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Nov. 15, 2013
Daily summary - Friday, November 15, 2013
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Main News
TODAY MARKS 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF PALESTINE’S DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
Today, November 15 marks the 25th anniversary of the declaration of independence for Palestine made by late President Yasser Arafat in Algiers. (Al Quds)
SETTLERS ATTACK BURIN AND BURN DOWN A HOME IN SINJIL, WOUNDING FIVE CHILDREN AND THEIR FATHER
The Israeli army yesterday carried out raids and arrests in addition to shelling in Gaza in tandem with escalated attacks by settlers, including the burning down of a home in Sinjil. Several children suffered smoke inhalation. The village of Burin was also attacked by settlers with backup from the Israeli army. According to the prisoners’ club, 11 people were arrested in the Hebron district as well yesterday. Four others were arrested in Beit Awwa. Three other people were arrested in Nablus area.
In Sinjil, five children and their father suffered from smoke inhalation when Israeli settlers set fire to their home. The family had escaped to the rooftop after settlers broke the windows of their home and threw firebombs inside. Two civil defense men were also wounded in the rescue operation. The settlers scrolled “Greetings from Aiden” on the house, in reference to the Israeli soldier stabbed and killed in Afoula on Wednesday.
In Gaza, Israeli forces launched two airstrikes on the Strip after rockets were fired into Israel after an Israeli incursion. Eyewitnesses said the two strikes targeted the Zeitun neighborhood and the northern Gaza Strip, without any injuries. (Al Quds)
ISRAEL ARRESTS TWO PEOPLE ON CHARGES OF KILLING RETIRED ISRAELI OFFICE IN JORDAN VALLEY
Israel’s internal security services, the Shabak, said yesterday in a statement that two Palestinians had been arrested who had attacked and killed a retired Israeli officer in the settlement of Barush Habokah in the Jordan Valley last month. They said 18-year old Odeh Fareed Hroub and Bashir Huroub from Beir Samet in the Hebron district were arrested for killing the officer. According to the Shabak, the two Palestinians said they had originally planned a burglary but when they found out it was the home of an Israeli officer, they decided to give a ‘gift to the Palestinians and to the prisoners” After the attack, the two fled to Al Ram where they were helped by a friend, who was also arrested (Al Ayyam)
UN ADOPTS WITH OVERWHELMING MAJORITY, EIGHT DRAFT RESOLUTIONS ON PALESTINE
The special political and ending colonialism committee of the UN General Assembly adopted yesterday with an overwhelming majority, eight draft resolutions on Palestine. The resolutions pertained to UNRWA and to the special article in the committee on investigations of Israeli measures that impinge on Palestinian human rights and the rights of other Arab residents in the occupied territories. The UNRWA resolutions were to offer aid to Palestinian refugees with a majority vote of 165 countries; a resolution pertaining to displaced persons during the 1967 war and subsequent conflicts, with 162 votes in favor; resolution on UNRWA operations with 164 in favor; resolution on properties and revenues from them belonging to Palestinian refugees, by 163 votes. The UNRWA resolutions all pointed to the living conditions and the difficult economic, social and humanitarian conditions faced by refugees in the occupied Palestinian territories, especially in the Gaza Strip due to Israeli aggression and the siege imposed on it.
