«Η όποια συμφωνία τυχόν επιτευχθεί κατά τις διαπραγματεύσεις θα τεθεί σε δημοψήφισμα», αναφέρεται στο κείμενο, που επικαλείται τον ίδιο τον Νετανιάχου. «Είναι σημαντικό για τέτοιες ιστορικές αποφάσεις κάθε πολίτης να ψηφίσει άμεσα για ένα θέμα που θα κρίνει το μέλλον της χώρας», πρόσθεσε ο ισραηλινός πρωθυπουργός.
Ένας Παλαιστίνιος αξιωματούχος είχε δηλώσει χθες στο Γαλλικό Πρακτορείο ότι οι ειρηνευτικές διαπραγματεύσεις ανάμεσα στους Ισραηλινούς και τους Παλαιστίνιους, που έχουν ανασταλεί επί σχεδόν τρία χρόνια, αναμένεται να επαναληφθούν την Τρίτη στην Ουάσινγκτον. Επίσημα, το Ισραήλ δεν έχει επιβεβαιώσει την ημερομηνία της επανέναρξής τους.
Σύμφωνα με τον απολογισμό του υπουργικού συμβουλίου η κυβέρνηση θεωρεί την έγκριση του σχεδίου για την διεξαγωγή δημοψηφίσματος «επείγουσα και σημαντική» και ανέφερε ότι πρόκειται να ζητήσει από την Κνέσετ, την ισραηλινή βουλή, να τοποθετηθεί το συντομότερο.
Σύμφωνα με ισραηλινά μέσα ενημέρωσης, ένα σχέδιο νόμου πιθανόν θα κατατεθεί εντός της εβδομάδας στη βουλή για να ψηφιστεί σε πρώτη ανάγνωση.
Εξάλλου ο Νετανιάχου κάλεσε τα στελέχη της δεξιάς κυβέρνησής του να εγκρίνουν την απελευθέρωση 104 αράβων φυλακισμένων ώστε να ξαναρχίσουν οι συνομιλίες. Η κυβέρνηση είναι διχασμένη στο θέμα αυτό.
«Αυτή η στιγμή δεν είναι εύκολη για εμένα, δεν είναι εύκολη για τους υπουργούς της κυβέρνησης και δεν είναι εύκολα ειδικά για τις οικογένειες που υποφέρουν από τους θανάτους οικείων τους, τα συναισθήματα των οποίων καταλαβαίνω», ανέφερε ο Νετανιάχου σε δηλώσεις του κατά την έναρξη του υπουργικού συμβουλίου, αναφερόμενος στις οικογένειες που έχασαν μέλη σε επιθέσεις Παλαιστίνιων.
«Υπάρχουν όμως στιγμές στις οποίες πρέπει να ληφθούν σκληρές αποφάσεις για το καλό του έθνους και αυτή είναι μία από αυτές τις στιγμές», πρόσθεσε ο Νετανιάχου.
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28/7/13
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Cabinet approves referendum bill on relinquishing territory...
ReplyDeleteIf approved by Knesset, law would require the government to win public approval to give up sovereign land to Palestinians.
The cabinet approved on Sunday a bill that requires a public referendum on any future peace deal with the Palestinians that would have Israel give up sovereign territory.
The bill covers all of Israel, the Golan Heights, and East Jerusalem, but does not relate to the West Bank, which was never annexed by Israel.
“I believe that resuming the political process at this time is important for Israel,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said before the vote. “Every agreement reached in negotiations will be determined in a referendum. It is important that in fateful decisions like these every citizen will vote directly in matters that determine the future of the state.”
Chairman of the coalition Yariv Levin (Likud), who sponsored the bill, expressed his satisfaction at the result of the cabinet vote......http://www.timesofisrael.com/cabinet-approves-referendum-bill-on-peace/
28/7/13
Israël: le gouvernement approuve la libération de 104 Palestiniens...
ReplyDeleteLe conseil israélien des ministres a adopté dimanche un texte qui prévoit la libération de 104 détenus palestiniens. L'Autorité palestinienne a immédiatement salué cette décision.
