Login 
| Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas will criticize Israel for its settlement policy in the territories and demand that it stop building in East Jerusalem, according to a draft of the speech he is to deliver at the donor states' conference in Paris next week. Abbas will speak about several necessary commitments. Israel's first priority must be the "peace option" instead of holding thousands of Palestinian prisoners and continuing to expand the settlements." Israel must immediately stop all settlement activities in the occupied territories including East Jerusalem. It must stop land confiscation, closure, setting up further roadblocks, rounding up people, assassinations" and shaping reality with military force," Abbas will say. The second commitment invokes international support for the "peace option" based on international decisions and the Arab peace initiative. |
[ Read the rest ... ]