As for the resolutions pertaining to investigation into Israeli measures the impinge on human rights, they were the following:
A resolution on the activities of the special committee, with a vote of 88 in favor; resolution on the application of the Geneva accords pertaining to the protection of civilians at a time of war in the Palestinian territories including East Jerusalem and the other occupied Arab lands. 160 countries voted in favor; resolution on Israeli settlements including in East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, with a majority vote of 158; resolution on Israeli measures that impinge on the human rights of the Palestinian people in the occupied territories including east Jerusalem, with a vote of 156.The resolutions reaffirmed the illegality of Israeli settlements, including in Jerusalem. (http://maannews.net/arb/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=647573)
EREKAT: THE LEADERSHIP IS COMMITTED TO NEGOTIATING WITH ISRAEL
Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said yesterday that the Palestinian leadership was committed to negotiating with Israel based on its conviction of the importance of achieving a just and comprehensive peace, in spite of the crimes committed by Netanyahu’s government against the Palestinian people and land. Erekat made his statements during a meeting with Dutch senator Tene Cox in Ramallah. Erekat told him that Israel had killed several Palestinians throughout the course of the negotiations and had demolished several homes, especially in East Jerusalem, all which reconfirm the Palestinians’ lack of rust in the current occupation government, which he said was killing any hope of achieving peace. (http://maannews.net/arb/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=647557). According to Al Ayyam, Erekat said yesterday that the issue of their resignation was still ‘under discussion”, stressing that the Palestinians wanted peace and did not want to undermine the talks or peace efforts. He said that at this point, the only thing that was progressing was Israeli settlements and not the two-state solution. In statements he made to Israel’s Channel Two, Erekat said that he “wanted to negotiate, not be dictated to,” adding that the real negotiations were between Netanyahu, Uri Ariel, Moshe Yaalon and Avigdor Lieberman. (Al Ayyam)
LIVNI: THE RESIGNATION OF NEGOTIATORS IS A BREACH OF AGREEMENTS AND UNDERSTANDINGS
Israel described the resignation of the Palestinian negotiating team yesterday as a ‘breach” of the understandings that revived the peace talks. Head of the Israeli negotiating team Tzipi Livni said that these resignations were a breach of promises made by the Palestinians. In statements made to Israel Army Radio, Livni said she “expected that they [Palestinians] do not take advantage of every opportunity to create a scene and halt negotiations.” Earlier however, Livni put the blame on her coalition partner for creating the most recent crisis in the negotiations, accusing him of trying to sabotage the negotiations. (Al Ayyam)
ISRAEL TO RETURN HUMAN ORGANS TAKEN FROM PALESTINIAN MARTYRSTO TREAT ISRAELI SOLDIERS
According to information received by Al Quds Al Arabi, Israel will hand over to the Palestinians, in addition to the bodies of martyrs, organs taken from these martyrs’ bodies illegally to treat Israeli soldiers. The organs, which were used by the Israeli forensics institute, include corneas, skin and other parts. The organs will be part of the handover of 36 bodies of martyrs Israel is holding in the cemetery of numbers. Hussein Al Sheikh, minister of civil affairs, said Israel would hand over the parts of the martyrs “soon” which were stolen during autopsies in the forensic institute Abu Kbir. (http://www.alquds.co.uk/?p=103646)
ISRAELI MINISTER CALLS FOR EXECUTING PALESTINIANS WHO KILL ISRAELIS
An Israeli minister called on Thursday for the death penalty to be handed down to Palestinians who carry out operations that kill Israelis, following the death of an Israeli soldier at the hands of a Palestinian boy in Afoula on Wednesday. Israel’s Channel 10 brought Israeli social affairs minister Meir Cohen last night saying he supported the death penalty against those he called “Palestinian terrorists”, including cases like the Palestinian teen. He said a law should be passed on this issue, which he said must be “dramatic”. The minister, from the Yesh Atid Party, also said it was in Israel’s interest to have a Palestinian state with complete economic and political sovereignty, which could provide job opportunities in the West Bank for Palestinians so there would be no justification for allowing them to enter Israeli territory. “It is clear, that in the end, we must separate from them,” he said. (http://www.alquds.co.uk/?p=103558)
PALESTINIAN FACTIONS IN GAZA: RESISTANCE IS OUR STRATEGIC OPTION
Palestinian factions said yesterday that the resistance in all its forms, first and foremost armed resistance, was the strategic option capable of deterring Israel. At the same time, Hamas’ military wing, Izzedin Al Qassam took to the streets in a military parade, showcasing their homemade M-75 rockets. Thousands of Qassam leaders and members marched on the first anniversary of Israel’s Operation Pillar of Defense during which they showed the rocket, which they said could reach as far as 75 kilometers. (http://alhayat.com/Details/572128)
