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Titolo: Palestinian PM: Israel Fails to Keep Road Map Promises

Palestinian PM: Israel Fails to Keep Road Map Promises
REUTERS
Reuters North American News Service
Feb 11, 2008 19:10 EST
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Palestinian Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad Monday
accused Israel of failing to keep its commitments to freeze Jewish
settlement activity and to ease checkpoints that limit Palestinian
mobility on the West Bank.
In a speech to Arab Americans, diplomats and journalists, Fayyad
complained of a lack of progress on these issues more than two months
after the U.S.-hosted conference in Annapolis, Maryland, where the two
sides agreed to start negotiations with a goal of reaching a peace
agreement by the end of this year.
"Annapolis was a major step forward, but I cannot say we are not having
difficulties. In the two months following Annapolis, Israeli incursions
and bombings on Palestinians and their property claimed the lives of 165
people, injured another 521, and caused untold damage to property," Fayyad
said.
Fayyad made the comments before he was to meet U.S. Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice. She is expected to visit Israel and the Palestinian
territories in early March, a U.S. official said.
Most of the violence against Palestinians has occurred in the Gaza Strip,
where the Hamas Islamist movement forcibly seized control from the
Palestinian Authority in June.
Militants in Gaza hit southern Israel daily with rockets and mortars, in
what Hamas says is a response to Israeli attacks. Hundreds of attacks have
killed two Israelis in the past year.
In response to the rocket attacks, the Jewish state has frequently
launched raids against militants in Gaza. These have killed around 700
Palestinians including civilians in the past 12 months, Gazan officials
say. 
SETTLEMENT FREEZE
Under the U.S.-backed "road map" peace plan launched in 2003, the
Palestinians committed to crack down on militants launching attacks on
Israel. The Jewish state, among other things, committed to freeze "all
settlement activity."
"What I see has not happened -- not happened to the extent it should or it
can -- is progress on these issues, progress on the implementation of
commitments under the road map," he said. "I do not see sufficient
commitment on the part of Israel to the ... settlement freeze."
Fayyad faulted Israel for having issued a tender for more than 300 housing
units around Jerusalem the week after the Annapolis conference -- a step
that drew a rare rebuke of Israel from the U.S. government -- and for
failing to ease the checkpoints that limit Palestinian mobility in the
West Bank.
"I do not believe that Israel, or the process for that matter, can afford
waiting until there is an absolutely perfect alignment of stars over the
Middle East." such checkpoints can be removed, he said. "They cannot be
removed overnight ... (but) why can't that process begin?"
Israel argues that the checkpoints are needed to protect itself against
Palestinian suicide bombers.
"Israel has worked to strengthen the Palestinian Authority headed by
President (Mahmoud) Abbas and Prime Minister Fayyad in the hopes of ending
Palestinian terror and reaching a peace agreement," said an Israeli
official who asked not to be named because he was not authorized to speak
publicly on the matter.
"The only thing choking the Palestinian economy is continued Palestinian
terror, including by elements affiliated with the Palestinian Authority as
well as continuous rocket attacks on Israel's civilian population," the
official added. (Writing by Arshad Mohammed; editing by Mohammad Zargham)
Source: Reuters North American News Service 
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 Palestinian PM: Israel Fails to Keep Road Map Promises
il paladino dei palestinesi criminali è rimasto l'ultimo negazionista delle 
foibe.
Anche cossutta e bertinotto le hanno accettate...sergio non ancora.
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il ricordo delle Foibe ha trovano una giornata in calendario solo
da poco: prima era considerato appannaggio esclusivo delle destra