Après les paroles, les actes. Le gouvernement israélien a approuvé dimanche la libération de 104 prisonniers palestiniens détenus en Israël dans le cadre d'une reprise des négociations de paix directes avec la Palestine, selon la radio publique. Le conseil des ministres a adopté un texte entérinant cette décision, par 13 votes pour, 7 votes contre et 2 absentions.
"Le gouvernement a approuvé l'ouverture de négociations diplomatiques entre Israël et les Palestiniens (...) et a approuvé la formation d'un comité ministériel en charge de la libération de prisonniers palestiniens dans le cadre des négociations", a indiqué un communiqué du bureau du Premier ministre israélien, précisant que le Premier ministre Benjamin Netanyahu présiderait le comité....http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/monde/proche-orient/israel-le-gouvernement-approuve-la-liberation-de-104-palestiniens_1269766.html
28/7/13
Israel votes to release 104 Palestinian prisoners...
ReplyDeleteJerusalem (CNN) -- The Israeli government on Sunday approved freeing 104 Palestinian prisoners despite popular sentiment against such a release ahead of talks with Palestinian officials in Washington.
Before his weekly Cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged his government to vote in favor of the prisoner release despite reservations.
"This moment is not easy for me. It is not easy for the ministers," he said. "It is not easy especially for the families, the bereaved families, whose heart I understand. But there are moments in which tough decisions must be made for the good of the country, and this is one of those moments."
The measure passed 14-6 with two abstentions....http://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/28/world/meast/israel-prisoner-release/index.html
28/7/13
Ya'alon: Prisoner release was choosing between bad decision and a worse decision ...
ReplyDeleteThe cabinet's decision to release 104 Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails on Sunday was a choice between a "bad decision and a worse decision," Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon told soldiers from the Home Front Command and the Artillery Corpson Monday.
Speaking during a visit to an IDF absorption and recruitment center in Tel Hashomer, Ya'alon said that "future strategic considerations" had to be taken into account when contemplating re-entering into final status negotiations with the Palestinians.
http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Yaalon-Prisoner-release-was-choosing-between-bad-decision-and-a-worse-decision-321363
29/7/13
Deputy FM: ‘Netanyahu wrong to back Palestinian state, and it’s hurting him in Likud’...
ReplyDeletePro-settlement hawk Ze’ev Elkin sees little prospect of progress at talks, because ‘the Palestinians haven’t budged a millimeter for 20 years’.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu errs in his support of a Palestinian state, and that misguided support is badly weakening his position within the Likud, Netanyahu’s own deputy foreign minister and Likud colleague Ze’ev Elkin told The Times of Israel.
In an interview at his office in the Foreign Ministry, where he serves as the deputy to acting foreign minister Netanyahu, Elkin said Netanyahu “is going against the flow of his own party. He’s paying a political price day after day, hour after hour, for his belief in a Palestinian state… It’s very hard for him in his party.”
Asked whether this meant Netanyahu would ultimately lose control of the Likud, Elkin said he didn’t know. Pressed, the deputy foreign minister said Netanyahu is “prepared to pay a political price for something he believes is right. I think he’s wrong. We have a real disagreement. But I respect his capacity to say, ‘This is what I believe is right and I’m prepared to pay a political price. I’m leading in this direction because I believe in it.’… Anyone who understands and sees the price he pays politically in his party and on his control of the party because he’s insistent on this [moving ahead with talks with the Palestinians on a two-state solution], knows that it would be foolish for him to do this if he wasn’t serious about it and if he didn’t really think it was right.”.....http://www.timesofisrael.com/deputy-fm-netanyahu-wrong-to-back-palestinian-state-and-its-hurting-him-in-likud/
29/7/13
Israel and Palestinian teams leave for US talks...
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Israeli and Palestinian teams headed to Washington on Monday for preliminary talks on resuming formal negotiations after five years of stalemate.
Both sides emphasized that many obstacles stand between them and a final deal on setting up a Palestinian state alongside Israel.
Talks will be complex, said Israel's chief negotiator, Tzipi Livni. She said she was heading to the Washington meetings, which are to begin later Monday, "cautiously, but also with hope."