NETANYAHU SUPPORTS PLAN TO BUILD A JEWISH PARK BETWEEN TUR AND ESSAWIYEH
Israeli sources revealed yesterday that the Israeli government ordered the building of a national park on the Masharef hilltops between the Jerusalem areas of Tur and Essawiyeh, in a bid to halt any Palestinian construction in that area. According to Haaretz, at the end of September, a recording of the Israel nature authority admitted that the purpose of the park was to stymie Palestinian growth and not for nature preservation. Amir Peretz, minister of the environment, is said to have opposed the plan, given that it has no natural significance, but that the prime minister’s office pushed for it and is planning to carry it out in cooperation with the Jerusalem municipality and the Jerusalem development authority along with the nature authority. (Al Ayyam). Netanyahu gave instructions to expedite the approval of the park; he also advised that settlement construction should be carried out ‘wisely” to avoid the anger of the world. According to settlements expert Khalil Tujakji, Israel is now carrying out a settlement plan that was approved in 1979 for housing one million settlers in the West Bank in addition to another plan approved in 1994 to complete the construction of 58,000 settlement units in East Jerusalem by 2020. (Al Hayat Al Jadida)
FACTSHEET: ELECTRICITY CUT IS ESCALATING HUMAN RIGHTS CRISIS IN THE GAZA STRIP
A factsheet published by the Mezan Center for Human Rights yesterday said that the power cut had escalated the human rights crisis in the Gaza Strip. The sheet was aimed at showing the impact of the power cuts on the Strip, which reach 18 hours a day. The impacts have been detrimental to human rights, in particular economic and social rights, which are already in deterioration there. The factsheet highlighted the health aspects of the crisis, especially for ill Gazans who need special care and are hooked up to machines 24 hours a day. The factsheet said the impact would be on blood banks, refrigerators for children’s vaccinations and coolers for medicines including ER equipment and so on. The power cut is also having a negative effect on the psychological state of children in Gaza in addition to water and sewage services, with sewage water flooding several homes. Education has also been hit by the power crisis. (Al Quds)
ISRAELI OCCUPATION FORCES ARREST 70 WORKERS INSIDE ISRAEL
Israeli police announced last night that it had arrested 70 Palestinian inside the Green Line under the pretext that they had entered Israel without a work permit. According to WAFA the arrests were made in Shefa Amr, Kufer Manda, Ailabout, and Taoun, saying that 64 would be sent back to the West Bank and four would remain under arrest. Directives were given yesterday by Israel’s chief of police to arrest any Palestinian who does not have a work permit inside Israel. (http://safa.ps/details/news/116092/الاحتلال-يعتقل-70-عاملا-في-أراضي-الـ48.html)
SAADAT: THE RISK OF DEATH THREATENING SEVERAL SICK PRISONERS
The PFLP’s Secretary General Ahmad Saadat warned yesterday from the Shatta prison against the tragic circumstances of sick Palestinian prisoners inside Israeli jails, who he said were faced with medical negligence by Israeli prison services. Saadat called for urgent intervention to save the lives of hundreds of prisoners, saying some were gravely ill. He expressed his anger at what he said was the ‘silence and absence” of human rights organizations in saving these prisoners’ lives. Saadat also addressed the issue of negotiations, calling them ‘political suicide.: (Al Quds)
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Headlines
*Israeli forces cut down more than 100 olive trees in Yabad (Al Ayyam)
*Amnesty International: Israel never initiative any criminal investigation after war on Gaza (Al Ayyam)
*Arafat accepted the two0sat solution in 1977 but did not trust Sadat; wanted to directly contact Washington (Al Ayyam)
*Israel continues its campaign against Kerry; possible nuclear agreement with Iran (Al Ayyam)
*The President: We are determined to establish our independent state and will cling to this land (Al Ayyam)
*Qassam brigades operative dies in Gaza (Al Quds)
*Israeli embassy adds Bethlehem to list of Israeli tourist cities (Al Quds)
*government demanded to open investigation into arrest and attacks on journalists (Al Quds)
*Security campaign continues in Al Ram (Al Quds)
*Hamdallah: we are working to prepare international tenders to extract oil from Rantis (Al Hayat Al Jadida)
*Citizen dresses up as lawyer, shoots defendant inside Nablus courtroom (Al Hayat Al Jadida)
*Natsheh: Jordanian court ordered extradition of man wanted by the anti-corruption commission on charges of embezzling NIS43 million (Al Hayat Al Jadida)
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Front Page Photos
Al- Quds:1) Ramallah: scene from burned home of Khaled Khalil in Sinjil burned by settlers with racist graffiti written on it.
