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DuctapeFatwa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-03 12:26 AM
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The Appropriate Palestinian 5-Point Response To Sharon's Threat

The Palestinians should confront Israel with threats rather than continue to make compromises if they want to end the occupation and regain their sovereignty. This threat should be made official demanding a meeting with the Prime Minister in the presence of politicians where the meeting will be publicly broadcasted and focusing on the following points:

1- Adopting a political settlement to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict based on the two-state solution.

2- This state should be independent and based according to the 1967 lines. Anything less wouldn't be approved by the Palestinians.

3- The deadline given to Israel to decide if it is willing to end this conflict based on such solution is only six months. Israel should also prove its determination to end this conflict by stopping the construction of the wall and the settlement operations...

4- If Israel is does not comply with such compromise, then this ends any chances for the two-state solution...

5- In order to move towards the option of one state imposed by Israel, the Palestinian side will dissolve the Palestinian Authority at the end of the time limit, leaving Israel fully responsible for all the outcomes of its Palestinian occupation and the deterioration of the situation.

Israel should be aware that the option of one state will launch the political effect for the demographic factor and it should tolerate the expected results to that. Either the separation based on the solution of establishing an independent state on the 1967 occupied Palestinian land or to lose what it is working very hard for which is the Judaism of the Jewish state.

http://www.aljazeerah.info/29%20o/The%20Appropriate%20Palestinian%205-Point%20Response%20To%20Sharon's%20Threat%20By%20Ali%20Al%20Jarbawi.htm

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Gimel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-03 01:02 AM
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1. "Plan"
No security arrangements accompany this so-called "plan" and therefore it will never be endorsed. The continued attacks on Israel are the largest impediment to peace in the region.
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newyorican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-03 01:39 AM
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2. I don't think it's meant to be endorsed...
as it appears to be a unilateral response to unilateral actions.
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Gimel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-03 01:48 AM
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4. Their ultimatum
Yeah, what else is new.
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Muddleoftheroad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-03 01:39 AM
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3. The Israeli response
Here is how I would respond to your response:

1- Great. I support that, but as we both know the devil is in the details.

2- Yes, the state should be independent, but the 1967 lines are for 1967, this is 2003. If you think you will get Jerusalem, you are wrong. However, you also want to negotiate a ton of other things -- water rights, the entire border, the ability to enter Israel, air travel, travel between Gaza and the West Bank, etc. -- based on the Geneva proposal, so we should be able to work out other stuff. But if you are dogmatic, you will lose.

3- The return deadline is as soon as we finish the wall, we end discussions until you have new leadership at that point.

4- If the Palestinians don't agree to negotiate and automatically give up Jerusalem AND the Right of Return, then we won't negotiate. Once the wall is in place, those conditions along with immediate and public recognition of Israel would be PRE-conditions to any negotiations.

5- Go ahead and dissolve the Palestinian Authority. We will wall you off from us and let you go on your merry way.

Have a nice day.

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sistersofmercy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-03 01:50 AM
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5. Sounds good to me!
But the warmongering Sharon will never agree, hopefully the Israelis will vote him out next time around.
I often wonder what could be possible if Rabin had not been assasinated. Ah, all those what ifs!
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undergroundrailroad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-03 02:38 AM
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6. Locking per I/P Guidelines
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