Abb as suggests
a Temporary Palestinian State inside Security Barrier!
January 12, 2007
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If my recollection hasn’t failed me, this is the first time any Palestinian Authority Chairman has suggested the establishment of a “temporary” Palestinian State “in accordance with the route
of the security fence.” If this report is true, I consider it a very significant act on the part of the Palestinian Authority, and something well worth watching.
Although I do not know what Chairman Abbas’ plan entails, I feel confident he is suggesting that both Fatah and Israel declare that a temporary PA State exists within the boundaries of the proposed Security Fence route. Then future negotiations, as to where specific changes will be made, would be followed by the Palestinian State being declared permanent at the time negotiations were completed.
The following article by Herb Keinon in the Jerusalem Post, mentions the suggestion Abbas is due to suggest.
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Rice to propose ‘new ideas’ to Abbas
Herb Keinon, THE JERUSALEM POST
January 12, 2007
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is set to propose “new ideas” to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas during her trip to the region, according to a statement released by officials from the PA chairman’s office on Friday.
In addition, Abbas is due to suggest an alternate plan for the establishment of a Palestinian state, namely, a temporary state in accordance with the route of the security fence, the officials said.
On Thursday, diplomatic sources said that the US administration was concerned by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s weak public standing and unsure of what or how much he can deliver, on the eve of Rice’s journey.
According to the sources, Olmert’s political woes have undermined his stature in the eyes of the administration, and although he is liked personally in Washington he is not deemed a leader with the
political capital able to deliver – an assessment similar to the one Washington has of Abbas.
Rice is scheduled to meet with Abbas in Ramallah on Sunday, and then go to Jordan for a meeting with King Abdullah.
She will return to Jerusalem that evening and meet with Olmert on Monday.
From there she will go to Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain.
Her meetings in the Arab countries are expected to concentrate on Iran as well as what those countries can do to provide more assistance to Abbas.
Hilary Leila Krieger contributed to this report.
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I agree 100 percent with the conclusion the U.S. State Department has reached concerning dialogue with Iran and Syria. The statements made by Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, in the following article extracted from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs Daily Alert, are right on target. Dialogue with Syria and Iran can never produce a true peace in the Middle East.
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Rice Rejects Dialogue with Iran, Syria
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Thursday: “We have to base our regional strategy on the substantially changed realities of the Middle East. This is a different Middle East. This Middle East is a Middle East in which there really is a new alignment of forces. On one side are reformers and responsible leaders who seek to advance their interests peacefully, politically, and diplomatically.
On the other side are extremists of every sect and ethnicity who use violence to spread chaos, to undermine democratic governments, and to impose agendas of hatred and intolerance.”
“On one side of that divide, the Gulf countries, including Saudi Arabia and
the other countries of the Gulf, Egypt, Jordan, the young democracies of Lebanon, of the Palestinian territory led by Mahmoud Abbas and in Iraq.
But on the other side of that divide are Iran, Syria, and Hizbullah and Hamas. And I think we have to understand that that is a fundamental divide. Iran and Syria have made their choice and their choice is to destabilize, not to stabilize.”
“And so with all respect to those who talk about engagement with Syria and Iran, I think we need to recognize that if Iran and Syria wish to play a stabilizing role for their own interests, then they will do so. If on the other hand, they intend to offer a stabilizing role because they believe that in our current situation in Iraq we are willing to pay a price, that’s not diplomacy, that’s extortion.” (State Department)
End Article from Daily Alert
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