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One doesn't need to be an expert in peace negotiations to know that Israel's aim for the past 40 years has been to deny the Palestinians their rights. Having failed to break the backbone of Palestinians and end their resolve to resist, however, Israel resorted to delay tactics.

When not postponing urgent issues, it tried to empty from of all meaning. Like the idea of a Palestinian state that somehow got turned, during the Oslo accords, into the creation of a self-ruling entity, shorn of any real authority, over fragmented patches of land. This, indeed, is what the Oslo agreement has produced over the past 15 years or so.

During the time of Oslo, the number of settlers in the occupied territories doubled. A wall of racial segregation was erected. The West Bank has been cut off from Gaza. Jerusalem is now surrounded on all sides and stranded, with little or no connection to other Palestinian areas.

When negotiations resumed, Israel tried to make its major settlements built on confiscated lands in the West Bank into legitimate Israeli areas. At the same time they refused to discuss the matter of the Palestinian refugees – whose land they were stealing - and insisted on postponing any decision on Jerusalem. Meanwhile, the Israelis tirelessly tried to change the face of Jerusalem, building settlements inside and around it, altering and Judaising it by the day.

Israel is now suggesting a Palestinian state with "interim borders." In return, it wants the Palestinians to give up, effective immediately, the right of return of the refugees.

Israel also wants the Palestinians to cede claims to large swathes of their land - land that has been gulped up by settlements, land surrounding the Dead Sea, land in the disappeared Latrun villages of Imwas, Yalu, and Beit Nuba.

Israel is not in a mood to discuss Jerusalem right now. But it is in a good mind to build more settlements inside and around it.

In finally talking seriously about a Peace Agreement, Israel may be changing its rhetoric, but not its tactics. Instead of opposing a Palestinian state, it is willing to accept a state; albeit one that does not have sovereignty over its land.

The most recent suggestions for the borders for a Palestinian state show that Israel is willing to remove 3,000 settlers from small outposts on Palestinian land. This will leave 450,000 settlers on the largest settlements that spread over the hills in the central and northern West Bank.

Despite recent reports that Olmert is now willing to divide Jerusalem, everything Olmert and Barak have said so far suggests that they want to transform Jerusalem beyond recognition. The Jerusalem we all know is not the one they have in mind. The Jerusalem of Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the Mount of Olives, Salwan, Al-Issawia, and other parts of the old town, are about to look very much like the neighborhoods that have sprouted all around it: Izariya, Abu Dies and perhaps Beit Hanina.

Every time Palestinian negotiators give an inch, Israel takes a mile; the Oslo Accords are but a case in point.

It is fine to negotiate, but not when negotiations undermine the very basis of international resolutions and norms. UN resolutions - backed by rulings from the International Court of Justice - state that all the land Israel grabbed since the morning of 5 June 1967 are occupied territories. This goes for the old city of Jerusalem and its surroundings, the West Bank, Gaza, the Latrun villages, the Golan, and even the Shebaa Farms.

Egypt insisted on taking back every inch of Sinai, just as Syria is holding out for every inch of the Golan. The Palestinians cannot accept less.

We must insist on Israel's withdrawal from all the occupied land, instead of being talked into a risky land exchange. It is bad enough that Israel took in 1948 half of the land the 1947 UN partition plan gave to the Palestinians. We don't need to make things worse.

And what exactly is going on in negotiations? It's all kept under a tight lid, except for the randomly leaked piece of information suggesting that the issue of Jerusalem would be postponed, yet again. The Palestinian people are left in the dark about what's really going on. Given the bitter experience of Oslo, when a done deal was hatched behind the back of official negotiators, this doesn't augur well.

Everyone knows that giving up Arab Jerusalem, or any part of it, is not an option acceptable to the Palestinian people. Also, any interim solutions, especially those postponing discussion of Jerusalem, are highly risky if not an outright sign of capitulation.

The last thing we need is another deal that undermines our rights and weakens our people. Those negotiating on behalf of the Palestinians bear a huge responsibility in this moment. Anything they do can have long-term consequences for us all.

