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Monday, July 20, 2009

Olmert offered to 'internationalize' the Temple Mount

This is from an interview with 'moderate' 'Palestinian' President Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazen that was in the Egyptian magazine October (whose name perpetuates the delusion that the Egyptians won the October 1973 Yom Kippur War). Look at what he says soon-to-be-indicted former Prime Minister Ehud K. Olmert offered.
"Olmert said: 'I have an idea regarding the Holy Basin.' There is a difference between saying the Holy Basin and putting things on the [negotiating] table [that is, talking specifically about the entire area of the Holy Basin]. Olmert placed a proposal on the table and he spoke of the Haram [Al-Sharif], the Mount of Olives, and the cemetery, and said: 'All this area is the Holy Basin. We propose that it be overseen by an international committee.' [He said this] even though the idea of an international committee was proposed originally at Camp David and in the 1947 Partition Resolution. This is why I say that there is a difference between saying that this is the Haram and the Holy Basin, and that a commission should be established on this basis, and saying that only what is placed on the negotiating table is regarded as the Holy Basin. In the end, we did not agree on anything.
In other words, like Ehud Barak before him, Olmert proposed to give up control of the Temple Mount.

Despicable slime.

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 10:33 PM

3 Comments:

At 10:39 PM, Blogger Andre (Canada) said...

Come on...get with the program already. There is ample evidence that once Israel gives back Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, the Shebbah farms and the Golan, Arabs will immediately put their weapons down and sign a peace treaty. Just watch what happened in Gaza.
What? What are you saying? There is no such evidence?
Oops, sorry!

 
At 11:58 PM, Blogger Red Tulips said...

Carl,

I already told you that!

I heard it directly from the horse's mouth - Asaf Shariv, the NY Consul General.

He also offered 100% of the 'West Bank,' including a land bridge between Gaza and the 'West Bank,' and East Jerusalem. In addition, he offered a form of 'right of return' to Palestinians.

This was rejected without a counteroffer by Abbas the 'moderate.'

 
At 12:33 AM, Blogger NormanF said...

Yes - but this wasn't enough for the Palestinians. Anything short of Israel forfeiting its sovereignty over the whole of Jerusalem won't do - and certainly not to an international committee.

 

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