Greetings.
Rather than re-type the balance of the Nov 17th Israeli-Palestinian Draft peace proposal that I posted earlier I found another source of that document that you can read at the link cited below. As of now it appears that the real “hard ball” is underway. As the local press is starting to cover this major event I will sit back, monitor, and report back once the Annapolis meeting is underway.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/927422.html
Juice readers. Let me say that I am fully aware that this story is not about Santa Ana, Mission Viejo, Orange County or our state. But it surely impacts our country.
The following text is part of tomorrow’s Haaretz newspaper where we seen that there are those in the Middle East who have no desire for peace. Let the text speak for itself as we are within 72 hours of the Annapolis meeting.
Quote: Tens of thousands of Gazans rally against Annapolis summit
Also Friday, Gaza’s militant groups, including Hamas, rallied tens of thousands of their supporters in a public protest against the upcoming summit, saying no such negotiations can deliver Palestinian rights.
Demonstrators in the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis marched following Friday prayers chanting “Death to Israel” and waving banners reading: (U.S. President George W.) “Bush is a war criminal not a peacemaker.”
Local Hamas leaders told the Gaza demonstrators Friday that over the next few days they will hold rallies and public events against the conference, culminating in a Gaza City public meeting to coincide with the Annapolis parley.
“This is the first referendum against Annapolis,” said Hamas official Khalil al-Haya. “The world must read what these rallies and conferences mean.”
Riham Abu Khater, 17, said she opposed participation at Annapolis as it amounted to recognition of Israel.
“Nothing good will come out of it. Good will only come from the language of fighting, and from force,” she said.
In the northern Gaza town of Jabalya, about two thousand Islamic Jihad activists and supporters took to the streets in protest at Arab participation in the Maryland meeting.
“We consider any Arab effort to make this summit a success as capitulation,” said Khaled al-Batch, an Islamic Jihad leader. We don’t recognize any results of this meeting…our response is resistance.”