Erekat: Abu Mazen turned down the offer
'Palestinian' chief Palestinian Chief Negotiator Saeb Ereqat reveals that PA President Mahmoud 'Abbas refused an offer by the former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert to establish an independent Palestinian on an area equal in size to the West Bank and Gaza, with a 6.5% land swap to accommodate the settlement blocs.But they're going to reach an agreement on borders within three months. Tell me about it....
Ereqat said that the late Palestinian president Yasser Arafat had instructed him to uphold the Palestinians' full rights, including their right to all the West Bank and Gaza, as well as Jerusalem, 37 kilometers of dead sea coast, 46 kilometers of no man's land between Latrun and Jerusalem, the right of return for the refugees and a safe passage between the West Bank and Gaza. Ereqat added that 'Abbas had given him similar instructions, and emphasized that no Palestinian would give up these rights. If Israel rejects the two-state solution based on the 1967 borders, he concluded, it will be left only with the option of a bi-national state.
Labels: Ehud K. Olmert, Mahmoud Abbas, Saeb Erekat, Yasser Arafat
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:08 AM
2 Comments:
Hamas/Gaza and the right of return need to be discussed before borders. I can't see how there can ever be a deal allowing the Palestinians the right of return. Short of the US and the PA going into Gaza and destroying hamas, I see no answer to this problem. But they can't just ignore these two problems or can they?
Good luck with reaching agreement on borders within three months. The Palestinians want Israel to consent to a total freeze and for a lot longer than three months.
I will be surprised if an agreement would be reached before a freeze would end assuming the Palestinians return to the table.
Bottom line: the Olmert offer wasn't good enough for them and its highly unlikely they'd accept something better from Netanyahu.
What could go wrong indeed
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