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Malegaon:
The Palestinian Authority (PA) on Wednesday rejected Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s call for direct peace talks, reports
the Saudi English daily Arab News.
Following his meeting with US President Barack Obama on Tuesday,
Netanyahu called on Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to meet him
and move from the current US-mediated “proximity talks” to
face-to-face negotiations on Palestinian statehood.
“We reject the call,” chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said.
Erekat told the Voice of Palestine radio that “the era in which we
held negotiations while Israel continued its unilateral procedures
away from the references of peace no longer exists and has gone
forever.”
“The key to direct talks is in the hand of Prime Minister
Netanyahu,” said Erekat. “The minute he announces a (total)
settlement freeze, the minute he announces the resumption of final
status (talks) where we left them in December 2008, we will have
direct talks.”
Erekat urged Netanyahu to stop settlement constructions in
Palestinian territories, including the natural growth of the blocks,
and to agree that the direct negotiations resume from where they
stopped in 2008. Erekat asked the US administration “to let Israel
choose between peace and settlements because the two things cannot
be taken together.”
Meanwhile, Abbas said Wednesday in Addis Ababa that he wanted an
Israeli “signal” on the key issues of security and borders before
heeding US calls for a resumption of direct talks. “We are ready to
go for direct talks if we receive any signals from the Israeli side
on two issues, the borders and the security,” Abbas said in English
during an official visit to Ethiopia.
“We have presented our
proposals to both the Americans and the Israelis and we are waiting
for an Israeli impression and reaction,” he told reporters.
US Middle East Envoy George Mitchell has been shuttling between
Israel and the PA since May. Erekat said the PA leadership “saves no
efforts to make Mitchell’s mission successful,” adding that the PA
awaits Israeli answers on core issues like borders and security.
On Tuesday, a new poll found that 47.6 percent of Palestinians in
the West Bank and Gaza are in favor of direct negotiations with
Israel, while 46.6 percent are against them. The poll, conducted by
the Ramallah-based Arab World for Research & Development center
found some 51 percent of the West Bank’s Palestinians and 41 percent
of those residing in Gaza support direct talks.
Meanwhile, Netanyahu said the best way to make peace with
Palestinians is to “put aside all the grievances and all the
preconditions” to direct talks. But he refused to say whether he’ll
extend the moratorium on a limited freeze in West Bank settlements,
due to expire in September. Palestinians have demanded this before
renewing face-to-face talks.
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said face-to-face talks
could start in September. “My feeling is that we can move very fast
with direct talks, about September this year, we can move from
proximity talks to the direct talks,” Lieberman told reporters in
the Lithuanian capital Vilnius.
The Palestinians say they are wary of walking into a trap of direct
talks. They insist on keeping Israel at arm’s length until it makes
certain things clear — namely, what size and shape of Palestinian
state is Netanyahu prepared to consider, and will its Jordan Valley
be free of Israeli troops?
The Palestinians note they have had a “peace process” for the best
part of 17 years, yet remain under Israeli occupation. They say they
have cooperated with three US presidents with differing levels of
commitment to the process, but with the same result. So they are
wary of being pushed into a negotiation where they can be made to
look like rejectionists.
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