EU verklaring Jeruzalem tot dinsdag uitgesteld wegens onenigheid

Men kwam er maandag niet uit, en dus wordt dinsdag verder vergaderd, nu door de ministers van buitenlandse zaken. Ik vind het persoonlijk verbluffend dat een dergelijk idioot voorstel zoveel steun heeft. Ter informatie: het voorstel is dat de EU Oost-Jeruzalem als hoofdstad van een Palestijnse staat erkent zonder dat enige melding wordt gemaakt van de status van de oude stad of zelfs West-Jeruzalem en Joodse rechten aldaar. Ook ontbreekt iedere melding van legitieme Israelische veiligheidsbehoeften, of de vraag of men straks ook weer, net als onder het bestuur van Jordanië tot 1967, de toegang tot de Klaagmuur zal worden ontzegd? Joden hebben blijkbaar geen rechten in Jeruzalem, alleen Palestijnen.

Een ander punt is dat Israel wel wordt bekritiseerd op van alles, maar er niks positiefs instaat over bijvoorbeeld de bouwstop in de nederzettingen.

Israeli officials said that they had been told by those supporting the statement that it was needed to prod Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas back to the negotiating table.

Dat is een mooi staaltje van omkering. Dit voorstel sterkt de Palestijnen juist in hun besluit geen genoegen te nemen met de huidige Israelische bouwstop en te volharden in haar weigering de onderhandelingen te hervatten.

 

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Dec 7, 2009 22:13 | Updated Dec 7, 2009 23:46

European FMs to decide on ME text

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By HERB KEINON

 

 

The 27 EU foreign ministers are scheduled to decide Tuesday on the final wording of a statement on the Middle East that may very well include European recognition of east Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state.

Efforts in Brussels on Monday to get a consensus on the text among the EU ambassadors failed, meaning the foreign ministers themselves will have to delve into the arguments over the text.

One Israeli official said it was very rare for a text this substantial to reach the foreign ministerial level without prior agreement.

The official said that Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt was working hard to pass the statement, extremely problematic from an Israeli point of view. He is being supported by British Foreign Secretary David Miliband. Other countries behind the proposal are Ireland and Portugal.

The countries that are working to amend the text and have it include more supportive statements toward Israel are Italy, Hungary, Romania, the Czech Republic and Poland.

France and Germany, one official said, are somewhere in the middle, weary of the diplomatic battle that both Israel and the Palestinians have been waging across Europe over the last week.

And not only in Europe. Foreign Ministry director-general Yossi Gal was in Washington on Monday for high-level talks with US officials during which this issue, and the ramifications of the passage of the statement, was high on the agenda.

Israeli officials said that they had been told by those supporting the statement that it was needed to prod Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas back to the negotiating table.

Israel has waged an extensive diplomatic charge over the last week against the Swedish draft, one that included intervention by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and National Security Council head Uzi Arad.

Nevertheless, there was a degree of pessimism in Jerusalem Monday night about the likelihood of removing the clause calling for recognition of east Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state.

Israel is concerned that the draft statement, while it prejudges negotiations on Jerusalem, does not make sufficient mention of Israel's security needs, nor does it talk about the need for a future Palestinian state to be demilitarized, or for Israel to be a Jewish state.