Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Kerry's Middle East Proposals Shot Down By The PLO. We Will Now See The Pressure Being Placed On Israel To Accept The Palestinian Program Including Jerusalem Being Its Capital. Will Israel Cave? Will Kerry Drop The "Total Isolation" Option On Israel. We Should Know By January 15, 2014.

PLO: Palestinians won't accept current proposals from Israel

Khaled Abu Toameh - The Jerusalem Post,  December 9th, 2013



Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount
(Photo: Ilan Evyatar)
The Palestinians can’t accept any proposals or plans like the ones that are being suggested today; that solidify occupation and legalize the division of the Palestinian territories, the PLO Executive Committee announced Sunday.
The announcement, which was issued to mark the 26th anniversary of the first intifada that began in 1987, was referring to recent security arrangements between Israel and the Palestinians, as proposed by US Secretary of State John Kerry.
The PLO warned that there could be no deal with Israel that excludes the Jordan Valley, and Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state.
The PLO also expressed opposition to the presence of any settlement blocs in the West Bank in the context of a future deal with Israel. “We can’t accept that the airspace, borders and border crossings remain under the control of the occupiers,” the PLO said. [And Israel can't accept indefensible borders.]
Meanwhile, the ruling Fatah faction – the PLO’s largest group – vowed to pursue “popular resistance” against Israel until Palestinians fulfill their rights.
Saying that it had created the term intifada, Fatah referred to the first uprising as the “stone intifada.”
“Fatah has consolidated the popular uprising as a program for struggling against occupation and settlements,” the faction said in a statement. “Popular resistance is a natural extension to the struggle of our people.”
It said that while it would pursue the path of “popular resistance,” Fatah would continue to work politically in the international arena to achieve the goals of the Palestinians.

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