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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform a répondu le Fri 19 Dec, 2003 @ 4:02am |
 Coolness: 339775 | Israel plans own security border
The White House rejects any go-it-alone plan outside the peace 'road map'. DAN PERRY, AP 2003-12-19 03:35:14 HERZLIYA, ISRAEL -- Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said yesterday Israel will take steps on its own to set up a security border unless Palestinians move quickly toward peace. The move could lead in a matter of months to the relocation of some Jewish settlements, but also cost Palestinians land they want for a future state. The White House criticized any go-it-alone strategy by Israel to make changes in the West Bank and Gaza Strip if no headway is made on the "road map" peace plan to create a Palestinian state by 2005. "We would oppose any unilateral steps that block the road toward negotiations under the road map that led to this two-state vision," White House press secretary Scott McClellan said yesterday. "The United States believes that a settlement must be negotiated and we would oppose any effort -- any Israeli effort -- to impose a settlement." Sharon said Israel would speed up construction of a controversial security fence that cuts deep into the West Bank and use it to make a more easily defensible border with the Palestinians. "This reduction of friction will require the extremely difficult step of changing the deployment of some of the settlements," he said. The prime minister did not name any settlements that might be moved and did not make clear if they would be relocated inside occupied territory. The new policy, announced in a long-awaited speech at a security conference in the Tel Aviv suburb of Herzliya, is a sweeping change for Sharon, who was the architect of Israel's settlement policies in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. It also would be a major shift away from the policy of negotiating a settlement and would mean abandoning the U.S.-backed road map, which calls for incremental steps and negotiations leading to a Palestinian state by 2005. Sharon has turned to a unilateral approach involving the removal of some settlements after long months of paralysis in efforts to start negotiations. His popularity has plummeted and his government has come under intense pressure to take action to end three years of violence with the Palestinians that has left many Israelis living in fear and badly damaged the economy. Palestinians reacted with anger to Sharon's speech. "This is not a prescription for peace, this is a prescription for more war and more attacks and more isolation and more segregation against the Palestinian people," Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath said. Hamas, whose spiritual leader is Sheik Ahmed Yassin, as well as Islamic Jihad, have insisted Israel must meet a series of demands, including ending military operations. Hawkish members of Sharon's government and settler leaders denounced any pullback from West Bank settlements. Settler spokesperson Yehoshua Mor-Yosef called the speech a "plan of illusions that will escalate terror." The Palestinians and U.S. officials have harshly criticized Sharon's go-it-alone concept, which would not give the Palestinians as much territory in the West Bank and Gaza Strip as they seek or address other key Palestinian issues -- Jerusalem and refugees -- meant to be resolved in talks. The United States also has opposed the security barrier, which Israel says is needed to prevent militants from entering Israel and launching suicide attacks. The barrier is a snaking line of trenches, guard towers, fences and razor wire. The northern 145-kilometre section of the barrier has been completed. A recently approved 367-kilometre southern section lies within the West Bank and would isolate 274,000 Palestinians in tiny enclaves and block 400,000 others from their fields, jobs, schools and hospitals, according to a recent UN report. The final planned route could gobble up almost half the West Bank. Sharon said that under his plan, Israel would "greatly accelerate" construction of the fence. Sharon told the Herzliya security conference Israel remains committed to the U.S.-backed road map, but wanted Palestinians to began dismantling militant groups as required under the peace plan. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Trey a répondu le Fri 19 Dec, 2003 @ 6:40am |
 Coolness: 102875 | A older person (Nazi Third Reich) who beats a younger person (Israel, jews)... now that younger person growing up will beat on another person (palestinian)...
....The americans responsable for millions of Cambodia deaths during the Vietnam war....Khmer Rouge risen up and exterminated its own people.... ....and the human tradition continues on this little blue ball on ours in the grand scheme of the universe.... |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Zz.ee.vV a répondu le Fri 19 Dec, 2003 @ 9:13am |
 Coolness: 194135 | Theres much you people dont know about the situation but one thing is right, the Wall concept sucks buttocks and is bad for both arabs and jews. Plus its fucking costing israeli taxpayers and arm, leg AND their dog. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Purple_Lee a répondu le Fri 19 Dec, 2003 @ 10:54pm |
 Coolness: 238730 | and where does the cycle end? way too much hate in this world....sooo sad.
Lee |
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