Palestinians Demanding Again
Charles Johnson
Sat Oct 6, 2007 at 10:15 am PDT • Views: 326
The Palestinians have never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity, and it looks like they’re gearing up to miss another one: PA official: We won’t come to conference without declaration.
Ahmed Qureia, head of the Palestinian team to negotiate a peace agreement with Israel said on Saturday that there was no way Palestinians would attend the upcoming international peace conference unless a declaration of principles was formed.
In an interview to Saudi newspaper al-Watan, Qureia was asked what the Palestinians’ stance would be if a declaration of principles was not reached before the November conference to be held in Annapolis.
“If that happens, the situation won’t be good, and we will have to decide between two alternatives: To go or not to go (to the conference). The content of the document is the important thing. If the document contains vague statements – it should not be composed at all”, Qureia said.
The former PA prime minister added that a Palestinian state without Jerusalem or the Gaza Strip would not be considered a state to Palestinians.
“There is no point to a state without Gaza or Jerusalem. All talk about a state without Gaza or Jerusalem is empty talk and a waste of time. The state is Jerusalem, and is not complete without Gaza”.
It doesn’t take a Nostradamus to predict that this “peace conference” is going to be yet another pointless farce, with Arabs making unrealistic, unyielding maximalist demands before it’s even started. And if they do end up signing some kind of agreement, does anyone honestly believe they’ll keep it?
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