-Caveat Lector- MARC PEARLMAN, FORWARD - http://www.forward.com/issues/2002/02.10.25/news1.html
The Palestinian Authority has told the Bush administration it would consider abandoning its support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and instead press for equal citizenship for Palestinians inside one bi-national state if Israeli settlement activity continues unabated. In a little-noticed memo and a letter handed earlier this month to top American officials, the P.A. states that Israeli settlement expansion is eliminating the possibility of a viable Palestinian state and thus forcing the Palestinian leadership to reconsider the two-state concept that has been the basis of negotiations during the last decade. While Israel and its supporters here have accused the P.A. of de facto abandoning the two-state solution by launching the intifada in September 2000, the Palestinian leadership has never officially renounced the Oslo process. The P.A. messages suggest the deepest deterioration yet of the diplomatic process since the outbreak of the intifada, and come as the Bush administration is pushing a three-year roadmap toward two states. . . "This is just despair setting in," said Stephen P. Cohen, a Middle East expert with the Israel Policy Forum, a left-leaning think tank. "There is a growing realization in Israel and among Palestinians that the situation on the ground is becoming defined by the erasure of the Green Line as previously understood... You now have a Jewish state on both sides of the Green Line, one where there is a Jewish majority and one where there is a Jewish minority ruling an Arab majority. So you have the feeling we are back to the notion of Palestinians getting civil rights in a single state." Ahmed Qureia, the speaker of the Palestinian parliament and veteran negotiator also known as Abu Ala, sent a letter to the White . . . "Israel's ongoing colony construction and other unilateral measures in the Occupied Palestinian territories are effectively pre-empting the possibility of a two-state solution of a viable Palestinian State alongside Israel," the memo said. "If the international community continues to remain unwilling to rein in Israeli colony construction and expansion, irreversible 'facts on the ground' and the de facto apartheid system such facts create will force Palestinian policy makers to re-evaluate the plausibility of a two-state solution. . . Israel's ultimate goal is to permit a Palestinian 'state' which would be in effect the Middle Eastern equivalent of a Native American Indian reservation." <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http://archive.jab.org/ctrl@;listserv.aol.com/ <A HREF="http://archive.jab.org/ctrl@;listserv.aol.com/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
