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Titolo: Palestinians seek EU help to stop settlement spread (The Independent)

Non il momento di fare umorismo alla Jabo, mi pare. Pessimo gusto.
Am.
11 July 2005 11:58
Palestinians seek EU help to stop settlement spread
 By Donald Macintyre in Ramallah
 Published: 11 July 2005
 Nasser al-Kidwa, Foreign Minister of the Palestinian Authority, has 
called for the EU to impose economic and other international sanctions 
to force Israel to stop settlement expansion and further construction of 
the separation barrier in the occupied West Bank.
 In a marked shift of strategy, the foreign minister Nasser al Kidwa 
served notice that the Palestinian Authority was seeking a special 
meeting of the UN General Assembly to draw up ways of enforcing the 
International Court of Justice's declaration exactly a year ago that the 
barrier was unlawful.
The new moves, expected to be unveiled today, came as the Israeli 
Cabinet decided to accelerate completion of the barrier's encirclement 
of Jerusalem. The section round Jerusalem, which is now to be completed 
by September 1, will effectively cut it off from the West Bank and 
separate 55,000 Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem from the city.
In an interview with the Independent, Mr al-Kidwa called on the EU to 
bar the import of goods produced in West Bank settlements, refuse visas 
to Israelis who live in settlements, and to consider barring companies 
like the US giant Caterpillar from operating in member states if it 
continues to provide the Israeli Army with bulldozers for use on the 
barrier and settlements in the West Bank.
Mr al-Kidwa, nephew of the late Yasser Arafat, and a fast-emerging force 
in Palestinian politics, denied that the sanctions and boycotts he 
envisaged were the same as those that had been imposed on South Africa's 
apartheid regime, in that they would be targeted specifically at 
Israel's presence in the occupied territories, declared illegal by the 
ICJ's advisory opinion last year. "We want to create a movement, not by 
boycotting Israel, but by taking positions against, and maybe even 
boycotting, part of Israel that is engaged in such illegal activities in 
violation of that advisory opinion, the Geneva Convention and successive 
UN Security Council Resolutions."
The EU has already insisted that goods produced in settlements should be 
labelled to ensure that they do not enjoy preferential tariffs applied 
to Israel. But Mr al Kidwa made it clear that he wanted this escalated 
into a total bar in which "you don't allow goods produced by settlers to 
get into your countries."
Pointing out that the ICJ opinion had conferred an obligation on all 
countries to hasten a halt to the Israeli activities in occupiedt 
erritories it deemed illegal he added: "You prevent companies and 
entities that are contributing to construction of the wall or the 
settlements from having any form of privileges in your countries, take 
actions against them. Start to put some teeth in the words that have 
been repeated over the years". This is not directed against Israelis as 
a whole. You are giving them a choice."
While decrying the "miserable failure" of the international community to 
take steps to enforce the ICJ ruling, Mr al-Kidwa also said the PA had 
"made a mistake" last year by not risking a US veto by seeking an 
immediate endorsement from the UN Security Council of the ICJ ruling and 
if unsuccessful to seek a General Assembly decision in favour of such 
sanctions.
He said diplomatic moves would be underpinned by internal legislative 
proposals seeking to ensure that Palestinians did not work for or 
provide services for settlers, and to ensure that settler-produced goods 
did not reach the Palestinian market. The agenda for a General Assembly 
session would be discussed with "others who believe that some good is 
coming out of Gaza disengagement and that we shouldn't rock the boat."
While welcoming the withdrawal of 8,000 settlers from Gaza this summer, 
Mr al-Kidwa said that it was unlikely that the ordinary life of 
Palestinians would be significantly different with Israel maintaining 
control of airspace, borders and territorial waters. He added: "Even if 
we are going to have a successful Gaza experience that should not mean 
we should allow Israel to continue with their colonization of 
Palestinian land in the West Bank, construction of the wall and 
settlement activities,joining [the settlement of] of Maale Adumim to 
Jerusalem."
Mr Al-Kidwa made it clear he still believed his uncle may have been 
poisoned, saying that the French medical authorities had been unable to 
diagnose his illness or cause of death, while saying that they had found 
no trace "of any poison known to us." He added: "If he was poisoned it 
doesn't take a genius to say it was the Israelis but it is a big 'if' 
and it would be irresponsible of me to talk as if it was a fact." He 
added that he believed the truth would come out "in the not too distant 
future."
Mr Al-Kidwa made it clear that the only terms on which Palestinians 
would accept the "so-called state with provisional borders" which his 
"hunch" is that Ariel Sharon, the Israeli Prime Minister will offer 
after Gaza disengagement, would be if the UN simultaneously conferred 
full de jure recognition of and membership for Palestinian as a 
sovereign independent state broadly along 1949-67 borders.
The Minister defended his statement last month that Hamas would not be 
disarmed before the end of the occupation, while pointing out that the 
PA was still prepared to "dismantle terrorist infrastructure" as 
required under the Road Map by destroying tunnels and arms factories. He 
said the PA would seek to entrench a full ceasefire while enforcing the 
law to prevent display of weapons on the streets while maintaining the 
"right in principle" of the Palestinians to resist the occupation. "You 
go into homes to try to collect arms while the Israelis are living next 
door? That is not part of the Road Map."
Israeli ministers said at yesterday's Cabinet meeting they would address 
"daily life" issues for Palestinians by bussing school and university 
students through the new section of the barrier and drawing up 
procedures for sick people to reach medical services.

separate 55,000 Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem from the city.
Puttanata :)
-Stefano

 -Stefano
Corriere della Sera: 
"Le conseguenze saranno comunque pesanti. Oltre 55.000 palestinesi, che 
finora erano stati riconosciuti come residenti di Gerusalemme, vengono 
tagliati fuori dal muro. Abitano per lo pi in 4 localit: Shuafat, Kafr 
Aqab, Anata e Qalandia. Per loro verranno costruiti 12 passaggi nel 
muro, pattugliati giorno e notte dalla polizia. 
Riprovaci. La prossima volta avrai piu' successo (TM SdC)
Am.

e notte dalla polizia.
Quindi non sono minimamente "tagliati fuori" :)
Grazie per aver mostrato che l'altro giornalista aveva scritto una
emerita puttanata :)
-Stefano

 E allora?  Questo non li rendera' meno "residenti di Gerusalemme".
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Am.

 AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
C.V.D. :)
-Stefano