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Israel Will Be to Blame if Peace Talks Collapse over Borders, Says Abbas
[An Nahar] Paleostinian president the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... warned Tuesday Israel would be to blame if ongoing peace talks collapsed over its military control of a border with Jordan. "We will not accept it, and if they (the talks) collapse, they (Israelis) will be the reason for the collapse, not us," Abbas told the Baltic News Service during a visit to Lithuania, current holder of the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... 's rotating presidency. Israeli daily Maariv reported last week that negotiations almost collapsed in September due to conflicting positions on future borders, particularly where the eastern West Bank adjoins Jordan. Israel has long stated that it seeks to retain a long-term military presence along the Jordan Valley. But Paleostinians flatly object to any Israeli military on land that could become the eastern front of a future Paleostinian state. "They don't have the right to stay in our territories after we signed a peace treaty," Abbas said Tuesday, while stressing that he accepts a future demilitarized Paleostinian state. Posted by: Fred 2013-10-23 |
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