Ik zou me bij Abbas' eis dat Israel de bouw in de nederzettingen voor een bepaalde periode volledig stopzet en de wapenstilstandslijnen van 1949 (nogmaals, het zijn geen grenzen) als basis accepteert, iets kunnen voorstellen als hijzelf Israel onomwonden als Joodse staat zou erkennen (oftewel, het Joodse recht op zelfbeschikking in hun historische thuisland) en zou erkennen dat dat niet samengaat met een onbeperkt recht op terugkeer van de vluchtelingen. Maar hijzelf is op dat gebied geen milimeter opgeschoven. Ook weigert hij enige Joodse rechten in Oost-Jeruzalem te erkennen, ondanks het feit dat hier een aantal belangrijke Joodse plaatsen en heiligdommen liggen, en hier al Joden woonden voordat er moslims waren.
Nu stelt hij zich op als de overwinnaar, die zijn tegenstander een dictaat kan opleggen, en wordt daarin door Europa gesteund.
RP
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Last update - 00:00 15/12/2009
Abbas to PLO: Return to violence unacceptable
By Reuters
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1135221.html
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Last update - 00:00 15/12/2009
Abbas to PLO: Return to violence unacceptable
By Reuters
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1135221.html
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, whose peace talks with Israel have been stalled for a year, said on Tuesday he would not accept any return to violence as the sides struggled to relaunch the political process.
Addressing a meeting of the Central Council of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Ramallah, he said: "What is required of us ... a return to violence? I won't accept it."
He also told the PLO lesgislature that he would resume suspended peace talks with Israel if it halts settlement building "for a specific period" and recognizes the pre-1967 borders as a basis for a Palestinian state.
"When Israel stops settlement activity for a specific period and when it recognizes the borders we are calling for, and these are the legal borders, there would be nothing to prevent us from going to negotiations to complete what we agreed to at Annapolis," Abbas said.
The Palestinian president said he was not setting terms but simply reiterating Israel's obligations under the "road map" agreement for talks.
The PLO began a two-day meeting on Tuesday, during which it is expected to extend Abbas' term as president.
The PLO Central Council was also expected to back his opposition to re-starting negotiations with Israel unless it first halts all West Bank settlement building, leaving the "peace process" frozen.
Abbas's presidency of the Palestinian Authority expires on Jan. 25. An election to choose his successor was canceled after the Islamist Hamas movement said it would prohibit voting in the Gaza Strip, which it controls.
The PLO's Central Council, convening in Ramallah in the West Bank, has the authority to extend the president's term.
The Fatah movement, which dominates the PLO and is led by Abbas, has called on him to stay in office until elections can be held in Gaza as well as the West Bank. Abbas has made it clear he will not seek a second term.
Hamas, which is not part of the PLO, has said any extension of Abbas' term would be illegitimate. The Islamist movement says his term expired nearly a year ago. Unlike Abbas and the PLO, who are ready to negotiate a treaty with Israel, Hamas remains committed to armed struggle against the Jewish state.
The U.S.-backed Abbas, 74, has built his career around trying to negotiate a permanent peace with Israel.
Addressing a meeting of the Central Council of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Ramallah, he said: "What is required of us ... a return to violence? I won't accept it."
He also told the PLO lesgislature that he would resume suspended peace talks with Israel if it halts settlement building "for a specific period" and recognizes the pre-1967 borders as a basis for a Palestinian state.
"When Israel stops settlement activity for a specific period and when it recognizes the borders we are calling for, and these are the legal borders, there would be nothing to prevent us from going to negotiations to complete what we agreed to at Annapolis," Abbas said.
The Palestinian president said he was not setting terms but simply reiterating Israel's obligations under the "road map" agreement for talks.
The PLO began a two-day meeting on Tuesday, during which it is expected to extend Abbas' term as president.
The PLO Central Council was also expected to back his opposition to re-starting negotiations with Israel unless it first halts all West Bank settlement building, leaving the "peace process" frozen.
Abbas's presidency of the Palestinian Authority expires on Jan. 25. An election to choose his successor was canceled after the Islamist Hamas movement said it would prohibit voting in the Gaza Strip, which it controls.
The PLO's Central Council, convening in Ramallah in the West Bank, has the authority to extend the president's term.
The Fatah movement, which dominates the PLO and is led by Abbas, has called on him to stay in office until elections can be held in Gaza as well as the West Bank. Abbas has made it clear he will not seek a second term.
Hamas, which is not part of the PLO, has said any extension of Abbas' term would be illegitimate. The Islamist movement says his term expired nearly a year ago. Unlike Abbas and the PLO, who are ready to negotiate a treaty with Israel, Hamas remains committed to armed struggle against the Jewish state.
The U.S.-backed Abbas, 74, has built his career around trying to negotiate a permanent peace with Israel.
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