woensdag 12 november 2008

Bij Arafat herdenking zegt Abbas dat hij concessies rond Jeruzalem afwees

 
Abbas legt precies uit waarom er nog geen vrede is:

"We rejected Israeli proposals that stipulated making concessions including on Jerusalem and the refugees," he said.
"We either get all six points - Jerusalem, settlements, borders, refugees, water and security - or nothing at all," Abbas said.

Zo werkt dat natuulijk niet in onderhandelingen.

Het volgende is nogal vreemd:

Arafat died at a hospital in France in November 2004 at the age of 75 of a stroke triggered by a blood-clotting disorder brought on by food poisoning.

Although his French hospital record published by The New York Times said no traces of commonly used poisons were found in his system and his liver and kidneys were not damaged as is common after poisoning, Arafat's nephew insisted on Tuesday that Israel was behind the late Palestinian leader's death, and that the type of poison and method used by Israel would soon be revealed.


Het is onwaarschijnlijk dat hij door vergiftiging omkwam, en zijn neef is natuurlijk geen neutrale bron. Als in het ziekenhuis geen sporen van vergiftiging zijn gevonden, is de kans groot dat hij gewoon een natuurlijke dood is gestorven. Waarom Haaretz hier meedoet met de Palestijnse complottheorieën is me een raadsel.
 
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Abbas: In talks, Israel has proposed concessions regarding Jerusalem

By DPA Last update - 18:49 11/11/2008
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1036405.html

 
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Tuesday that during peace talks over the past year, Israel had proposed concessions to him regarding Jerusalem, but he rejected them because they were partial.

Abbas told tens of thousands of Palestinians who gathered at his Ramallah headquarters to mark four years since the death of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat that he wants a full peace deal and will accept no partial one.

"We rejected Israeli proposals that stipulated making concessions including on Jerusalem and the refugees," he said.

"We either get all six points - Jerusalem, settlements, borders, refugees, water and security - or nothing at all," Abbas said.

The Palestinian leader added that he had made his position clear during a meeting Sunday with the Quartet of Middle East peace mediators - the United States, European Union, United Nations and Russia - in Egypt.

Israel has consistently insisted in recent months that the sides had not yet touched on the issue of Jerusalem, although it had agreed "in principle" to include it in the negotiations. Outgoing prime minister Ehud Olmert had promised ultra-Orthodox coalition partners in the past that negotiations on Jerusalem would be left for last.

Abbas has rejected his offer for a peace deal that would sideline the highly sensitive issue and leave it for later, arguing that partial peace agreements have thus far not yielded any progress toward statehood for the Palestinians.

Abbas strongly attacked the Islamic movement Hamas, at one point calling them "traitors."

Abbas also accused Hamas, the bitter rival of his and Arafat's more secular Fatah movement, of having undermined efforts to achieve "national reconciliation" by refusing to attend Egyptian-hosted talks which had been scheduled to start in Cairo on Monday, but were canceled when Hamas announced a last minute boycott of the talks.

He said he was ready to hold presidential and legislative elections immediately, calling on Hamas to accept this proposal.

Abbas charged Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, used force to prevent Gazans from marking the anniversary of Arafat's death.

Pro-Fatah Palestinian media also said Hamas forces, both in civilian clothes and military uniforms, had deployed across Gaza to prevent any gathering of Fatah supporters trying to commemorate Arafat's death. They said they also entered schools and "beat up" a number of pupils who wore Arafat's trademark kaffiyeh.

Tens of thousands of Fatah supporters flocked to the Ramallah compound, which contains Arafat's mausoleum and tomb, since the early hours of Tuesday, carrying yellow Fatah flags and portraits of their late leader.

Arafat died at a hospital in France in November 2004 at the age of 75 of a stroke triggered by a blood-clotting disorder brought on by food poisoning.

Although his French hospital record published by The New York Times said no traces of commonly used poisons were found in his system and his liver and kidneys were not damaged as is common after poisoning, Arafat's nephew insisted on Tuesday that Israel was behind the late Palestinian leader's death, and that the type of poison and method used by Israel would soon be revealed.

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