Netanyahu a Kerry: i palestinesi incitano contro Israele anche dopo il rinnovo dei colloqui
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Da Barak Ravid | 10 agosto 2013 | 09:30 | 19Dopo che il capo negoziatore palestinese Saeb Erekat ha inviato una lettera Giovedi al Segretario di Stato John Kerry affermando che la costruzione negli insediamenti avrebbe danneggiato il processo di pace, il primo ministro Benjamin Netanyahu ha inviato una lettera a Kerry durante il fine settimana dichiarando che i palestinesi incitano contro Israele anche se il processo di pace è stato rinnovato.Istigazione e pace non vanno insieme aggiungendo che invece di educare la prossima generazione di palestinesi a vivere in pace con Israele, i palestinesi vengono educati ad odiare Israele ponendo le basi per la continuazione della violenza e del terrore.I funzionari dell'ufficio di Netanyahu hanno puntualizzato che Netanyahu si riferiva a osservazioni fatte dal presidente palestinese Mahmoud Abbas a giornalisti egiziani la scorsa settimana quando aveva affermato che si sarebbe opposto alla presenza anche di un solo israeliano nel futuro Stato palestinese. Per Netanyahu ciò costituisce incitamento contro Israele.Netanyahu ha incluso nella sua lettera a Kerry altri esempi di ciò che egli chiama l'incitamento contro Israele : tra questa una citazione della stazione televisiva palestinese durante una trasmissione sulla visita della squadra di calcio del Barcellona per la Cisgiordania : "La mia terra Palestina guarda a Safed e alla Tiberiade, invia saluti al mare di Acri e Haifa, non dimenticate Nazareth e la sua gente tornerà a Beit She'an "Un alto funzionario palestinese vicino ad Abbas ha definito la lettera di Netanyahu "sorprendente e manipolativa." in quanto neanche Netanyahu vorrebbe soldati palestinesi o stranieri nel territorio sovrano d'Israele. "Quello che danneggia la fiducia è la costruzione negli insediamenti e il continuo incitamento da parte di alti ministri israeliani, come le osservazioni di Naftali Bennett sullo stato palestinese definito scheggia nel posteriore ". Farebbe bene a guardarsi allo specchio per la condotta del suo governo, invece di scrivere una lettera del genere ", ha detto il funzionario.Nella lettera Erekat ha chiesto di fermare Israele nell' andare avanti sul un piano di nuove costruzioni degli insediamenti. Erekat non ha minacciato di boicottare i colloqui, ma ha avvertito che se 'espansione degli insediamenti non si ferma , lui fa fatica a vedere come i negoziati possano "portare a progressi verso un accordo di pace". Si ricorda che Israele ha annunciato questa settimana, la costruzione di 63 unità abitative di Gerusalemme Est, in zona Mukkaber Jabal ,la costruzione di 878 unità in vari insediamenti in Cisgiordania, quasi tutti di fuori dei grandi blocchi , la decisione di includere insediamenti aggiuntivi all' elenco delle aree di priorità nazionale Ha quindi esortato Kerry a "prendere le misure necessarie per assicurare che Israele non realizzi uno qualsiasi dei suoi progetti di insediamento e si conformi agli obblighi ed agli impegni giuridici."Hanan Ashrawi, membro del comitato esecutivo dell'Olp, ha anche esortato Kerry ad "azioni concrete" contro Israele che ha accusato di "apertamente e deliberatamente di voler interrompere" ogni sforzo di pacificazione distruggendo la soluzione dei due Stati e uccidendo qualsiasi tipo di speranza" e ha avvertito che "in assenza di una risposta internazionale chiara, il nostro dovere è quello di proteggere la nostra terra e la nostra gente con gli strumenti legittimi di legittimità internazionale che abbiamo acquisito ".Un funzionario palestinese anziano ha spiegato che la leadership palestinese è già sotto pesante pressione da parte dell'opinione pubblica palestinese per aver accettato di riprendere i colloqui diretti con Israele, senza alcuna garanzia che essi porteranno alcun frutto e l'annuncio della nuova costruzione di insediamenti semplicemente aumenterà la pressione."Il segretario di Stato deve ora dimostrare che l'amministrazione di Washington è un mediatore imparziale e mecenate e non si inchina ai diktat israeliani".Ilportavoce Jen Psaki ha confermato che Washington "non accetta la legittimità del proseguimento della colonizzazione" e ha ripreso la questione con Israele.Nel frattempo, il comitato ministeriale speciale sulla liberazione dei prigionieri palestinesi deciderà quali dei 26 prigionieri palestinesi saranno i primi a essere liberati. Tutti i prigionieri da liberare sono stati condannati per aver ucciso israeliani in attentati terroristici che hanno avuto luogo prima degli accordi di Oslo . Dopo la riunione i nomi saranno pubblicati sul sito web Israel Prison Service, per consentire a coloro che desiderano presentare una petizione all'Alta Corte di Giustizia di farlo entro 48 ore.Nel corso dei prossimi otto mesi circa 80 prigionieri, incarcerati in Israele da prima di Oslo ,saranno rilasciati in tre gruppi, ogni due o tre mesi in conformità con le raccomandazioni del servizio di sicurezza Shin Bet: Israele potrà chiedere che alcuni dei prigionieri siano inviati a Gaza o siano deportati all'estero.
After chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat sent a letter Thursday to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry saying that construction in the settlements would harm the peace process, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
sent a letter of his own to Kerry over the weekend. In it, Netanyahu
said that the Palestinians were still inciting against Israel even after
the peace process had been renewed.
Officials in Netanyahu’s bureau said that the prime minister protested to Kerry that officials in the Palestinian Authority were continuing to call for Israel’s destruction even after the parties resumed negotiations.
Incitement and peace do not go together, Netanyahu wrote Kerry. Netanyahu added that instead of educating the next generation of Palestinians to live in peace with Israel, Palestinians were being educated to hate Israel, which laid the foundation for continued violence and terror.
Officials in Netanyahu’s bureau said Netanyahu was referring to remarks made by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to Egyptian journalists last week, while talks were being resumed in Washington. Abbas had said that he was opposed to the presence of even one Israeli in the future Palestinian state. Netanyahu claimed that the remark constitutes incitement against Israel.
Netanyahu included in his letter to Kerry other examples of what he calls incitement against Israel. Among them is a quote from an anchor on the Palestinian state television station during a broadcast about the Barcelona soccer team’s visit to the West Bank. In that broadcast, the anchor defined Palestine as “extending from Rosh Hanikra to Eilat,” and not Netanyahu said in his letter that before the game against Barcelona, a Palestinian singer performed a song containing the words: “My land Palestine, look to Safed and Tiberias, send greetings to the sea of Acre and Haifa, don’t forget Nazareth, and tell Beit She’an its people will return.”
A senior Palestinian official close to Abbas said Netanyahu’s letter was “surprising and manipulative.” He said that Netanyahu also certainly wouldn’t want Palestinian or foreign soldiers in Israel’s sovereign territory. “What damages the trust is construction in the settlements and continued incitement by senior Israeli ministers such as Naftali Bennett’s remarks about the Palestinian state as shrapnel in the posterior,” the senior Palestinian official said.
“Netanyahu did not respond at the time to those remarks in any way. He would do well to look in the mirror at the conduct of his government instead of writing such a letter,” the official said.
In Erekat’s letter, he demanded that Kerry stop Israel from moving forward on plans for new settlement construction. Erekat did not threaten to boycott the talks, but warned that unless settlement expansion is stopped, he finds it hard to see how negotiations can “bring about progress towards a peace agreement.” The letter details several plans that Israel announced this week, including construction of 63 housing units in East Jerusalem’s Jabal Mukkaber neighborhood; construction of 878 units in various West Bank settlements, almost all of them outside the major settlement blocs; and the cabinet’s decision to include additional settlements on Israel’s list of national priority areas, which will entitle them to various benefits.
Claiming that the settlements violate both the Geneva Convention and Israel’s obligations under the Oslo Accords, Erekat termed these announcements evidence of “Israel’s bad faith and lack of seriousness,” as well as a direct slap in the face to Washington’s mediation efforts. He therefore urged Kerry to “take the necessary action to ensure that Israel does not advance any of its settlement plans, and abides by its legal obligations and commitments.”
Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the PLO’s executive committee, also urged Kerry yesterday to take “real action” against Israel, which she accused of “openly disrupting” his peacemaking efforts. In a press statement, she charged that Israel was “deliberately destroying the two-state solution and killing any sort of hope,” and warned that “in absence of a clear international response, our duty is to protect our land and our people with the rightful tools of international legitimacy we have gained through statehood.”
A senior Palestinian official explained that the Palestinian leadership is already under heavy pressure from its public for having agreed to resume direct talks with Israel with no guarantee that they will bear any fruit, and the announcement of the new settlement construction merely increases this pressure.
“The secretary of state must now prove that the administration in Washington is an unbiased mediator and patron, and isn’t bowing to Israeli dictates,” he said.
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said that Washington “does not accept the legitimacy of continued settlement activity” and has taken up the issue with Israel.
Meanwhile, the special ministerial committee on the release of Palestinian prisoners is to meet Sunday to decide which 26 Palestinian prisoners will be the first to be freed, this Tuesday. All the prisoners to be released were convicted of murdering Israelis in terror attacks that took place before the Oslo Accords were signed. After the meeting, the names of the prisoners to be freed will be posted on the Israel Prison Service website, to allow those who wish to petition the High Court of Justice to do so within 48 hours.
