensive, reaching out to council members Bosnia, Portugal and Colombia, which are currently undecided on the vote or have suggested they will abstain, Malki said.
End Current Excerpt from France 23 International News
A BLOG QUOTE FROM PRE-TRIBULATION WORLD MAYHEM IN MANY THINGS OF CONCERN TO MAN – NUMBER 2, SEPTEMBER 27, 2011
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Pre-Tribulation World Mayhem in Many Things of Concern to Man –
Number 2
September 27, 2011
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
1. CONCERN ABOUT MIDDLE EAST PEACE INITIATION AND WAR
If both Palestinians and Israelis accept the Quartet’s new peace negotiation plan, and cannot reach a peace agreement by December 2012, then it seems very likely that a Middle East war will begin at some point in time between 2013 and 2015.
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Begin Current Excerpt from THE JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Palestinians: Quartet proposal has ‘encouraging elements’
By JPOST.COM STAFF
NOVEMBER 29, 2011 17:37
After PLO executive committee meeting, official Abed Rabbo says proposal calling for resumption of peace talks contained “positive language”; calls on Israel to announce commitment to principles it identifies.
The Quartet’s proposal for restarting peace negotiations contains “encouraging elements,” a senior Palestinian Authority official said on Thursday.
PLO Secretary- General Yasser Abed Rabbo said after a meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s executive committee that the proposal contained positive language.
He told reporters that the Quartet statement contains encouraging elements. “We call on Israel to announce its commitment to the principles and points of reference it identifies,” he said.
“We consider the Quartet’s reference to the obligations of the Palestinian and Israeli sides under the Road Map and the call to avoid provocative acts as a clear call for a definitive halt to settlement activity in all its forms, which is an encouraging sign,” he added.
On Tuesday evening, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu convened the inner cabinet of eight ministers to discuss the Quartet’s proposal. After a five-hour long meeting the ministers said that they supported the proposal but did not come to an official conclusion that it would be approved.
Netanyahu said over the weekend in New York that he viewed the Quartet proposal favorably, but would wait to issue a formal response until he met with his senior ministers.
Even Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, representing the right flank in the inner cabinet, said this week that while he had reservations about the Quartet statement, “the fact that it calls for negotiations without preconditions is a great achievement for Israel.”
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