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Defense minister, PA president discuss easing security conditions in West Bank as confidence building measure one day before PM set to depart for Washington to relaunch negotiations.
On the eve of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's departure for Washington to relaunch peace negotiations with the Palestinians, Defense Minister Ehud Barak secretly met with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Amman on Monday night after having met Jordanian King Abdullah at his palace on Sunday.
After his meeting with King Abdullah, Barak returned to Israel to update the prime minister on their conversation before returning to Amman to meet Abbas.
Barak and Abbas discussed the further easing of security conditions for Palestinians in the West Bank as a confidence building measure as peace talks are renewed.
In his Sunday meeting with Abdullah, Barak said that Jordan holds a central position in the search for regional peace and in aiding Israel and the Palestinians to reach an agreement. The defense minister added that peace is a strategic goal for Israel and that Israel expects the Palestinians will arrive in Washington with an open heart to negotiations.
On the eve of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's departure for Washington to relaunch peace negotiations with the Palestinians, Defense Minister Ehud Barak secretly met with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Amman on Monday night after having met Jordanian King Abdullah at his palace on Sunday.
After his meeting with King Abdullah, Barak returned to Israel to update the prime minister on their conversation before returning to Amman to meet Abbas.
Barak and Abbas discussed the further easing of security conditions for Palestinians in the West Bank as a confidence building measure as peace talks are renewed.
In his Sunday meeting with Abdullah, Barak said that Jordan holds a central position in the search for regional peace and in aiding Israel and the Palestinians to reach an agreement. The defense minister added that peace is a strategic goal for Israel and that Israel expects the Palestinians will arrive in Washington with an open heart to negotiations.
Het enige dat ik de Palestijnen hoor zeggen is het uiten van dreigementen om uit de onderhandelingen te stappen als Israel de bouwstop niet verlengt. Dat men gedurende de negen maanden van deze stop misschien iets meer had moeten doen om Israel te laten zien dat zo'n stop ook enig effect heeft, lijkt niet door te dringen. Misschien moeten Westerse diplomaten dat eens uitleggen aan Abbas en Erekat.
Overigens waren Abbas en Fayyad vorige week wel bij de begrafenis van Amin Al-Hindi, een van de belangrijkse planners van de aanslag in Munchen in 1972 op de Israelische Olympische ploeg, die geheel werd vermoord. Hij werd als een held geëerd. Ook krijgen Palestijnse kinderen op de officiële PA TV te horen dat Haifa en Jaffa bezette Palestijnse steden zijn. Dat is de Palestijnse bijdrage aan vrede en een goed klimaat voor de onderhandelingen.
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