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Palestinian PM says Jews would be welcome in new state
Myanmar News.Net
Sunday 5th July, 2009
Israel's right-wing government has once again spoken about softening its position on the creation of a Palestinian state.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a weekly Cabinet meeting that Israel supports the concept of "two states for two peoples."
Mr Netanyahu, who has long opposed a Palestinian state and supported Jewish settlement in all the biblical Land of Israel, is believed to have changed his position due to the deepening rift between Israel and Washington, which supports the two-state solution.
However, the Cabinet also heard Mr Netanyahu’s tough conditions for Palestinian statehood.
He said the Palestinian state must be demilitarised, Israel must be recognized as a Jewish state, and Palestinian refugees would not be able to return to their former homes in Israel.
The Palestinians, sceptical about Israeli plans, have responded to Mr Netanyahu’s comments by saying his plans would only lead to a ghetto, with no sovereignty and no control of its land.
Mr. Netanyahu has already rejected US and Palestinian demands for a complete freeze on construction in the settlements.
Meanwhile, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister, Salaam Fayad, has said Jews would enjoy freedom and civil rights in a future Palestinian state and would be treated in the same way as Israeli Arabs.
Speaking in Aspen, Colorado, where he was attending the Aspen Ideas Festival, the Palestinian PM was reported by the Aspen Daily News as saying: "Jews to the extent they choose to stay and live in the state of Palestine will enjoy those rights and certainly will not enjoy any fewer rights than Israeli Arabs enjoy now in the state of Israel.”
According to the Aspen daily, the crowd enthusiastically applauded him.  Email this story to a friend
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James Hovland
07-05-09, 10:18 PM |
Palestinian PM says Jews would be welcome in new state
That is an excellent gesture from the Palestinians. It’s also nice to see the new Israeli government softening up to the idea of Palestine gaining official recognition, but I think it should be pointed out that recognition of Palestine doesn’t require Israel’s approval.
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get real
07-06-09, 08:54 AM |
Peace and co-existence, that’s what the Palestinians have always been about.
are you serious?
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Anonymous
07-06-09, 09:32 AM |
There is the Muslims and there is the Infidels. How can there be any equality
under Islam?? I thought Jews were their eternal enemies?? Hard to believe!!
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kawahchan
07-06-09, 10:00 AM |
(R) 2012 DAN QUAYLE Presidency: Give SAR-West Bank, Gaza strip a NEW HOPE of lives.
(R) 2012 DAN QUAYLE Presidential Foreign Policy Team: Give Palestine’s Special Administrative Region (SAR) of West Bank and Gaza strip a NEW HOPE of lives. As long as Israel can giveaway a “free” flat of Condominium to the previous original Palestinian landlords' families to re-settle their homeless; Palestinian and Jews can live together in Palestine’s sovereign SAR to make up a SAR residents-elected SAR governor, and SAR councilors under a SAR’s mini-Constitution; SAR will NOT allowed Israeli military to station there. There will be Muslim Malaysia’s securities centers and Singapore’s securities centers to link to Palestine’s SAR to boost its economy and prosperity. Euro and US$ are welcomed.
* Israeli-Palestinian SAR supports (R) SARAH PALIN 2009-2012 Republican Fellowship.
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Apollo The Cloud Sitter
07-06-09, 03:22 PM |
Arabs in Palestine
I think you’ll find Palestine is the English version of the word Philistine which is of course the name of some Greek invaders at the time of Abraham. Palestine didnt see any Arab or Muslim invaders until the 700s' A.D.
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Elgon Zion
07-07-09, 03:57 AM |
Peace!
The peace is between Israeli och Palestin and that is how peace will prevail without externa interfearence!
Shalo!!!
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