Israelis, Palestinians meet in Jordan on draft peace proposal

[Gimel]

A group of Knesset members, including Labor's
Avraham Burg and Amram Mitzna, went into the last
day of talks Saturday in Jordan with prominent
Palestinian politicians on a peace proposal known
as the "Swiss agreement."

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The Israeli delegation left Thursday evening for the
three-day meet, which sought to reach compromises on
thorny issues such as the return of Palestinian refugees, settlements, the borders of a future Palestinian state
and the future status of Jerusalem.

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The document was prepared over the course of a
year by Beilin and Abed Rabbo, with the
assistance of several professionals, and is
intended to draft a permanent peace agreement
to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat
has given his blessing to the dialogue.

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The draft is based on the Taba agreements that
were drafted during the end of Ehud Barak's
term as prime minister in 1999, and former U.S.
president Bill Clinton's plan for the division
of Jerusalem between Israel and the
Palestinians, which included providing the
right of return for Palestinians in
humanitarian cases.

Labor MK Ephraim Sneh supported the dialogue
between the Israelis and Palestinians, but
criticized the level of details explored by the
agreement.

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http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/348710.html

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1. Interesting Gambit by Labor

Come up with a peace and force it on Sharon elimianting any perceived need for the man.

Unfortunately, the old man on Ramallah would also lose his job to peace and he controls all the "security" forces.

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2. israel

It will be interesting to see what the next israeli election throws up, will the Israeli populace see the labour party as selling out and vote likud, or will this win them votes.

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3. If Sharon is indicted

then it may happen sooner than expected.

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4. Sharon

Indicted for what? He already was indicted but managed to become PM nonetheless...

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5. You really are up on the

issues aren't you? I don't have time to get you up to speed. I'll leave you to your willful naivete.

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6. If you don't have time then why are you posting on a message board?

:eyes:

:shrug:

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9. Indicted for the campaign donation thing?

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7. Didn't read the link

But apparently the Palestinian delegation will be dropping the right of return.

A mistake to do that before final status talks IMO, but there you go.

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8. I thought they were going to wait 'til after the next election...

but I guess not. Well, the sooner the better.

I hoep they completely undermine Sharon.