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Israel: West Bank-Gaza safe passage can be part of territorial exchange By Akiva EldarIsrael has proposed that safe passage for the Palestinians from the West Bank to the Gaza Strip be included in an exchange of territory with the Palestinians in the framework of the agreement of principles now being formulated ahead of the upcoming regional summit.
The Palestinians will receive control of the route, but Israel will maintain sovereignty and it will only begin to operate after the Palestinian Authority, under its present leadership, reasserts control over the Gaza Strip.
Jerusalem believes that the move will help PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayad garner public support in Gaza, which will see the Hamas government as an obstacle in renewing communication with the West Bank.A senior official involved in talks with the Palestinians said that the agreement of principles will not set out the details of the land to be transfered to the Palestinians in exchange for Israel's settlement blocs, but will reflect as wide as possible a consensus on the core issues with some ambiguity. The details will be hammered out in negotiations after the summit.
It is believed that for the Palestinians, safe passage is worth more than its nominal territory, and therefore this will be a central component in a territorial package.
Sources close to Abbas say the PA chairman has removed his objection to the establishment of a state with temporary borders following the signing of the agreement of principles, but has conditioned his agreement on international assurances of a timetable for the end of negotiations on permanent borders.
Internal discussions in Israel along with talks with the Palestinians are formulating the following positions:
Borders -- The starting point is the separation fence, without additional areas slated for the expansion of settlements. This leaves 92 percent of the area of the West Bank in Palestinian hands. The final area of the new state will be larger than the area east of the fence, but smaller than the area proposed in the Geneva Accord.
Among themselves, Israeli officials talk about the need to begin applying the principles of the Evacuation-Compensation Law on West Bank settlers. Two bills have recently been proposed on this issue, one by Colette Avital (Labor) and Avshalom Vilan (Meretz), and the other by Amir Peretz and Yuli Tamir (Labor).
Jerusalem -- According to a government official, Israel would be willing to transfer to the Palestinians at an early stage a number of neighborhoods and refugee camps outside the fence and in the area of the Seam Line. At a later stage, it would transfer more or most of the Arab neighborhoods.
The guiding principle is similar to that of the Clinton Plan: Jewish areas for Jews and Arab areas for Arabs. The "basin" of sacred sites in the Old City would be administered jointly by representatives of the three religions, each responsible for its own sites.
Refugees -- Israel would recognize Palestinian refugee suffering and accept indirectly some responsibility for the refugees from the 1948 war. Israel would also take part in an international project to rehabilitate refugees in Palestine, in areas Israel would transfer to the Palestinians and in the countries where they are now living.
Israel is basing itself on the clause in the Arab peace plan noting that a solution to the refugee problem is predicated on Israel's consent.
While the U.S. did not plan the agenda of the summit ahead of time, it sees the agreement of principles as key to the summit's success and is encouraging the parties to move ahead on it before the summit. The Americans believe the agreement greatly improves the chances that Saudi Arabia will take part in the summit, and will back Abbas and Fayad politically and economically. To connect the regional summit to the Saudi and Arab initiatives, the Saudis and the Palestinians want the summit to relate to the Israel-Syrian issue as well.
Nothing matters to the rulers of Israel, they are bent on leading Israel into national suicide.
They refuse to learn the lesson of the Gaza retreat.
They now are offering safe passage for terrorist from Gaza to Judea and Samaria (west bank), in spite of the fact that the IDF has gone on record that the Palestinians have now smuggled into Gaza very sophisticated weapon systems. This safe passage will be used to transfer these weapons from Gaza to Judea and Samaria. This will place the whole of Israel at risk. Why do you think our leaders want to build a new airport on a man made island in the sea, to place it out of range of these weapons that will enter Judea and Samaria. The current airport Ben Gurion will be an easy target if our leaders sell Israel out.
Bills are being offered in the Knesset that will lead to removing Jews from their homes.
If the government attempts to remove Jews from their homes we need to bring the government to its knees. Every government employee that supports the Jewish people should go out on strike, soldiers must refuse orders.
Tens of thousands of people should not demonstrate in Jerusalem as they have done so in the past to no avail. They need to enter the run ways of Ben Gurion airport and shut the airport down. Every Jew who loves Israel must take part in this struggle we must close the country down for weeks and maybe even months.
This battle must not be a battle of settlers only, against the government but all Jews must answer the call to arms.
Arab refugees from 1948, we must remember they left Israel at the request of Arab leaders so that their armies could wipe out the Jews.
What do we owe these people ?
Nothing!
The refuges that Israel owes are the Jewish refuges from the Arab countries many of whom are still stuck in a cycle of poverty, poor schools with little hope for the future.
Israel owes only the Jewish refugees .
If it is America that is pushing Israel towards such suicidal policies Israel must cut ties with America. We must break the contracts that the Israel Military Industry has with the U.S. Military for munitions and produce what we need for our own use in the war with Syria in the fall.
Let America go and see who survives, it will be Israel and the Jewish people.
G-D help us and save us from the Cowards, Scum and Traitors that seek to destroy the Jewish people.
