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| MomYou'dLikeToF' | posted on 10-12-2001 @ 3:32 PM |    | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Sep. 01  | Official: US Working on Peace Plan By Karin Laub Associated Press Writer Friday, Oct. 12, 2001; 3:15 p.m. EDT JERUSALEM –– The United States is putting together a Mideast peace plan that calls for establishing a Palestinian state with a foothold in Jerusalem, and Palestinians have won assurances that the ideas will be unveiled despite initial delays, a Palestinian Cabinet minister said Friday. Israel said Friday it has not been presented with the ideas but registered reservations about key elements that have been reported. Israeli Cabinet minister Dan Naveh said Israel staunchly opposes "ideas which include at their core the establishment of a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital." In Washington, a U.S. official confirmed that a Mideast proposal is in the works, and that it should be ready in about a month. A tentative time for going public is mid-November, during the U.N. General Assembly, said the official who spoke on condition of anonymity. He would not discuss details of the plan. The United States has not presented the emerging proposals to Israel or the Palestinians, officials from both sides said. But Palestinian officials say the United States has been discussing the plan with some other Arab nations. The Palestinians have been briefed on the U.S. ideas by Arab leaders, most recently this week when Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat visited Saudi Arabia, said Nabil Shaath, the Palestinian planning minister. The Bush administration was to have unveiled the peace initiative in September before the U.N. General Assembly. However, that move was disrupted by the Sept. 11 terror attacks on the United States. The General Assembly was postponed in response to the attacks, which Washington has blamed on accused terrorist Osama bin Laden. Shaath said the Palestinians were told that President Bush remains committed to the ideas. "In President Arafat's last visit to Saudi Arabia, just two days ago, our brothers informed us that the Americans assured them that they are still sticking to their positions," said Shaath. "All the indications coming now from the United States are positive and encouraging." According to Shaath, the U.S. plan would affirm the Palestinians' right to statehood, the principle of trading land for peace and U.N. resolutions 242 and 338 that call for an Israeli withdrawal from lands it occupied in the 1967 Mideast War. The initiative also states that the fate of disputed Jerusalem must be determined in peace talks, and that Islamic and Christian holy places in the city would come under Palestinian control, Shaath said. That outline is similar to various proposals made by Israel and former President Clinton about a year ago. But the Palestinians rejected the proposals as insufficient, and fighting erupted in September 2000. A key problem was Israel's rejection of the Palestinians' demand that refugees from the 1948 war – potentially numbering up to 4 million – be allowed to return to its territory. The renewed U.S. efforts come at a time when Washington is trying to win Muslim and Arab support for airstrikes against Afghanistan, which has rebuffed requests to surrender bin Laden. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said Wednesday that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon already sees that any Mideast peace settlement would involve a Palestinian state. Asked about provisions for Jerusalem, he said: "We're not at a moment where somebody is going to plunk down a map of Jerusalem." Naveh said Israel has not been informed by the United States about a peace plan but that "what's being said by the American government these days is a program that Israel cannot accept." Naveh was sharply critical of previous U.S. initiatives, including ideas put forth in the 1980s by then-President Reagan. "All history shows that when the Americans put a plan on the table, like the famous Reagan plan, the programs did not achieve their aims," Naveh said. "The United States helped achieve progress between Israel and the Arabs only when it did not publicly put a plan on the table, but conducted quiet contacts between the sides." Arafat is now not doing enough to prevent attacks on Israelis, Naveh said, and should not be rewarded. "In the present situation, there is nothing to talk about and no one to talk to," Naveh said. Naveh's comments came a day after Bush reaffirmed his support for eventual Palestinian statehood and Washington's backing for Israel. "I have met with Prime Minister Sharon, and I have assured him every time we've met that he has no better friend than the United States of America," Bush said. The president also said at a news conference that if Israel and the Palestinians end fighting and resume peace talks, "there ought to be a Palestinian state, the boundaries of which would be negotiated by the parties." The Palestinian nation would have to recognize Israel's right to exist, the president said. Bush also said he was also pleased that Arafat "is trying to control the radical elements within the Palestinian Authority." "I think the world ought to applaud him for that," Bush said. © Copyright 2001 The Associated Press | ||||
| Shifty | posted on 10-12-2001 @ 3:38 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: May. 00 | I have a peace plan. Let's send over some Peacekeeper Missiles. | ||||
| TheLatinJoker | posted on 10-12-2001 @ 3:49 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Oct. 00 | DILLON!!! I'm such a DEEK.SHUT UP,FATSO!!! | ||||
| Cunt-Twat I'm not a Cockblocker, I'm a COCKSUCKER! | posted on 10-12-2001 @ 3:54 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | bush is a genius. why don't we ask the jordanians how they liked it when the palestinians tried to assasinate king hussain, or the families in lebenon that were tortured when the palestinians took over that country for 5 years. this is a great plan. TOOL Remember-Laughter heals. | ||||
| adolescentmasturbator | posted on 10-12-2001 @ 4:58 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | quote: I don't remember that but I do remember what happened when Israel invaded Lebanon. quote: That's what they have been saying for years especially after 2(TWO) UN resolutions 242 and 338. The international consensus is two states that recognize each other's security. The only countries that have voted no on this consistently have been America and Israel.  Resident Board Socialist Email me here or IM me at stickysituation2 or pinkorag Webmaster of the Undergound Unofficial I Hate WhackBagKid Message Board I currently have brought no one into the International | ||||
| WyzeGuy | posted on 10-12-2001 @ 5:10 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Oct. 00 | Yeah, that's a good idea. Broker a peace deal without actually telling the two parties involved. Force our only ally in the region to give into terrorism, even as you sacrifice American lives in the hopes of annihilating it. Maybe a better idea would be to lead by example. I'm sure that Native-American-Indians will welcome the news that they're getting back everything west of the Mississppi. Or perhaps we could offer the Palestinians Texas. You know, in the name of peace! You don't defeat terrorism by giving into it. There's 22 Arab nations, yet not a one has offered to take in their Islamic brothers. Makes you wonder why that is! | ||||
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