Een paar maanden geleden beweerde Oscar Garschagen in zijn afscheidsartikel voor de NRC dat Israël Jeruzalem nooit zal delen, dat het de onbetwiste winnaar is, die met feiten op de grond een Palestijnse staat in feite al onmogelijk heeft gemaakt en dit proces de komende jaren verder zal voltooien.
De realiteit is een andere, en Shas en andere rechtse partijen maken zich dan ook grote zorgen over de voortgang die volgens een Palestijnse onderhandelaar is bereikt in de besprekingen over Jeruzalem. Geloof niet in sprookjes over Joodse almacht, ook niet als ze worden verteld door een correspondent van een kwaliteitskrant.
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Politicians infuriated over secret talks on J'lem's fate
Gil Hoffman, Talia Dekel and Khaled Abu Toameh, THE JERUSALEM POST
Feb. 10, 2008
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Reactions over secret talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority as reported by the Jerusalem Post began to surface among politicians on Sunday.
Saturday's report cited a top Ramallah official as saying that the Palestinian negotiating team headed by former PA prime minister Ahmed Qurei had been holding undisclosed negotiations with Livni and other government officials in the past few weeks.
"The cat is out of the bag," MK Zevulun Orlev (NU/NRP) told the Post. "The fact that [Prime Minister Ehud] Olmert's government is not telling the truth over the negotiations with the Palestinians has been revealed.
"Shas will no longer be able to say they didn't know. Even if the prime minister isn't telling them the truth, they can thank the Jerusalem Post for revealing it to them. I hope Shas keeps its promise and leaves the government that is dividing Jerusalem," Orlev said.
Jerusalem Municipality opposition leader Nir Barkat called on Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni to reveal any agreements reached during negotiations with the Palestinians following a report on Sunday in the Jerusalem Post which revealed that secret Israeli-PA talks have resulted in progress over the issue of Jerusalem.
"I demand that the foreign minister, who heads the negotiations with the Palestinians, publicly disclose all secretive and other agreements that the state of Israel has reached with the Palestinians," Barkat told the Post.
In response to the report, which quoted a senior PA official in Ramallah, Barkat insisted that Jerusalem was not the subject of secret talks.
Barkat, who leads a public campaign against the proposed division of the capital, said "any such agreement achieved on behalf of an Israeli official would constitute an absolute deviation to Kadima's basic principles, a violation to the basic law of Jerusalem, betrays the trust of the voter and undermines the sovereign basis of the Israel's Knesset.
"The Palestinians must understand that neither the government of Israel, nor any other body on its behalf, have the right to promise to give up areas where Israeli law, governance and legislation has been implemented," he said.
United Torah Judaism MK Avraham Ravitz criticized the negotiations, saying that if "the story is true, then the Jerusalem's fate is being decided like a thief in the night. It cannot be that while Olmert is denying that there are any talks about Jerusalem at all, Tzipi Livni is negotiating in back rooms with Abu Ala (Qurei) about the state of our capital."
Meanwhile, Shas reiterated that it "would not stay in a government that divides" the Jewish capital.
A spokesperson for the group told the Post that Shas would have no part in a coalition that gave away parts of Jerusalem.
A spokesperson from Livni's office said that he was "not allowed to respond to anything going on in the [negotiating] room."
The Palestinian official told the Post that "Israel is prepared to withdraw from almost all the Arab neighborhoods and villages in Jerusalem. Israel is prepared to redivide Jerusalem and this is a positive development.
"The negotiations are moving too slowly," he said. "There are still too many difficulties, although one can say that some progress has been achieved."
"The cat is out of the bag," MK Zevulun Orlev (NU/NRP) told the Post. "The fact that [Prime Minister Ehud] Olmert's government is not telling the truth over the negotiations with the Palestinians has been revealed.
"Shas will no longer be able to say they didn't know. Even if the prime minister isn't telling them the truth, they can thank the Jerusalem Post for revealing it to them. I hope Shas keeps its promise and leaves the government that is dividing Jerusalem," Orlev said.
Jerusalem Municipality opposition leader Nir Barkat called on Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni to reveal any agreements reached during negotiations with the Palestinians following a report on Sunday in the Jerusalem Post which revealed that secret Israeli-PA talks have resulted in progress over the issue of Jerusalem.
"I demand that the foreign minister, who heads the negotiations with the Palestinians, publicly disclose all secretive and other agreements that the state of Israel has reached with the Palestinians," Barkat told the Post.
In response to the report, which quoted a senior PA official in Ramallah, Barkat insisted that Jerusalem was not the subject of secret talks.
Barkat, who leads a public campaign against the proposed division of the capital, said "any such agreement achieved on behalf of an Israeli official would constitute an absolute deviation to Kadima's basic principles, a violation to the basic law of Jerusalem, betrays the trust of the voter and undermines the sovereign basis of the Israel's Knesset.
"The Palestinians must understand that neither the government of Israel, nor any other body on its behalf, have the right to promise to give up areas where Israeli law, governance and legislation has been implemented," he said.
United Torah Judaism MK Avraham Ravitz criticized the negotiations, saying that if "the story is true, then the Jerusalem's fate is being decided like a thief in the night. It cannot be that while Olmert is denying that there are any talks about Jerusalem at all, Tzipi Livni is negotiating in back rooms with Abu Ala (Qurei) about the state of our capital."
Meanwhile, Shas reiterated that it "would not stay in a government that divides" the Jewish capital.
A spokesperson for the group told the Post that Shas would have no part in a coalition that gave away parts of Jerusalem.
A spokesperson from Livni's office said that he was "not allowed to respond to anything going on in the [negotiating] room."
The Palestinian official told the Post that "Israel is prepared to withdraw from almost all the Arab neighborhoods and villages in Jerusalem. Israel is prepared to redivide Jerusalem and this is a positive development.
"The negotiations are moving too slowly," he said. "There are still too many difficulties, although one can say that some progress has been achieved."
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