* Mustafa Barghouthi is secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative(PNI),and PLC member

October 6, 2008 | 11:56 AM Comments  4 comments

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adham5555 Adham Tobail
October 6, 2008 | 2:02 PM

The world had seen justice Allasiraiilip ground in the occupied "Palestine"
Thus, the Israeli army treats the children of Palestine? Why they have children and are the Palestinians.
Aihala see the world
This is Israel, which speaks of democracy and human rights, and there are many photos, which proved the Israeli army crimes in the occupied territories
Please search for the truth about the state of Israel and its crimes in Palestine
Adham Tabil
The occupied territories
adham5555 Adham Tobail
October 6, 2008 | 2:05 PM

Is it right to the children of Palestine to live in peace
Is it right that the children of Palestine enjoy freedom
Is it right to play the children of Palestine
Is it right that the children of Palestine Idabwa to school
Two machine to the rights of the child where you
Adham
The occupied territories
matter محمد مطر
October 7, 2008 | 6:23 AM
مساعي اسرائيل

عارضت إسرائيل المبادرة العربية التي أعلنت في قمة بيروت فور إطلاقها، ورفض إسرائيل جاء في حينه بشكل عفوي، كعادتها في رفض أية مبادرة عربية أو غير عربية تتعلق بالصراع القائم في الشرق الأوسط، إذا لم تكن هي القائمة على إخراجها، وكانت الحجة في حينه أن قرار الأمم المتحدة 194 (الذي يمنح الفلسطينيين حق العودة) موجود فيها.

ومع ذلك، وبعد مضي حوالي خمس سنوات على هذه المبادرة، نرى أن هناك اهتماماً غير عادي بها، على الرغم من الفشل العربي في تسويقها عالمياً في حينه، كمبادرة سلام مقبولة لدى جميع العرب. ومن تابع المقالات المستمرة التي تنشر في الصحف الإسرائيلية، وما يصدر عن قادة الكيان من تصريحات، يلاحظ أن التركيز الأساسي على بند واحد وهو "حق العودة".

ويبدو أن لدى إسرائيل معلومات تؤكد أنه في حالة مناقشة القمة العربية القادمة في الرياض لهذه المبادرة والتصديق عليها مجدداً من دون بند حق العودة، فإن ذلك سيعطي أمريكا زخماً لتحريك عملية السلام حسب المطالب الإسرائيلية.


* المحور الأول: الفصل بين المبادرة السعودية الأصلية والمبادرة التي تبنتها القمة العربية في بيروت، بزعم أن العرب أضافوا بند حق العودة، كما صرحت بذلك وزيرة خارجية إسرائيل.

* المحور الثاني: الإشارة الى كل ما هو فلسطيني بأنه إرهابي، خصوصاً بعد أن أعلن عن قيام حكومة الوحدة الوطنية، والتي رفضت إسرائيل فوراً التعامل معها أو الاعتراف بها، وطالبت المجتمع الدولي بألا يعترف بهذه الحكومة إلا إذا قبلت مطالب الرباعية الداعية الى الاعتراف بإسرائيل وإدانة الإرهاب.
matter محمد مطر
October 7, 2008 | 6:25 AM
The principles of imperialism
The fact is that what the aim of Israel from this position, is typically driven by the imposition of further concessions to the Arabs and gradual to avoid a real peace process without advancing any project is giving the Palestinians their rights and without any implementation of the commitments and treaties and resolutions that have already been taken in the interest of the Palestinian people .

Arabs claim that amendments to the Arab initiative is a step of the Israel malign, in an attempt to hit wedge between the Arab countries.

Israel's insistence on the abolition of the "right of return" and continuous attempts to cancel Resolution 194 issued by the United Nations General Assembly (as happened with the resolution, which is a form of Zionist racism), is a purely ideological position.

Israel can not recognize or accept the right of return, because that would mean the recognition of the Palestinian Arab land, which would be incompatible with the principles of Zionism, which says the land of Palestine of the Jews only, and thus the acceptance of the right of return completely undermines the Zionist thought, and the principles upon which the imperial state . Even when Israel spoke of the possibility of accepting some Palestinian refugees to hasten to say that it would accept the scope of "family reunification" and not as them
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