KOREI SEEKS FULL ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CEASE-FIRE

[drdon326]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=574&ncid=721&e=1&u=/nm/20030909/wl_nm/mideast_dc

Palestinian parliament speaker Ahmed Korei, nominated by Arafat to replace Abbas, has delayed a decision on whether to accept the job, leaving the fate of the battered U.S.-backed "road map" peace plan in the balance.


Korei called for a cease-fire deal between the Palestinian Authority and Israel, rather than another unilateral truce by militants.


He said Palestinian leaders were committed to co-existence with Israel under the "road map," which outlines steps to end nearly three years of violence and create a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip (news - web sites) by 2005.

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"I have told the Americans, Arabs, Russians...everybody, that this situation cannot continue. I will not be under the Israeli dictate-- 'do this and don't do that'," he told Reuters.


He was referring to Israeli demands the Palestinian Authority crush militant groups, an obligation under the peace plan but a step which Palestinian officials say could sow civil war if Israel's army maintains its grip on Palestinian cities.

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what a sumabitch.....HE WONT DISMANTLE THE TERRORISTS.

Now hes trying to weasel out with HUDNA II.

[stopthegop]

1. "rather than another unilateral truce by militants"

I just love that...pay no attention to the exploding bus behind you...

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[drdon326]

3. Note: Yahoo changed the title......again !!

new title

Palestinian Suicide Bomber Kills Four in Israel

yahoo loves to keep changing title after its posted.

[rini]

4. sure he seeks a full cease fire

If pigs could fly

[Dem4EverMore]

5. It's about time

Now if Israel would just recognize that Hamas and those they defend have a right to the land Israel is squatting on then peace can begin.

[rini]

6. I presume you mean greater Israel but I give you this

MYTH

“Israel has no right to be in the West Bank. Israeli settlements are illegal.”

FACT

Jews have lived in Judea and Samaria — the West Bank — since ancient times. The only time Jews have been prohibited from living in the territories in recent decades was during Jordan's rule from 1948 to 1967. This prohibition was contrary to the Mandate for Palestine adopted by the League of Nations, which provided for the establishment of a Jewish state, and specifically encouraged "close settlement by Jews on the land."


Numerous legal authorities dispute the charge that settlements are "illegal." International law scholar Stephen Schwebel notes that a country acting in self-defense may seize and occupy territory when necessary to protect itself. Schwebel also observes that a state may require, as a condition for its withdrawal, security measures designed to ensure its citizens are not menaced again from that territory.1

According to Eugene Rostow, a former Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs in the Johnson Administration, Resolution 242 gives Israel a legal right to be in the West Bank. The resolution. Rostow noted, "allows Israel to administer the territories" it won in 1967 "until 'a just and lasting peace in the Middle East' is achieved," Rostow wrote.2

[StandWatie]

7. so what?

Jews live all over the world but that doesn't mean they automatically get to rule wherever they are. I actually think it would go a long way towards making peace if they opened up a sort of exchange program where Jews could immigrate to Palestine in exchange for Palestinians who want to return to their communities in Israel from '48 but if you are going to go you need to be a citizen of THAT country and not the other one.

[Violet_Crumble]

8. Here's a link to the biased site you pulled that from...

http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/myths/mf22a.html#j

Just curious, but why have I seen you demanding other people use credible sources when you don't do it yrself?

The claim that Israel's settlements in the Occupied Territories are legal has been well and truly refuted here before. I don't really think there's much point in people having to do it all over again...

Violet...