PA demanding int'l force [aka human shields?]after peace agreement

PA demanding int'l force after peace agreement
By Barak Ravid Haaretz Last update - 03:44 28/05/2008
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/987691.html

The Palestinians are proposing that a multinational force under U.S. command
be deployed in the future Palestinian state, to monitor the implementation
of any peace agreement reached with Israel.

Meanwhile, the political-security cabinet is slated to meet this morning to
discuss which Israeli security interests must be guaranteed in the framework
of a final-status agreement with the Palestinian Authority. The meeting will
be the first of its kind since the Annapolis conference in November.

Over the last few months, the Israel Defense Forces planning department has
been working on compiling Israel's security demands from the Palestinians.
The recommendations have been submitted to Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi,
Defense Minister Ehud Barak, and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni - who is
coordinating the negotiations - and will be presented to the cabinet today.

Livni is due to inform the cabinet of the status of the negotiations,
particularly Israel's positions on the borders and security arrangements.
These are the primary issues being negotiated at the moment, and both sides
have agreed that any Israeli concession on the borders will be met with a
Palestinian concession on security arrangements.

Defense Ministry representatives participated in a meeting yesterday on
security arrangements between the Livni-led Israeli negotiation team and the
Palestinian negotiators, headed by former Palestinian prime minister Ahmed
Qureia. In an unusual move, the first few minutes of the meeting were open
to press photographers.

The Palestinians are aware that no matter what agreement is reached, the
future Palestinian state will not be allowed to possess heavy weapons. The
PA is prepared to accept limitations on the degree to which its security
services are armed, Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said Monday, in a
closed meeting at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv.

"We don't need tanks or planes, but we will not relinquish our
self-respect," he said. "But it its clear to everyone that on the security
issue, the agreement cannot be implemented without the prominent
intervention of America as a third party."

Erekat said reaching an agreement this year was "critical," adding that the
negotiations were at the point "where we were in Taba in 2001, and even
beyond that." He did not describe the scope of the prospective agreement,
but said, "there's no need for a 1,000-page agreement, but a document that
includes parameters for the establishment of two states. Such an agreement
will pass in a national referendum and will remove Hamas from power."

Which is the intent of the Palestinians, drive a wedge between the two friends and then murder every Jew in Israel and finish the State of Israel.