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| Arabs call for guarantees for direct Mideast talks |
| 2010-07-19 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] Arab League chief Amr Mussa said on Sunday that Palestinians could not move to from indirect to direct talks with Israel without written guarantees. "We cannot automatically move from one negotiation to another without written guarantees," said Mussa, whose 22-member pan-Arab organization backed indirect talks between Israel and Palestinians in May. He made his comments after meeting US Middle East envoy George Mitchell and after Mitchell, Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held separate talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Mussa, who met with Abbas on Saturday, said he thought the Palestinian leader was committed to Arab League conditions for resuming direct talks, which include an end to settlement building in occupied Palestinian lands. "I felt the Palestinian president was committed to the decisions of the ministerial council that the automatic transition from indirect to direct negotiations is not feasible," he said. The Arab League first backed the talks in March but then endorsed the Palestinians' refusal to go ahead with them after Israel announced plans to build more Jewish homes in mainly Arab east Jerusalem. It supported them again a month later after the Palestinians said they had received unspecified assurances from the United States. The Palestinians want east Jerusalem, annexed by Israel in 1967, for the capital of their promised state. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #8 WORLD NEWS/TOPIX > GOVT. TOLD 2.5MILYUHN AFRICANS WAITING TO ENTER ISRAEL, from Egypt. * SAME > TURKEY CLAIMING A FOOTHOLD IN OLD CITY [Old Quarter= Jersusalem]. Turkish flags flying oer Jerusalem, PALESTINE??? * SAME > HIZBULLAH DEPLOYS 5000 FIGHTERS TO SOUTH LEBANON. ARTIC = HIZBUL LIONS OF ISLAM repor digging in + getting ready for new Struggle, War agz ISRAEL inside LEBANESE HOMES + HOSPITALS + SCHOOLS, ETC. * WAFF > HEZBOLLAH PREPARES FOR NEW WAR AGZ ISRAEL | [Strategypage]I'LL RAISE YOU NASTY SURPRISE. Milyuhns + Zilyuhns + Dilyuhns of NEW IMPROVED IEDS + "KORNET" ATGMS waiting for new Israeli invasion in South Lebanon. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-07-20 00:06 |
| #7 "translation: We FTFY, lg - no charge. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-07-19 13:49 |
| #6 Until the policy of Arab Street is disbanded a guarantee is worthless even if the government is sincere. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2010-07-19 12:07 |
| #5 "...Palestinians could not move to from indirect to direct talks with Israel without written guarantees." translation: We need money. Now. |
| Posted by: lord garth 2010-07-19 10:37 |
| #4 the arab "culture" lacks the backbone to uphold it's side of any guarantee. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2010-07-19 08:17 |
| #3 Written guarantees didn't help Sadat. The Palestinian leadership lacks the courage to make peace with Israel. |
| Posted by: Mike Ramsey 2010-07-19 07:42 |
| #2 TOPIX > ISRAEL MUST ACCEPT INTERNATIONAL BORDER FORCE, vee PA [+ Jerusalem?]. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-07-19 03:06 |
| #1 ION PAKISTANI DEFENE FORUM > PALESTINIANS MAY SOON HAVE TO SWEAR LOYALTY TO JEWISH/ISRAELI STATE. * SAME > US TELLS JORDAN: COORDINATE WID ISRAEL ON NULCEAR POWER [or no USD $$$]. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-07-19 03:03 |