Palestinians say were promised Jerusalem
PA sources claim US officials said any future state would include part of Jewish capital as their own, cessation of all settlement construction in West Bank; demand clear schedule for two-state solution
Ali WakedUS President Barack Obama's new peace plan for the Middle East continues to unravel, ahead of it official presentation in Cairo, on June 4.
Official Palestinian Authority sources told Ynet Wednesday that following Jordan's King Abdullah's visit to Washington, as well as other visits to the US capital, they were given the impression that any new American peace plan would call for establishing a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.
The source stressed that the US official also assured them the new plan would include halting all settlement construction, as well as setting a clear timetable for the realization of the two-state solution and a commitment that the permanent peace agreement would be negotiated according to the understanding set by the Arab peace initiative.The US plans to add "improvements" to theArab peace plan: According to an early May report in London-based Arabic-language newspaper al-Quds al-Arabi, the revised plan will include reintegrating Palestinian refugees either in various Arab nations, or in the demilitarized Palestinian state, and Israel and the Palestinian Authority would agree to a land exchange.
The revised plan is also said to call for east Jerusalem to be made the new state's capital – with the Palestinian Authority's flag waving over it official institutions and the UN banner waving over the Old City and places sacred to Judaism, Islam and Christianity.
The US is also expected to demand Arab nations set a timetable to thenormalization of their diplomatic relations with Israel – a step meant to encourage Jerusalem to take practical steps towards forming a Palestinian state.
2 comments:
Never gonna happen:
http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2009/05/why-palestinian-state-hasnt-happened.html
Plus it's illegal under international law, but you know what isn't? Taking back the territories and the Sinai, pushing the child molesters into Egypt and Jordan (where 100% of them are from) and annexing all the land. The only thing that's stopping it is US aid, and if the US asks for concessions Israel HAS to tell them to piss off. Taking military action against any of the above would be illegal under international law.
Obama literally couldn't be more tactless, especially now, when the US can only go to war with Chinese permission and money, and no Arab state has the money to do anything. Egypt would be so destabilized that the Ikhwan would have a coup and oust Mubarak, who would much sooner absorb the Gazans and lose the Sinai than let that happen.
Oh, and I'm sure Israel will be totally cool with a UN flag flying over Judaism's holiest sites in its own sovereign territory. Never mind the fact that many UN members don't even acknowledge Israel as a state and consistently single it out as the one country that represents the epitome of evil.
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