Al-Ayyam:1) Citizen points to his home, burned by settlers in Sinjil; 2) Al Sisi shakes hands with his Russian counterpart upon his arrival in Cairo
Al Hayat Al Jadida:1) A mother and her child who survived crime of settlers in Sinjil; 2) the President, during his meeting in Ramallah with solidarity delegation; 3) Olive trees in Yaabad cut down by Israeli soldiers
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More Headlines
Activists bring down a section of the wall and destroy dozens of meters of barbed wire
A group of popular resistance activists tore down a section of the separation wall this morning estimated at around 10 meters, near the town of Bir Nabala northwest of Jerusalem. According to activist in the anti-wall and settlements committee Abdallah Abu Rahmeh, dozens of activists entered the opening in the wall from the other side, which connects with Jerusalem. He also said that another group was able to cut dozens of meters of barbed wire around Ofer prison near the village of Rafat, raising Palestinian flags over the areas of the torn down wall. Barbed wire was also cut in the village of Bilin last night, where protesters undid the gate and moved it to the center of the village. One participant, who refused to give his name, said the activities were part of the popular committee’s aim of causing financial damage to the occupation and showing creative ways of popular resistance. (http://maannews.net/arb/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=647600)
Gaza: Qassam Brigades operative killed in a “military operation”
A medical source from the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City said yesterday that Fouad Al Seiqli, 23, died from a gunshot wound after reaching the hospital in critical condition. The Izzedin Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, said later that Seiqli was one of its operatives and had been killed during a military mission, without offering any details. (Al Ayyam)
Israeli embassy places Bethlehem on list of Israeli tourist sites
The Israeli embassy in Italy added Bethlehem and other Palestinian tourist sites to its list of Israeli tourist cities in an advertisement it sent out through tourist agencies. In the advertisement the Israeli tourism office also mentioned that Israel had a ‘vast group of unique sites” including the old construction in Yaffa, Nazareth, Jerusalem, Tiberius, Bethlehem, the Dead Sea and others. (Al Quds)
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Arab Press
Palestinians play resignation card to protest Israeli settlements
By: Daoud Kuttab
Ever since the Palestinian-Israeli peace talks began this summer, Palestinian negotiators have found themselves without one of their strongest negotiating weapons: the ability to walk out of the talks.
The current peace talks began without the Israelis agreeing on two basic conditions: the suspension of settlement building in Palestinian areas and a clear reference point for the talks. While these conditions were not directly accepted by Israel, the United States guaranteed that the 1967 borders would be the basic reference point of the border discussions. On the settlements, the Palestinians were assured by the United States that Israel would not build any outside the settlement blocks that Israelis hope would be annexed to Israel.
On both these issues, Israel appears to have reneged and the Palestinian side was put in a corner. If the Palestinians walk out of the talks for this violation of the understanding communicated by the United States, the Israelis would stop the process of staggered prisoner releases. Israel has committed to releasing 104 Palestinians imprisoned since before the 1993 signing of the Oslo Accords in accordance with the 1999 Sharm el-Sheikh agreement.
Furthermore, US Secretary of State John Kerry announced during a joint press interview with Palestinian and Israeli journalists that the quid pro quo for the prisoner release was a Palestinian commitment to not seek any further membership as a state in UN agencies. The Israelis have alluded to and have in fact acted on their own claim that they can add new Jewish settlements in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, each time they release prisoners. This has happened twice already following the release of 52 prisoners so far in August and in October. The Palestinians are hoping that the remaining 52 prisoners will be released as agreed upon in stages within the next few months.
What exacerbated the situation even further was an announcement by right-wing Israeli Housing Minister Uri Ariel to add hundreds of thousands of new settlements, including in the disputed E1 area that connected north and south of the West Bank, just east of Jerusalem.
Following this announcement, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas cut short a regional visit that was supposed to include Saudi Arabia and returned to Ramallah to head an emergency meeting of Palestinian leaders.
Caught without a credible negotiating weapon, Palestinians have come up with a partial solution. Palestinian negotiators Saeb Erekat and Mohammad Shtayyeh submitted their resignations to Abbas in protest of the Israeli actions. The announcement was followed Nov. 13 by Abbas' confirmation of the resignations and that the talks would be delayed, but not stopped, as the issue of the resignations is discussed and a new team of negotiators is found.
The resignation of the negotiators appears to have produced a temporary result. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is involved in a tough war of words with the US administration over the Iranian nuclear talks, ordered his housing minister to withdraw the decision, stressing that Israel can't afford to divert attention from Iran.
