De Arabische staten spreken tegenwoordig niet meer veel over "de Zionistische vijand". Toen Abbas die woorden 2 jaar geleden nog tijdens zijn verkiezingscampagne gebruikte, zorgde dat voor veel ophef.
In haar vredesinitiatief van 2002/2007 bood de Arabische Liga aan tot normalisatie van de betrekkingen met Israël bereid te zijn als Israël aan haar voorwaarden zou voldoen, zoals een volledige terugtrekking naar de grenzen van voor 1967 en een oplossing van het Palestijnse vluchtelingenprobleem conform de VN-resoluties, die door hen als een recht op terugkeer van alle-vluchtelingen-en-hun-nakomelingen naar Israël wordt uitgelegd.
Olmert wilde wel met de Arabische Liga aan tafel gaan zitten, maar uiteraard niet op voorhand en onverkort haar eisenpakket inwilligen. Onderhandelingen waren echter niet voorzien in het initiatief, hooguit over de details van de uitvoering.
In de aanloop naar de Annapolis conferentie wordt er alsnog officieus overlegd met de Israëli's, tot woede van de anti-Zionistische vereniging in Bahrein, een eilandstaatje met zo'n 700.000 inwoners, die nog op de ouderwetse toer is: Israël moet eerst alle eisen inwilligen en als die onafhankelijke Palestijnse staat er is, dan...
Ja wat dan? Of er dan vrede met Israël gesloten kan worden, laat men liever in het midden. Vrede is in hun Orwelliaanse taalgebruik synoniem met een Palestijnse staat, niet met vrede met Israël.
"Only after full peace returns can we ever think of talking with the Zionist enemy."
Wouter
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Gulf Daily News, Bahrain / Oct. 29, 2007
Anti-Zionist drive to be stepped up
By RASHA AL QAHTANI
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=198141&Sn=BNEW&IssueID=30223
ANTI-ISRAEL activists are calling for a wider public involvement in their campaign against normalisation with the "Zionists".
A meeting is being held today by the Bahrain Society Against Normalisation with the Zionist Enemy, Adliya, at 8pm, where a host of non-governmental organisations and MPs have been invited.
They will discuss steps to be taken following the Foreign Minister's unofficial meeting with his Israeli counterpart in New York earlier this month.
The society maintains that Bahrain should not have any interaction with anyone in Israel at any level.
"We are expecting a large number of people to attend this meeting where we will suggest presenting a number of letters to the Foreign Affairs Ministry and the Arab League to denounce the move," said society secretary Abdulla Abdulmalik.
"The meeting will also discuss an incident that took place in a private school where students were asked to colour the Zionist regime's flag."
"We hope to get more support from all societies and citizens in our campaign."
The Foreign Ministry issued a statement earlier this month stating that the meeting came within the framework of Bahrain's role in the Arab peace initiative, which called for maintaining contacts with all sides involved in the Middle East peace process, to defend the Palestinian cause.
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Public Debate in Bahrain over Contacts with Israel
24/10/2007
Gulf Daily News
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com
By Mandeep Singh
http://www.palestine-pmc.com/details.asp?cat=1&id=1138
BAHRAIN should not have any interaction with anyone in Israel, at any level, the "Bahrain Society Against Normalization with the Zionist Enemy" secretary Abdulla Abdulmalik said Tuesday.
He was reacting to the Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid's recent unofficial meeting with his Israeli counterpart in New York.
But the Foreign Ministry says the meeting was within Bahrain's role in the Middle East peace process.
"The Foreign Ministry wishes to make it clear that Bahrain's stances in support of the Palestinian cause remain unequivocal and unflinching and are not susceptible to any political manipulation or bargaining," it said in a statement earlier this month.
"Bahrain's crystal clear stances, which never derailed from the Arab mainstream, stress the need to reach a lasting, comprehensive and just peace based on the establishment of a fully-independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.
"The Foreign Ministry's contacts must not be regarded as a normalisation step with Israel, but as a contribution to the joint Arab efforts in support of the Palestinian cause and to the benefit of Bahrain's supreme interests."
The statement added that the meeting came within the framework of Bahrain's role in the Arab peace initiative, which called for maintaining contacts with all sides involved in the Middle East peace process, to defend the Palestinian cause.
"There is no need for this, since there is no peace in the entire Middle East region, thanks to the Israelis," Abdulmalik told a Press conference at the society headquarters in Adliya.
"We are against any such interaction, official or unofficial, until there is complete peace in the region.
"We know well enough that it is the Zionists who are responsible for what is happening in the region.
"Palestinians are being killed every day and the Zionists are getting more and more daring and arrogant. Under the circumstances, why should there be a dialogue with them?"
He said Shaikh Khalid acted against the conscience of Bahrainis, Arabs and Muslims by meeting his Israeli counterpart Tzipi Livni.
"It is not true that the meeting was within Bahrain's role in the Middle East peace process. The Arab League has mandated that role to Egypt and Jordan and not to Bahrain," said Abdulmalik.
He said it was also not right to suggest that the meeting came within the framework of Bahrain's role in the Arab peace initiative, which called for maintaining contacts with all sides involved in the Middle East peace process, to defend the Palestinian cause.
"We want all this to stop, for the sake of peace and for the sake of the Palestinian people. Only after full peace returns can we ever think of talking with the Zionist enemy."
He was reacting to the Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid's recent unofficial meeting with his Israeli counterpart in New York.
But the Foreign Ministry says the meeting was within Bahrain's role in the Middle East peace process.
"The Foreign Ministry wishes to make it clear that Bahrain's stances in support of the Palestinian cause remain unequivocal and unflinching and are not susceptible to any political manipulation or bargaining," it said in a statement earlier this month.
"Bahrain's crystal clear stances, which never derailed from the Arab mainstream, stress the need to reach a lasting, comprehensive and just peace based on the establishment of a fully-independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.
"The Foreign Ministry's contacts must not be regarded as a normalisation step with Israel, but as a contribution to the joint Arab efforts in support of the Palestinian cause and to the benefit of Bahrain's supreme interests."
The statement added that the meeting came within the framework of Bahrain's role in the Arab peace initiative, which called for maintaining contacts with all sides involved in the Middle East peace process, to defend the Palestinian cause.
"There is no need for this, since there is no peace in the entire Middle East region, thanks to the Israelis," Abdulmalik told a Press conference at the society headquarters in Adliya.
"We are against any such interaction, official or unofficial, until there is complete peace in the region.
"We know well enough that it is the Zionists who are responsible for what is happening in the region.
"Palestinians are being killed every day and the Zionists are getting more and more daring and arrogant. Under the circumstances, why should there be a dialogue with them?"
He said Shaikh Khalid acted against the conscience of Bahrainis, Arabs and Muslims by meeting his Israeli counterpart Tzipi Livni.
"It is not true that the meeting was within Bahrain's role in the Middle East peace process. The Arab League has mandated that role to Egypt and Jordan and not to Bahrain," said Abdulmalik.
He said it was also not right to suggest that the meeting came within the framework of Bahrain's role in the Arab peace initiative, which called for maintaining contacts with all sides involved in the Middle East peace process, to defend the Palestinian cause.
"We want all this to stop, for the sake of peace and for the sake of the Palestinian people. Only after full peace returns can we ever think of talking with the Zionist enemy."
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