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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This is just the way this site's links do. Sometimes a nerd will notice it and fool with it. bemildred, are you here? :)

Or you can just go to aljazeerah.info and click their link. Or google it.

This site echoes from other papers, this article was in Al Hayat, which I don't have a url for. It is a different paper than Dar Al Hayat.

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 totally 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.

eastern part will be Palestinian. Deal with it...

it is the eastern part that would be divided...get a grip...

we'll see. Considering the Palestinians are denied the right of return, Israel will have to compensate that. Not only with money...

If you'll ever want peace, both sides will have to get a fair deal, not just Israel....

The biggest thing the Palestinians seem to want is statehood. Based on Palestinian past behavior and the long-standing conflict between the two groups, Israel agreeing to that is a major concession. Don't expect the Palestinians to get everything else they want.

There are an enormous number of other things both sides want and there is plenty of room to maneuver, but a couple things are constant:

* Israelis expect to keep Jerusalem.
* The Right of Return won't ever happen.
* Israel shouldn't pay one penny of reparations.

The Arab nations owe extensive reparations to Israel. If they want to pay that debt as part of a settlement, then THAT money can go to the Palestinians. If the UN, U.S., EU, Arab League or anybody else want to give money to a new Palestinian state, that is also great, as long as they know where it is going.