De Palestijnse regering van nationale eenheid die nu gevormd wordt, zal het bestaansrecht van Israël erkennen. Dat heeft de Palestijnse president Abbas tegen de Algemene Vergadering van de Verenigde Naties gezegd.
De Fatah-partij van Abbas onderhandelt met Hamas over een coalitie. Hamas heeft meteen na de woorden van Abbas gezegd dat van erkenning van Israël zeker geen sprake kan zijn. Hamas regeert alleen en heeft al meteen na de verkiezingen gezegd dat het geweld doorgaat.
Het gevolg was dat de Palestijnen internationaal geïsoleerd raakten. Er ontstond een economische crisis.
Bron: www.nos.nl (http://www.nos.nl/nos/artikelen/2006/09/art000001C6DDEA86A0F870.html)
Ik denk dat dit een goede stap in de richting is. Israel moet nu snel de leefomstandigheden van de Palestijnen verbeteren.
Good Kahuna
22-09-06, 09:28
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Ik denk dat dit een goede stap in de richting is. Israel moet nu snel de leefomstandigheden van de Palestijnen verbeteren.
Gloort er dan toch hoop?
_h4T3D_sE7eN
22-09-06, 09:28
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Hamas regeert alleen en heeft al meteen na de verkiezingen gezegd dat het geweld doorgaat.
Dit stukje heeft de redacteur van dit nieuwsbericht er zelf bijbedacht. Er is niets van waar.
Palestinian prime minister says he won't head a government that recognizes Israel
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By DIAA HADID=
Associated Press Writer=
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas said Friday he will not head a government that recognizes Israel, striking a potential blow to efforts set up a more moderate ruling coalition.
Haniyeh spoke after moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas indicated that a planned national unity government between Hamas and his Fatah movement would recognize the Jewish state.
An Abbas aide said Hamas would not be expected to issue a statement of recognition, but would be asked to recognize agreements signed by the Palestine Liberation Organization, including the PLO's mutual recognition agreement with Israel, reached in 1993. Abbas heads the PLO, in addition to Fatah.
It was not clear whether Hamas would accept such an arrangement, with implied recognition of Israel, or whether Hamas was backing out of a coalition agreement reached earlier this month.
In a mosque sermon in the Gaza town of Beit Lahiya on Friday, Haniyeh laid out his group's position.
I personally will not head any government that recognizes Israel, said Haniyeh, considered a leader of Hamas' more pragmatic wing.
Haniyeh said Hamas is ready to establish a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem, areas Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast War, and to honor a long-term truce with Israel. ½We support establishing a Palestinian state in the land of 1967 at this stage, but in return for a cease-fire, not recognition,+ Haniyeh said.
At the United Nations on Thursday, Abbas indicated that the planned national unity government between Hamas and his Fatah Party would recognize the Jewish state.
Fatah and Hamas officials said privately that it wasn't clear whether Abbas meant to solicit international support for the planned government, or set a new condition to forming a coalition with Hamas.
Abbas was still in New York on Friday, and couldn't be immediately reached for comment .
Hamas, which swept Palestinian parliamentary elections in January, currently rules alone. But Abbas, elected separately last year, has been toiling for months to broaden the government in the hope of easing crushing international sanctions imposed on the Hamas-led government to force it to soften its violent anti-Israel ideology.
Earlier this month, the two sides announced they would govern together, and strive to establish a Palestinian state alongside Israel an objective that implies recognition of the Jewish state.
But coalition talks have faltered because the West and Israel have balked at restoring hundreds of millions of dollars in funding until Hamas clearly states its willingness to recognize Israel, renounce violence and accept existing peace agreements between Israel and the Palestinians.
Abbas told a U.N. forum on Thursday that the national unity government would commit to all past agreements between the Palestinians and Israel, including letters exchanged by the two sides in 1993 that call for mutual recognition and the renunciation of violence.
In agreeing to form a coalition with Fatah, Hamas agreed to respect past agreements, but didn't commit to them, calling into question Abbas' ability to maneuver in any future peacemaking. Hamas is afraid that committing to past agreements would be tantamount to recognizing Israel, which it is sworn to destroy.
Israeli government spokeswoman Miri Eisin reiterated Israel's demand that any Palestinian government yield to the demands the international community has imposed.
In other news, unidentified gunmen set off a small bomb near Palestinian police guarding European Union monitors at the Egypt-Gaza border Friday, just after the vital crossing opened for the first time in a month, Palestinian officials said.
Two Palestinian policemen were injured, but none of the EU monitors was hurt, said Hatem Barhoum, a senior police official in Gaza.
Police responded first by firing into the air and then at the suspects, who were armed with automatic weapons, Barhoum said. A gunbattle raged for about 15 minutes, he said.
It was unclear how many gunmen there were, but all of them escaped, Barhoum added.
The incident took place inside the Gaza portion of the border terminal.
The Rafah crossing is the Gaza Strip's main gateway to the world, and is controlled by the Palestinian Authority and Egypt, with help from EU monitors. It has been shut down almost continuously since Hamas-linked militants captured an Israeli soldier on June 25 in a cross-border raid.
The passage opened early Friday for the first time since Aug. 25, and was to be open for two days so thousands of Palestinians could pass through en route to Saudi Arabia, to celebrate the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, said Hani Jabbour, a Palestinian diplomat speaking by telephone from inside the border terminal.
Some 1,500 Palestinians stranded in Egypt were also waiting to return home to Gaza, he said.
By mid-morning Friday, only one bus carrying some 50 Palestinians had crossed the border, Jabbour said.
Ah enige nuance... Niet alle Palestijnen zitten op dezelfde golflengte kennelijk.