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'Erekat: Palestinians will not accept Israel as 'Jewish state'
By Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent and Haaretz Service
tags: Saeb Erekat, peace talks
By Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent and Haaretz Service
tags: Saeb Erekat, peace talks
Saeb Erekat, chief negotiator for the Palestine Liberation Organization, rejected on Monday the government's demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state. In an interview with Israel Radio, Erekat said that "no state in the world connects its national identity to a religious identity." Also Monday, dozens of prominent Palestinian residents of Jerusalem published an appeal to the Abbas, asking him not to make concessions to Israel over the holy city in the upcoming talks.
The full-page newspaper ad, signed by 108 prominent Jerusalemites, including top Christian and Muslim leaders, did not make specific demands. However, the signatories asked Abbas not to negotiate a deal that would "violate our national rights." "Israel should return all of east Jerusalem, the area it captured in the 1967 Mideast War and annexed to its capital," said signatory Adnan Hussein, an adviser to Abbas on Jerusalem affairs. Earlier Monday, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that the starting point for all negotiations with the Palestinians will be the "recognition of Israel as a state for the Jewish people, This recognition is meant to bolster Israel's position that rejects the return of Palestinian refugees to areas inside the Green Line - the border before the 1967 Six-Day War. "We won't hold negotiations on our existence as a Jewish state, this is a launching point for all negotiations," Olmert said.'
The full-page newspaper ad, signed by 108 prominent Jerusalemites, including top Christian and Muslim leaders, did not make specific demands. However, the signatories asked Abbas not to negotiate a deal that would "violate our national rights." "Israel should return all of east Jerusalem, the area it captured in the 1967 Mideast War and annexed to its capital," said signatory Adnan Hussein, an adviser to Abbas on Jerusalem affairs. Earlier Monday, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that the starting point for all negotiations with the Palestinians will be the "recognition of Israel as a state for the Jewish people, This recognition is meant to bolster Israel's position that rejects the return of Palestinian refugees to areas inside the Green Line - the border before the 1967 Six-Day War. "We won't hold negotiations on our existence as a Jewish state, this is a launching point for all negotiations," Olmert said.'
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Onafhankelijke deskundigen wijzen op het grote gevaar dat als de joods-Israelische politici hun zin krijgen en het land wordt erkent als een exclusief joodse staat, de "joodse natie" zal eisen dat alle Palestijnse Israeli's vertrekken naar de Palestijnse staat. De vooraanstaande Britse journalist Jonathan Cook die in Nazareth leeft, waarschuwde hiervoor in zijn Blood and Religion. The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State: 'It is my belief that, despite the common perception that a peace process of sorts was being re-established in late 2005, Israel's "disengagement" marked the beginning of a new phase of the conflict, one in which the stakes will be much higher and the fighting far deadlier. It is a period in which the endgame will eventually bind the fate of the Palestinians in the occupied territories to that of Israel's Palestinian citizens. As Israel finally begins to fashion these "borders", Palestinians both inside Israel and in the occupied territories will find themselves in parallel situations, facing mirror images of the same racist policies,' waarmee de oude zionistische eis om in een etnisch zuivere staat te leven, een joodse getto in het Midden Oosten, verwezenlijkt zal zijn. De vraag is waarom het Westen aan de voorbereidingen van deze etnische zuivering meewerkt. We kunnen straks niet zeggen dat we van niets wisten.
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