Post by elizabeth on Feb 27, 2014 20:02:49 GMT
Here's an interesting article out of Arutz Sheva. It is citing a NYT article regarding how much pressure Obama is going to put on Netanyahu to accept Kerry's deal when he goes to Washington next week. This part of the article was interesting as well:
Meanwhile, reports said Thursday, PA chief Mahmoud Abbas called ideas that Kerry presented to him as “madness.” According to reports in PA newspapers, Kerry proposed lopping off Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem and placing them under PA sovereignty, enabling the PA to declare Jerusalem its capital. He also raised the possibility that the Jordan Valley would remain under Israeli sovereignty. In addition, the PA would annex ten Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, and be responsible for their security. Most other communities would remain under Israeli sovereignty, based on land swaps.
In response, the report said, a furious Abbas practically threw Kerry out of his office, telling the Secretary of State that if he did not back down on his ideas, Abbas would return to demanding that all descendants of Arabs who fled Israel in 1948 be repatriated in Israel, rolling back the “flexibility” he had promised to show on that demand. Abbas also reiterated that he would not recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
The New York Times also reported Thursday that Obama had invited Abbas to the White House. The PA chief will visit Washington sometime next week, after Netanyahu leaves.
To read the entire Arutz Sheva article, click here
Meanwhile, reports said Thursday, PA chief Mahmoud Abbas called ideas that Kerry presented to him as “madness.” According to reports in PA newspapers, Kerry proposed lopping off Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem and placing them under PA sovereignty, enabling the PA to declare Jerusalem its capital. He also raised the possibility that the Jordan Valley would remain under Israeli sovereignty. In addition, the PA would annex ten Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, and be responsible for their security. Most other communities would remain under Israeli sovereignty, based on land swaps.
In response, the report said, a furious Abbas practically threw Kerry out of his office, telling the Secretary of State that if he did not back down on his ideas, Abbas would return to demanding that all descendants of Arabs who fled Israel in 1948 be repatriated in Israel, rolling back the “flexibility” he had promised to show on that demand. Abbas also reiterated that he would not recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
The New York Times also reported Thursday that Obama had invited Abbas to the White House. The PA chief will visit Washington sometime next week, after Netanyahu leaves.
To read the entire Arutz Sheva article, click here