During the next eight months, approximately 80 more Palestinian prisoners jailed in Israel since before Oslo are to be released, in three groups every two to three months. They will be released in accordance with the recommendations of the Shin Bet security service regarding danger they pose. Israel may ask in the coming rounds of prisoner releases that some of the prisoners be kept out of the Gaza Strip or be deported abroad.
Incitement and peace do not go together, Netanyahu wrote Kerry. Netanyahu added that instead of educating the next generation of Palestinians to live in peace with Israel, Palestinians were being educated to hate Israel, which laid the foundation for continued violence and terror.
Officials in Netanyahu’s bureau said Netanyahu was referring to remarks made by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to Egyptian journalists last week, while talks were being resumed in Washington. Abbas had said that he was opposed to the presence of even one Israeli in the future Palestinian state. Netanyahu claimed that the remark constitutes incitement against Israel.
Netanyahu included in his letter to Kerry other examples of what he calls incitement against Israel. Among them is a quote from an anchor on the Palestinian state television station during a broadcast about the Barcelona soccer team’s visit to the West Bank. In that broadcast, the anchor defined Palestine as “extending from Rosh Hanikra to Eilat,” and not Netanyahu said in his letter that before the game against Barcelona, a Palestinian singer performed a song containing the words: “My land Palestine, look to Safed and Tiberias, send greetings to the sea of Acre and Haifa, don’t forget Nazareth, and tell Beit She’an its people will return.”
A senior Palestinian official close to Abbas said Netanyahu’s letter was “surprising and manipulative.” He said that Netanyahu also certainly wouldn’t want Palestinian or foreign soldiers in Israel’s sovereign territory. “What damages the trust is construction in the settlements and continued incitement by senior Israeli ministers such as Naftali Bennett’s remarks about the Palestinian state as shrapnel in the posterior,” the senior Palestinian official said.
“Netanyahu did not respond at the time to those remarks in any way. He would do well to look in the mirror at the conduct of his government instead of writing such a letter,” the official said.
In Erekat’s letter, he demanded that Kerry stop Israel from moving forward on plans for new settlement construction. Erekat did not threaten to boycott the talks, but warned that unless settlement expansion is stopped, he finds it hard to see how negotiations can “bring about progress towards a peace agreement.” The letter details several plans that Israel announced this week, including construction of 63 housing units in East Jerusalem’s Jabal Mukkaber neighborhood; construction of 878 units in various West Bank settlements, almost all of them outside the major settlement blocs; and the cabinet’s decision to include additional settlements on Israel’s list of national priority areas, which will entitle them to various benefits.
Claiming that the settlements violate both the Geneva Convention and Israel’s obligations under the Oslo Accords, Erekat termed these announcements evidence of “Israel’s bad faith and lack of seriousness,” as well as a direct slap in the face to Washington’s mediation efforts. He therefore urged Kerry to “take the necessary action to ensure that Israel does not advance any of its settlement plans, and abides by its legal obligations and commitments.”
Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the PLO’s executive committee, also urged Kerry yesterday to take “real action” against Israel, which she accused of “openly disrupting” his peacemaking efforts. In a press statement, she charged that Israel was “deliberately destroying the two-state solution and killing any sort of hope,” and warned that “in absence of a clear international response, our duty is to protect our land and our people with the rightful tools of international legitimacy we have gained through statehood.”
A senior Palestinian official explained that the Palestinian leadership is already under heavy pressure from its public for having agreed to resume direct talks with Israel with no guarantee that they will bear any fruit, and the announcement of the new settlement construction merely increases this pressure.
“The secretary of state must now prove that the administration in Washington is an unbiased mediator and patron, and isn’t bowing to Israeli dictates,” he said.
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said that Washington “does not accept the legitimacy of continued settlement activity” and has taken up the issue with Israel.
Meanwhile, the special ministerial committee on the release of Palestinian prisoners is to meet Sunday to decide which 26 Palestinian prisoners will be the first to be freed, this Tuesday. All the prisoners to be released were convicted of murdering Israelis in terror attacks that took place before the Oslo Accords were signed. After the meeting, the names of the prisoners to be freed will be posted on the Israel Prison Service website, to allow those who wish to petition the High Court of Justice to do so within 48 hours.
During the next eight months, approximately 80 more Palestinian prisoners jailed in Israel since before Oslo are to be released, in three groups every two to three months. They will be released in accordance with the recommendations of the Shin Bet security service regarding danger they pose. Israel may ask in the coming rounds of prisoner releases that some of the prisoners be kept out of the Gaza Strip or be deported abroad.
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