Threat’s to the Palestinians? What’s Next!
Blair warns of 'different reality' unless Palestinians talk to Israel
Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair (L) greets Prime Minister of Israel, Ehud Olmert at 10 Downing Street in London. Olmert suggested that Blair had at least tacitly backed a plan to set unilaterally Israel's borders with the Palestinians in the West Bank.(AFP/John McHugh)
by Deborah Haynes
Jun 12, 2006
LONDON (AFP) -British Prime Minister Tony Blair warned of a "different reality" in the Middle East unless Israel and the Palestinians were able to negotiate an agreement on territory.
Blair, who held talks in London with his visiting Israeli counterpart, Ehud Olmert, said everyone favoured a negotiated settlement.
But such discussions would only take place if the Palestinians recognised the Jewish state's right to exist, renounced violence and agreed to follow the international "road map" for peace, he said.
Olmert is hoping to sell a plan of fixing Israel's borders with or without agreement of the Palestinians while on a trip to London and Paris.
He will have taken heart that Blair did not outwardly reject the proposal, which has received a cool reception from some leaders in the Middle East.
"I don't want to go down any other path than a negotiated settlement but the reality is that this thing has got to be moved forward by negotiation or we are in a stalemate that Israel is necessarily and realistically going to want to unlock," the British prime minister said.
"We, the international community, have got a choice. We either put our best effort into making sure that negotiated settlement becomes a reality or we are going to face a different reality," he said.
Olmert, who is on his first visit to Europe since being elected in March, said he would make "every possible effort" to negotiate with the Palestinians but warned that he would not talk to anyone who condones terrorism.
The Israeli premier also confirmed that he would be meeting Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas in "a few weeks".
"We prefer to have a negotiated deal. We will do everything possible in order to achieve that," Olmert said.
He emphasised the importance, however, that the Palestinians met the three basic principles for negotiations to occur.
Olmert warned: "One thing will not happen: a stalemate.
"Either we move in this direction and we make every possible effort or there will be another reality in the words of prime minister Blair and this reality is moving forward in order to change the present status quo in the Middle East."
He said his main goals were to separate Israel from the Palestinians, have a secure border, enjoy safety and security for all and enable the Palestinians to realise their dream of a Palestinian state.
Olmert's so-called "realignment plan" would see Israel uproot 70,000 settlers from the West Bank while cementing its hold on housing blocs where most of the quarter of a million settlers live.
The Israeli premier received a cool reception for his proposal in talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Jordan's King Abdullah II in the past week, with both men urging him not to make any unilateral moves.
US President George W. Bush has called the plan "bold" but has also told Olmert that he must first exhaust all efforts to reach an agreement with Abbas.
Tensions between Israel and the Palestinians were raised on Friday by the death of eight Palestinian civilians in an explosion on a beach in the northern Gaza Strip -- an incident that prompted Hamas to end an 18-month truce.
Asked whether Israel could kill Hamas ministers, Olmert told journalists accompanying him in London: "Whoever is implicated in terrorism cannot claim to have immunity."
Turning to other issues, Blair and Olmert said they talked about Iran, with the Israeli leader giving his full backing to efforts by the international community to end the stand-off over Tehran's disputed nuclear policy.
Olmert is due to hold talks with British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett and Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown on Tuesday.
He then travels to Paris to meet French President Jaques Chirac and Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin on Wednesday.
Editorial:
by Housewife4Palestine
With Israel’s track record for 58 years, I really find it hard to believe anything they say. For they have proved even now, they can not be trusted.
And as usual they run to the West and cry like babies because they know the West kisser’s their bottoms and will do what they say. And I can not help thinking what my Mother use to say, “You are, by the company you keep!”
By this information, I as a Palestinian just consider this a threat to us and nothing else because we have been threatened, robbed and murdered for the 58 years. Then the West wonder’s why we will not trust them, go figure.
After the recent murders by that family on the beach by the Israeli’s, which in turn caused any peace to be thrown in reverse; our total annihilation and the complete destruction of our country is not an option we will accept!
Their should have never been a State of Israel, with so many in the world agreeing especially after the Israel’s time and again in their nakedness has shown they are no better then the Nazi Regime that they like to cry and say, “woe to me!” They have been doing the same madness to the Palestinian’s and no Palestinian should negotiate with murderers as for their being a State of Israel any where in the world, I for one say, “NO!”
It is written in the Talmud and other documents that only one that can create a place called, “Israel,” is the Messiah; especially according to Jewish teaching’s and for these Zionist trying to force their ideology of terror upon people is not only bad for the Palestinian people but for the world as a whole because the Zionist are going against God’s time table and if it wasn’t so; we would be having the problems we are seeing.
As for Israel as a whole, Israel is a Terrorist group that should be held for war crimes like the Nazi’s and anyone associated with them should really be put into question because like my Mother said, “You are, by the company you keep!”
As for a couple of other issues, nuclear weapons with Iran has not been proven to my knowledge and as for having any dealings with Abbas who many Palestinian’s consider a traitor ( Nemorah), what we have; bed mates?
Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair (L) greets Prime Minister of Israel, Ehud Olmert at 10 Downing Street in London. Olmert suggested that Blair had at least tacitly backed a plan to set unilaterally Israel's borders with the Palestinians in the West Bank.(AFP/John McHugh)
by Deborah Haynes
Jun 12, 2006
LONDON (AFP) -British Prime Minister Tony Blair warned of a "different reality" in the Middle East unless Israel and the Palestinians were able to negotiate an agreement on territory.
Blair, who held talks in London with his visiting Israeli counterpart, Ehud Olmert, said everyone favoured a negotiated settlement.
But such discussions would only take place if the Palestinians recognised the Jewish state's right to exist, renounced violence and agreed to follow the international "road map" for peace, he said.
Olmert is hoping to sell a plan of fixing Israel's borders with or without agreement of the Palestinians while on a trip to London and Paris.
He will have taken heart that Blair did not outwardly reject the proposal, which has received a cool reception from some leaders in the Middle East.
"I don't want to go down any other path than a negotiated settlement but the reality is that this thing has got to be moved forward by negotiation or we are in a stalemate that Israel is necessarily and realistically going to want to unlock," the British prime minister said.
"We, the international community, have got a choice. We either put our best effort into making sure that negotiated settlement becomes a reality or we are going to face a different reality," he said.
Olmert, who is on his first visit to Europe since being elected in March, said he would make "every possible effort" to negotiate with the Palestinians but warned that he would not talk to anyone who condones terrorism.
The Israeli premier also confirmed that he would be meeting Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas in "a few weeks".
"We prefer to have a negotiated deal. We will do everything possible in order to achieve that," Olmert said.
He emphasised the importance, however, that the Palestinians met the three basic principles for negotiations to occur.
Olmert warned: "One thing will not happen: a stalemate.
"Either we move in this direction and we make every possible effort or there will be another reality in the words of prime minister Blair and this reality is moving forward in order to change the present status quo in the Middle East."
He said his main goals were to separate Israel from the Palestinians, have a secure border, enjoy safety and security for all and enable the Palestinians to realise their dream of a Palestinian state.
Olmert's so-called "realignment plan" would see Israel uproot 70,000 settlers from the West Bank while cementing its hold on housing blocs where most of the quarter of a million settlers live.
The Israeli premier received a cool reception for his proposal in talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Jordan's King Abdullah II in the past week, with both men urging him not to make any unilateral moves.
US President George W. Bush has called the plan "bold" but has also told Olmert that he must first exhaust all efforts to reach an agreement with Abbas.
Tensions between Israel and the Palestinians were raised on Friday by the death of eight Palestinian civilians in an explosion on a beach in the northern Gaza Strip -- an incident that prompted Hamas to end an 18-month truce.
Asked whether Israel could kill Hamas ministers, Olmert told journalists accompanying him in London: "Whoever is implicated in terrorism cannot claim to have immunity."
Turning to other issues, Blair and Olmert said they talked about Iran, with the Israeli leader giving his full backing to efforts by the international community to end the stand-off over Tehran's disputed nuclear policy.
Olmert is due to hold talks with British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett and Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown on Tuesday.
He then travels to Paris to meet French President Jaques Chirac and Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin on Wednesday.
Editorial:
by Housewife4Palestine
With Israel’s track record for 58 years, I really find it hard to believe anything they say. For they have proved even now, they can not be trusted.
And as usual they run to the West and cry like babies because they know the West kisser’s their bottoms and will do what they say. And I can not help thinking what my Mother use to say, “You are, by the company you keep!”
By this information, I as a Palestinian just consider this a threat to us and nothing else because we have been threatened, robbed and murdered for the 58 years. Then the West wonder’s why we will not trust them, go figure.
After the recent murders by that family on the beach by the Israeli’s, which in turn caused any peace to be thrown in reverse; our total annihilation and the complete destruction of our country is not an option we will accept!
Their should have never been a State of Israel, with so many in the world agreeing especially after the Israel’s time and again in their nakedness has shown they are no better then the Nazi Regime that they like to cry and say, “woe to me!” They have been doing the same madness to the Palestinian’s and no Palestinian should negotiate with murderers as for their being a State of Israel any where in the world, I for one say, “NO!”
It is written in the Talmud and other documents that only one that can create a place called, “Israel,” is the Messiah; especially according to Jewish teaching’s and for these Zionist trying to force their ideology of terror upon people is not only bad for the Palestinian people but for the world as a whole because the Zionist are going against God’s time table and if it wasn’t so; we would be having the problems we are seeing.
As for Israel as a whole, Israel is a Terrorist group that should be held for war crimes like the Nazi’s and anyone associated with them should really be put into question because like my Mother said, “You are, by the company you keep!”
As for a couple of other issues, nuclear weapons with Iran has not been proven to my knowledge and as for having any dealings with Abbas who many Palestinian’s consider a traitor ( Nemorah), what we have; bed mates?
posted by HRM Deborah of Israel and the Messenger of Peace at 6:07 PM
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