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The Palestinian Leadership must not withdraw and should go to the UN on September
Abbas’ advisor Nimer Hammad stated today that the PA will drop its bid for UN recognition in September if the Quartet demands from Israel to [singlepic id=574 w=320 h=240 float=right]withdraw from the 1967 occupied territories including East Jerusalem, stop settlements building, recognizes the two states solution and defines a time frame for any peace talks between the two sides.
The Palestinian statement is a move made before the Quartet meeting that will take place on the 11th of July to discuss the PA decision to go the UN and ask for recognition of a Palestinian state on the 1967 occupied lands. At the same time, the PA continues to work diplomatically hard to try to get as much as support as possible for a declaration of a Palestinian state on September. Hammad’s statement would be a kind of diplomatic move to mind the
Netanyahu decides: To change the conditions of the Palestinian Prisoners
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu stated today that the Palestinian prisoners conditions would not stay the same. The Israeli decision includes preventing [singlepic id=567 w=320 h=240 float=right]more than 7000 Palestinian prisoners from applying to learn for an Academic title in the universities. The Israeli decision comes as an added punishment to the Palestinian prisoners that are involved in a political conflict.
Formerly there were many recommendations that were made by the Freedman committee that asked to decrease the allowed visits for the families of the
Netanyahu’s speech…Good Language but no Content
Prime Minister Netanyahu made a speech that got high rating in the television networks in the last week. Netanyahu came back home while thinking that [singlepic id=544 w=320 h=240 float=right]he made a great diplomatic achievement. His face showed expressions as if he finally found a solution for the long period of criticism against the current Israeli government.
The uniqueness in his speech is the ability and skill Netanyahu had in separating the Arab revolutionary movement to make a change in the Arab world from the Palestinians demand to end the Israeli occupation. Netanyahu talked about the Arabs movement in Egypt and Tunisia and compared it to the
Wikileaks and the Mossad, the Palestinian Authority ambition to get a recognition of a Palestinian state, and the rising tension in Gaza
Julian Assange, who is the founder of Wikileaks stated in an interview with AlJazeera that his website will publish thousands of documents that are related to [singlepic id=440 w=320 h=240 float=right]Israel, Second Lebanon War and Al-Mabhouh assassination in Dubai. Assange denied any kind of secret agreement with Israel that prevents the releasing of documents related to the latter.
Assange’s statement that puts Israel in a sensitive situation especially if Wikileaks releases secret documents that proves Israel’s role in Dubai’s assassination and other operations such as the assassination of the Syrian President consultant is not the only reason that is worrying Israel. President Mahmoud Abbas
The Present and the Future of the Israeli Palestinian Conflict
So where are the Palestinians and Israelis going to? Do they still have a chance to achieve something through negotiations or the current indicators show that[singlepic id=435 w=320 h=240 float=right] there is no way that peace can be achieved? What is it that both peoples want and what is the effect that both leaderships are leaving on their peoples? Is the two states solution valid or it stopped to be vital choice?
Many questions that can be easily answered but many prefer not to because of the difficult answers that would be found out. The International community is almost convinced that the peace talks failed and that it is impossible that both sides would reach a solution in the next year. The American administration
Israel prepares itself for both Peace Talks and a War in the Region
Al Rai Kuwaiti newspaper reported that Israel is preparing itself to attack Hezbullah targets inside Syria. According to the newspaper, [singlepic id=352 w=280 h=200 float=left] Western sources stated that Israel is increasing its army forces on its northern border with Syria and Lebanon. The Israeli air force has made several flights over Syria and Lebanon to examine Hezbullah targets to prepare to attack them.
Will the Palestinians go to Direct Talks?
The Israeli Palestinian peace process seems to freeze again after the latest Israeli and American invitation to go to direct talks in order to achieve an [singlepic id=282 w=300 h=210 float=right] improvement. The Israelis claim that the Palestinian authority is trying to use time as a factor of pressure on Israel; soon the settlements freeze period will end and Israel will be facing another challenge in renewing the settlements freeze.
The Palestinian leadership claims that the Israeli refusal to discuss any matter in the indirect talks, the continuous process of building settlements in East