Hanan Ashrawi, a Palestinian spokeswoman, said the upcoming talks are being held under more difficult conditions than previous negotiations. She cited the Palestinian political split, with Western-backed moderates and Islamic militants running rival governments, and the more hawkish positions of Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, compared to his predecessor.
"But I think there is a recognition of the urgency," she said. "If we don't move fast and decisively, things could fall apart."
The preliminary talks in Washington were made possible after Israel's Cabinet on Sunday agreed in principle to release 104 long-held Palestinian prisoners, convicted of offenses including the killing or wounding of Israelis and the killing of suspected Palestinian collaborators.....http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/middle-east/Israel-and-Palestinian-teams-leave-for-US-talks/articleshow/21452603.cms
29/7/13
Kerry calls for reasonable compromises in peace talks...
ReplyDeleteUS Secretary of State John Kerry said he was seeking "reasonable compromises" in Israeli-Palestinian talks as they were set to start in Washington Monday evening.
"Going forward it is no secret this is a difficult process. If it were easy, it would have happened a long time ago," Kerry told reporters.
"It is no secret, therefore, that many difficult choices lie ahead for the negotiators and for the leaders as we seek reasonable compromises on tough, complicated, emotional and symbolic issues."
http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Kerry-calls-for-reasonable-compromises-in-peace-talks-321401
29/7/13
Israel y Palestina acuerdan nueve meses de negociaciones de paz ...
ReplyDeleteLos nueve meses de negociaciones "no son una fecha límite" para lograr un acuerdo "definitivo" y no se detendrán si al terminar ese plazo "hay progresos sólidos", informó EE.UU., nación donde este lunes se realizó un encuentro entre israelíes y palestinos.....http://www.telesurtv.net/articulos/2013/07/29/israel-y-palestina-acuerdan-nueve-meses-de-negociaciones-de-paz-8262.html
29/7/13
Israeli ministers approve list of 26 to-be-released Palestinian prisoners...
ReplyDeleteJERUSALEM, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- An Israeli ministerial committee approved Sunday night a list of 26 Palestinian prisoners set to be released in the next 48 hours, as a gesture to the Palestinian authority amid the resumption of direct peace talks, the prime minister's office said in a statement.
The names of the 26 will be uploaded to the Israeli Prison Service website overnight, and the bereaved families of the victims killed in the attacks perpetrated by the prisoners will be notified.
This is the first batch of prisoners out of a total of 104 set to be freed as initiated by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The rest are to be released in phases in the next eight months.
The possible release of the 26 Palestinians, who were incarcerated for terrorist acts prior to the 1993 Oslo Accords, comes ahead of the second round of direct Israeli-Palestinian talks on Wednesday in Jerusalem.
On July 30, the two sides restarted direct negotiations in Washington of the United States, after their peace talks fell through in 2010 over Israel's construction in the West Bank settlements.
According to Netanyahu's office, 14 of the 26 will be transferred to Gaza and the rest to the West Bank.
[Israeli citizens have 48 hours to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court.]
The ministerial committee, headed by Defense Minister Moshe Ya' alon who filled in for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who is recovering from a hernia operation, includes chief negotiator and Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, and officials from the Shin Bet and the Israeli Defense Forces.
http://english.cntv.cn/20130812/100601.shtml
12/8/13
Palestinians call off round of talks after clash...
ReplyDeletePalestinian negotiators called off a planned round of peace talks today (Aug 26) after Israeli soldiers killed three protesters during clashes following an arrest raid in the West Bank, officials said.
The violence, the deadliest incident in the area in years, dealt a new blow to United States-led peace efforts, which resumed late last month after a nearly five-year break. Palestinian officials have accused the Israelis of stonewalling and using the process as a cover to build new Jewish settlements.
It was not known when talks will resume, but Palestinian officials said that they could begin again as early as tomorrow. They spoke anonymously as they were not authorised to talk to media.
Today’s clashes broke out when Israeli forces entered the Qalandia refugee camp, just outside of Jerusalem, on an overnight arrest raid.
