Firmness by Four World Power Group could aid in Peace Agreement!
February 2, 2007
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The United States, United Nations, European Union, and Russia are expected to reaffirm a strong statement they signed a year ago.
The statement requires Hamas to: (1) Renounce Violence, (2) Accept Israel’s Right to Exist, and (3) To stand by Commitments made by the previous Palestinian Government.
Two Associated Press Articles from the Jerusalem Post, which follow, are interrelated to the possibility of a false peace with Israel, involving Fatah and Hamas as a single government negotiating with Israel. The civil war that is going on between Fatah and Hamas will cease if
Hamas, at least in deceit, appears to give in to the three demands made by the Big Four in Article one. They are also listed in the previous paragraph.
The proposed meeting of Article Two in Saudi Arabia, between the Real Head of Hamas based in Syria, and Fatah’s Abbas, might be the start of a move of deceit on the part of Hamas to seem to soften its hard stand on the three requirements placed on them by the Big Four in Article One.
Begin Article One
World won’t back down from conditions for Hamas gov’t
Associated Press, THE JERUSALEM POST
February 2, 2007
World powers that met Friday for a strategy session on Middle East peace will not back away from the conditions they set for the Hamas-led Palestinian government to receive vital overseas financial aid and international political recognition, a US spokesman said.
The gathering of would-be peacemakers comes amid renewed fighting between Hamas and security forces loyal to the former ruling Fatah Party that has raised new alarm about a possible Palestinian civil war.
State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said the United States, United Nations, European Union and Russia are expected to reaffirm a strong statement they signed a year ago, days after Hamas won a surprise victory in Palestinian elections.
That statement would require Hamas to renounce violence, accept Israel’s right to exist, and stand by commitments made by the previous secular Palestinian government.
Hamas has refused to meet those terms,
leading
to a cutoff of direct international aid and a breakdown of services and order in the Palestinian territories.
World powers have largely abandoned hope that Hamas radicals will drop the anti-Israel positions and are looking for a new approach.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that Middle East peace talks should resume despite an outbreak
of violence among Palestinian factions.
“It doesn’t help to talk about a timetable, but it does help to talk about a commitment,” Rice said after meeting with world powers for a strategy session on the Middle East.
Despite that violence, “There’s simply no reason to avoid the subject of how we get to a Palestinian state,” Rice said after a meeting at the State Department with foreign ministers from Russia, the European Union and the United Nations.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that in helping to advance the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, “Syria could play a constructive role.”
Rice expressed little enthusiasm for such a prospect.
“I hope that it (Syria) will in fact try and play a positive role rather than a negative one,” she told reporters.
The meeting convened by Rice risked appearing irrelevant in light of the internal Palestinian disarray. Any eventual political accommodation with Israel would require a Palestinian government unified and capable enough to negotiate lasting terms.
Begin Article Two
Abbas to meet Mashaal in Saudi Arabia
Associated Press, THE JERUSALEM POST
February 2, 2007
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas will meet with Hamas’ top leader in Saudi Arabia next week in another effort
to negotiate a national unity government agreement, an aide to Abbas said Friday.
The meeting between Abbas and Hamas supreme leader Khaled Mashaal was to take place Tuesday, the official said. The two leaders met in Syria last month, but failed to reach agreement on forming a government.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the meeting had not been officially announced.
The decision to meet came as Fatah and Hamas gunmen battled in the streets of Gaza in a new wave of factional violence.
Abbas, speaking at his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Friday, appealed for calm.
“I call on all parties in Gaza to stop these actions that harm the Palestinian people,” he said.
Saudi Arabia had invited Abbas and Mashaal to travel there to try to resolve their differences.
Speaking Friday at his West Bank headquarters, Abbas did not confirm the meeting, but reiterated that he was willing to travel to Saudi Arabia in theory for new talks with Mashaal.
“We are in contact now with Saudi Arabia over a meeting, and when they are ready to receive us, for sure we will go without any hesitation,” he said.
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