It is unclear now whether the Palestinian team will accept this Israeli retraction and continue the talks, or if a new team will be found. Some critics have pointed out that this is not the first time Erekat has resigned and then returned to talks.
A change of the negotiating team could have both positive and negative results. Introducing individuals with fresh ideas and perspectives can shake up the talks. However, such a move can have negative effects in that it can result in some loss of trust between negotiators and the institutional memory that the current negotiators can have on the talks.(http://www.amin.org/articles.php?t=ENews&id=4296)
Why should Palestinians negotiate?
by Ahmad Y. Majdoubeh
The withdrawal of the Palestinian negotiating team from the US-sponsored peace talks with Israelis is more than justified. Israel has made it impossible for them to continue.
The current Israeli government is not serious about peace; actually it is doing all it can to subvert the fragile peace talks and impose its expansionist, Judaisation agenda in Palestine.
If the Israeli government had been genuinely interested in making peace, it would have done several things. For example, it would have stopped all settlement activity at once to give the peace negotiators a chance and would have made focus on peace a priority.
It, however, is doing the exact opposite. Since the start of the latest round of peace talks, the Israeli government sped up settlement activity. The latest move by the Israeli prime minister to halt — not to cancel — a plan for a huge settlement project is another of his endless gimmicks.
The reason he gave for halting this project, which would affect the peace talks and the future relations and existence of Israelis and Palestinians, was that it could anger the international community and thus affect Israel’s proposals regarding Iran!!
What a misguided, disrespectful thing to say when the Palestinians have joined peace talks even though they made clear that settlements should be halted until they come to an agreement with Israel about the future borders of a Palestinian state.
In other words, the Israeli premier would halt settlement activity to give a chance to his weird, paranoid proposals regarding Iran, but he would not do it for the sake of talks which are crucial to both Israelis and Palestinians.
Iran, of course, is another gimmick used in a delaying tactic.
The direct threat to Israeli and Palestinian existence — and, in fact, to the existence of all peoples in the region — is the absence of peace in Palestine. It is not the Iranian nuclear project.
And yet, the Israeli government is creating much fuss about the Iranian project to focus attention away from peace making in Palestine and sideline, and thus subvert, the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.
The timing here is crucial. Had Iran been threatening Israel with a nuclear bomb, or had Iran come even close to producing one, the Israeli government may have had an excuse for devoting so much energy and attention to Iran. At this moment in time, however, the Israeli obsession with the Iranian issue is utterly unjustified.
For one thing, the new Iranian leadership is negotiating in earnest with the international community about inspection of its nuclear facilities; for another, American diplomacy regarding the Iranian issue appears to be bearing fruit.
In fact, the US secretary of state announced a couple of days ago that an agreement with Iran is imminent.
Furthermore, the current Iranian government is no longer provocative or hostile to Israel, as some were in the past.
So, why should the Israeli government choose to create a huge fuss about Iran now?
The only answer is that it wants to distract the focus from the peace talks.
The fact of the matter is that the Israeli government does not want peace. It only wants all the Palestinian land.
So, why should the Palestinians continue to sit uselessly and fruitlessly at the negotiating table with the Israelis when the Israeli government continues to sabotage peace?
The reason they sit and negotiate — and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he will try to form another negotiating team — is that they have an inalienable right to an independent Palestinian state in their homeland Palestine.
And because the international community — including Europe and the US — insists that there should be justice in Palestine and that the Palestinians are entitled to their state on land that Israel has occupied and continues to swallow.
The European and American positions on Palestinian statehood and on Israel’s illegal settlement are highly appreciated. However, one expects them to close the loop by pressuring the Israeli government to stay focused on peace in Palestine and take concrete measures to show that it is serious about peace, including, first and foremost, immediately halting all settlement plans and activities.
Without such a firm position, it would be useless for the Palestinians to continue sitting at the negotiating table, while the Israeli premier is playing his games and sanctioning further settlement and occupation measures.(http://jordantimes.com/why-should-palestinians-negotiate)
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Opinions
Absurd negotiations
Al Khaleej Editorial
The current negotiations between the PA and the ‘Zionist entity” are futile and absurd, with no future. Proof of this is the recent resignation of the Palestinian negotiating team, who reached the conviction that Israel is not negotiating but evading. Negotiations have principles and foundations, the first being clear points of reference. Another point is that the maximum positions of both sides are clear so that they can be negotiated over and therefore reach a point of agreement that could make a solution possible.