Mr Shai Hakimi, a spokesman for the paramilitary border police, said hundreds of Palestinians poured into the streets and hurled firebombs, concrete blocks and rocks at officers.
The Israeli military said soldiers rushed to the scene to provide backup and opened fire after they felt their lives were in “imminent danger”.
An official at a Ramallah hospital confirmed three deaths and more than a dozen wounded. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to talk to the media.
Mr Hatim Khatib, whose brother Youssef was arrested in the raid, told The Associated Press that undercover troops dressed in civilian clothes arrived at their home at 4.30am looking for his brother.
“After half an hour we started hearing shooting from the soldiers inside our house, and then people started throwing stones at them,” he said. Youssef was arrested after he returned from morning prayers at 7am, he said.
He said he didn’t know why his brother was the only one arrested but said Youssef had spent time in Israeli jail for throwing rocks and was released three years ago. The Israeli military would not say why he was wanted.
The violence drew fierce Palestinian condemnations. “Such a crime proves the need for an urgent and effective international protection for our people,” Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah said in a statement.
Shortly afterward, Palestinian officials said that a planned round of peace talks had been called off. They said the Palestinians were protesting the day’s violence, and were also upset by an Israeli announcement yesterday that it was pushing forward with new settlement construction in east Jerusalem.
The Palestinians object to construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, the lands they claim along with the Gaza Strip for their future state. Israel captured all three territories in 1967. It was not immediately known when talks would resume.
A Palestinian official said the talks have gotten off to a rocky start, with the sides still arguing over the agenda.
The Palestinians want discussions to focus on security issues and the border between Israel and a future state of Palestine. The official said the Israelis have insisted on limiting talks only to security matters. He spoke on condition of anonymity because both sides have promised US Secretary of State John Kerry to keep the details of the negotiations secret. Israeli officials declined comment.
Mr Kerry is expected to meet Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Rome on Sept 8 to help push negotiations forward, according to Israeli and Palestinian officials. AP
http://www.todayonline.com/world/middle-east/palestinians-call-round-talks-after-clash
26/8/13
La réunion réunion israélo-palestinienne n'aurait pas été annulée...
DeleteLes Etats-Unis n'ont tout de fois pas précisé si elle avait eu lieu. Des informations contradictoires avec les déclarations côté palestinien.
[Par AFP]
Les Etats-Unis ont démenti lundi l’annulation d’une réunion de négociations entre Israël et les Palestiniens, précédemment annoncée par un responsable palestinien après la mort de trois Palestiniens tués par des soldats israéliens. Mais le département d’Etat est resté extrêmement équivoque, répétant une dizaine de fois à la presse qu'«aucune réunion n’avait été annulée» tout en refusant de dire si la rencontre prévue lundi à Jéricho en Cisjordanie avait effectivement eu lieu. «Je peux vous assurer qu’aucune réunion n’a été annulée», a martelé Mme Harf, mais «nous n’allons pas confirmer depuis cette tribune chaque réunion ou si toutes les réunions se sont tenues», a dit la responsable lors de son point de presse quotidien.
Les Israéliens et les Palestiniens «sont engagés dans des négociations sérieuses et durables», a affirmé la responsable américaine, dont le pays parraine ces entretiens directs israélo-palestiniens, précisant que les Etats-Unis «n’allaient pas rendre publiques toutes les réunions».
Des soldats israéliens ont tué trois Palestiniens lundi durant des heurts dans le camp palestinien de Qalandiya, ont indiqué à l’AFP des sources médicales et de sécurité palestiniennes. En conséquence «la rencontre qui devait se tenir à Jéricho aujourd’hui a été annulée après le crime commis par Israël dans le camp de Qalandiya» près de Jérusalem, avait alors dit à l’AFP un responsable palestinien qui avait requis l’anonymat. Dans une déclaration à l’AFP, le porte-parole de la présidence palestinienne a accusé Israël de vouloir «détruire le processus de paix».....http://www.liberation.fr/monde/2013/08/27/la-reunion-reunion-israelo-palestinienne-n-a-pas-ete-annulee_927330?xtor=rss-450
27/8/13