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Muslim
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010 04:23:42 PM,
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Istanbul:
Muslim leaders warned on Monday the establishment of new
Israeli settlements in Jerusalem would push the region to "the brink
of an abyss,” a day after Palestinians declared the start of
indirect talks with Israel.
Palestinians say the US-mediated talks will become direct if Israel
announces a complete halt to settlement building on occupied land.
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, a strong critic of Israel,
stressed the importance of such a move.
"Jewish settlement activities, which represent the biggest obstacle
to the peace process, must be halted," he told a meeting of
Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) nations.
A draft Istanbul declaration of the OIC's Parliamentary Union
condemned what it said were provocative Israeli acts at holy places
in Jerusalem and urged the international community to prevent
geographical and demographic changes in the city.
"(The meeting) warns Israel that its intransigence and persistent
defiance of the international community by the establishing new
settlements in Al-Quds (Jerusalem) will push the region to the brink
of an abyss," it said.
The Palestinians aim to establish a state in the West Bank and Gaza
Strip with East Jerusalem as its capital. Israel captured those
areas in a 1967 war and regards all of Jerusalem as its capital, a
claim not recognized internationally.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who heads a coalition
government dominated by pro-settler parties, has rejected a total
freeze on construction of Jewish settlements in occupied territory.
After Sunday's meeting, US Assistant Secretary of State Philip
Crowley said Netanyahu would freeze for two years a plan for
hundreds of housing units in an East Jerusalem settlement.
However a Netanyahu aide, who declined to be named, denied the
Israeli leader had specifically agreed to freeze the plan.
No new Israeli housing projects in East Jerusalem have been approved
since March, raising speculation Netanyahu has imposed a de facto
moratorium that could keep talks going while avoiding a falling-out
with his far-right coalition partners.
Turkey, a Muslim but constitutionally secular state, has a record of
military cooperation with Israel and has acted as an intermediary
between the Jewish state and the Arab world.
But warmer relations between Ankara and Muslim neighbors including
Iran and Syria have raised concerns that Ankara's traditionally
Western-anchored foreign policy is moving east.
Erdogan has repeatedly and strongly criticized Israel's offensive in
Palestinian-ruled Gaza at the end of 2008. He stormed out of a panel
discussion in Davos after a spat with Israeli President Shimon Peres
in January 2009.
He voiced further criticism at the Istanbul meeting on Monday and
called for an end to restrictions on the daily lives of Palestinians
hampered by security checkpoints.
"Palestine must be rescued from being an open-air prison ... While
this tragedy is continuing in Gaza I cannot be very optimistic that
the peace talks will produce positive results." US plans for
indirect talks were foiled in March when Israel angered Washington
and the Palestinians by announcing during a visit by Vice President
Joe Biden a project to build 1,600 new homes in the Ramat Shlomo
settlement.
OIC Secretary-General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu told the Istanbul meeting
that Jerusalem was facing its worst days ever and that diplomatic
action and condemnation could not address the challenge posed by
Israeli settlements alone.
"Israel is taking advantage of the international community's
lassitude with its policies and carrying out a hideous plan aimed at
depopulating the city of Al-Quds of its Palestinian citizens," he
said.
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