The first is completely absent. There is no real reference except for the shady and expired Oslo accords. As for positions, there is only one position, which is the Palestinians’ and which declares that they want to establish a state along the ’67 borders with Jerusalem as its capital and with the return of refugees. This is the Palestinians’ maximum position and it should somehow been limited to that so that they could reach it. Still, Israel has not yet declared a position till today even if they create them anyway.
Their position is created by Israel’s institutions, which confiscate land, build settlements, besiege Jerusalem, threaten Al Aqsa and take resources. This is not a position for negotiations but a determination of the status. In determining this status, it is benefiting from different elements in the negotiations which give it a good cover for creating the status it wants. It builds, takes over and violations all while the negotiations continue. When Israel sits at the negotiating table, it does not listen to what the Palestinian negotiator has to say but forgoes listening for the sake of the machinery building settlements on occupied land.
This reality Israel is creating is being helped along in one way or another by American money and policies. The American sponsor not only does nothing to push Israel into declaring a position, it rushes to modify its own positions so they are in line with the Israeli aggressor. Israel creates facts on the ground while Palestinians sit and point fingers of accusation at one another. What better fertile ground could Israel have than for the Palestinians to be preoccupied with themselves, licking their wounds which they do not heal but make worse? Meanwhile, Israel frolics as it pleases in the Palestinian territories, rested assure that the Arabs can barely see beyond their own dysfunctional situations and problems.
The Palestinian negotiator, therefore, goes into these negotiations naked, stripped of any clothes of power. The Israelis, meanwhile, have hopped on the train of negotiations to use them for their own purposes of devouring more land and creating facts on the ground. Negotiations with no clear horizon are not negotiations at all. They even become dangerous when one side makes these negotiations a catalyst for its own objectives.
In order for the Palestinians to wear these ‘clothes of power” there should be one “Palestinian side” not two. The Arab bleeding must also be stopped and the huge Arab rift, mended. (http://www.alkhaleej.ae/studiesandopinions/detailedpage/dd6e075b-36f8-448e-adeb-f01f1055853c)
Settlements again!
By Sameeh Shbeib
The resumption of Palestinian-Israeli negotiations was in order to give them another chance within the course of the lengthy negotiations that have not yielded any specific or tangible results. The real and main reason for this is the continued settlement construction and the takeover of more Palestinian land, threatening the project of peace entirely. This has also created realities that have effectively prevented the establishment of any Palestinian state.
The negotiations were halted for over a year and a half and were resumed because of American-European-Arab efforts, to which the Palestinians heeded on the basis that they would give it another shot, perhaps the last, to reach a comprehensive solution. The solution, of course would have to be just and guarantee the achievement of Palestinian national goals in establishing their sovereign state on all lands that Israel occupied on June 5, 1967.
The Israelis began evading the issues from the start, whether in terms of borders or international terms of reference. What was even more dangerous, and which was clear to all was that the use of settlements weapons and continuing with it in order to destroy the negotiations, was done in direct defiance of American will and determination.
The Palestinians declared that the continuation of settlements contradicts with any serious efforts to reach a peace deal, and the announcement of settlement tenders at specific times, was aimed at striking a blow at the peace process and foiling American efforts to push it forward. Based on this, President Mahmoud Abbas announced clearly that the continuation of the settlement project would necessitate the halt of the negotiation process given that they would render it futile and a waste of time. Halting them would hence be more productive than continuing them, he said. Abbas was serious and going to UN institutions is also a very serious matter.
The United States did put noticeable pressure on Israel to halt the latest settlement projects. Naturally, Israel had to respond, thus giving a clear message that the US is capable of pressuring Israel if it wants. There are enough cases in history that point to this fact.
Now, things are much clearer. The regional and international scene indicates that if Israel completely blows apart these negotiations, there are signs of a new stage beginning to form on the horizon.
This will be a stage in which the state of Palestine plays a prominent role and will be able to reintroduce the Palestinian cause to the UN General Assembly, opening the door wide for international intervention in this cause; it has gone on for too long because of Israel’s policies, based on aggression, expansion and racism. (Al Ayyam)
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