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Erekat tells diplomats world must hold Israel to account
Published today (updated) 03/12/2011 16:01
Senior PLO official Saeb Erekat on Saturday urged the international community
to hold the Israeli government to account in meetings with foreign diplomats.
(MaanImages/Rami Swidan, File)JERICHO (Ma'an) -- Senior PLO official Saeb Erekat on Saturday urged the international community to hold the Israeli government to account and stop treating Israel as above the law.
Erekat’s remarks came during separate meetings with the US consul general in Jerusalem Daniel Rubinstein, the French consul general Frédéric Desagneaux, and representative of Japan to the Palestinian Authority Naofumi Hashimoto, a press statement said.
Erekat said Israel's closure of civil society organizations in East Jerusalem, its continuation of settlement activities and the ongoing blockade on the Gaza Strip reflect an ongoing trend of thwarting the peace process and all attempts to resume negotiations.
The measures are also part of Israel's efforts to eliminate the two-state solution, he added.
The Fatah official urged UN member countries to vote in favor of Palestine's membership at the international body.
"Voting pro Palestine will support peace and the two-state solution. It is the shortest way to achieve comprehensive, sustainable, and just peace in the Middle East," he said.Erekat tells diplomats world must hold Israel to account
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Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is a man who has done the unthinkable: on Friday he announced that Brazil recognized the state of Palestine based on the 1967 borders. What???
Without talking? and more talking? and more hand wringing? and only after one trip in March 2010 to the Middle East? This is unbelievable. Does he realize how many miles American ambassadors, secretaries of state and presidents have logged just trying to get the parties to talk, let alone, agree? Does he not see that if he does recognize Palestine, it's only a matter of time before other nations will join the fray? This is no way to run the world, seriously.
But Lula, as he is called by his admirers, is not an ordinary man, nor an ordinary head of state. When we elected Obama for President, and he took office in 2009, there was only one man more popular than our president, and that was Lula. In his own country, he had an 80% approval rating. They loved him so much in fact, that they elected his right-hand woman, Dilma Rousseff, (who has Jewish roots) for president, even though she had little experience in governing, and lots of know-how in guerrilla fighting.Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is a man who has done the unthinkable: on Friday he... more
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Israel's opposition party leader Tzipi Livni says that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does not really believe in a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
"Netanyahu doesn't really believe that two states, a Jewish state and a Palestinian state, even a demilitarized one, is an Israeli interest," Livni said on Monday, while addressing lawmakers at the Knesset (Israeli Parliament).
"But the prime minister was surprised to encounter the outside world and placed Israel, to my great sorrow, in the position of the party that is rejecting peace and then he understood that at this stage he needs to utter the words 'two states'," the Kadima leader also underlined.
In an address at Bar-Ilan University outside Tel Aviv on June 14, Netanyahu noted that any future Palestinian state would have to be demilitarized.
His endorsement of a severely restricted Palestinian state -- which would not have control of its own air space or even armed forces -- was, however, rejected by the Palestinians who said his conditions will not lead to peace.Israel's opposition party leader Tzipi Livni says that Prime Minister Benjamin... more
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In an unprecedented move, the Obama administration is readying for a possible confrontation with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by briefing Democratic congressmen on the peace process and the positions of the new government in Israel regarding a two-state solution.
The Obama administration is expecting a clash with Netanyahu over his refusal to support the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel.In an unprecedented move, the Obama administration is readying for a possible... more
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At a closed-door dinner of European Union diplomats held Friday in the Czech Republic, several senior officials said Israel must be required to present an explicit commitment accepting the principle of "two states for two peoples," and if it fails, the process of upgrading Israel-EU relations should be frozen.
At least 10 communiques from Israeli embassies in Europe arrived at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem in recent days painting a difficult picture of the level of trust felt in Europe towards the Netanyahu government, particularly on diplomatic matters.
The dispatches all had the same message: The diplomats present at the dinner criticized Israel on its handling of negotiations with the Palestinians, settlement building, the destruction of homes in East Jerusalem and the humanitarian situation in Gaza.At a closed-door dinner of European Union diplomats held Friday in the Czech Republic,... more
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A look at the OneVoice Echo movement in Boston, which is an organization that seeks a two-state solution between Israel and Palestine.A look at the OneVoice Echo movement in Boston, which is an organization that seeks a... more
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