Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Palestina 1 e 2

1.
 
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/01/11/Abbas-says-he-won-t-make-concessions-on-Jerusalem.html
 
 
Abbas says he won’t make concessions on Jerusalem
 
The Associated Press, Ramallah
Saturday, 11 January 2014
 
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has told a cheering audience in a 
fiery speech that “the Palestinian people won’t kneel” and won’t drop 
demands to establish a capital in east Jerusalem.
 
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is trying to forge an agreement 
between Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the 
outlines of a peace deal, which also would address the fate of Jerusalem.
 
The Palestinians want a capital in east Jerusalem, one of the areas 
Israel captured in 1967. Netanyahu has previously rejected a partition. 
Abbas and his aides fear that Kerry’s proposal, expected in the coming 
weeks, only will contain a vague reference to Palestinian “aspirations” 
in the city.
 
Abbas warned Saturday that “there will be no peace” without a 
Palestinian capital in east Jerusalem.
 
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2.
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/11/world/middleeast/israel-publishes-plans-for-new-housing-in-settlements.html
 
 
In Blow to Peace Effort, Israel Publishes Plans for New Housing in 
Settlements
 
By JODI RUDORENJAN. 10, 2014
 
JERUSALEM — The Israeli government on Friday published plans to build 
1,400 housing units in Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem and the West 
Bank, a move the chief Palestinian negotiator condemned as a “slap” to 
Secretary of State John Kerry’s intense push for a Middle East peace deal.
 
The housing announcement was hardly a surprise. Israeli officials 
originally said they would promote these units in conjunction with the 
Dec. 31 release of 26 long-serving Palestinian prisoners, but then 
promised to delay the plan until after Mr. Kerry’s latest shuttle 
diplomacy visit.
 
It continues a pattern that began with the peace talks last summer, in 
which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has struggled to please his 
politically complex coalition government by both engaging in the talks 
and continuing to expand settlements, something the Palestinians and 
many world powers contend undermines the prospects for a two-state solution.
 
“Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu sent a message to Mr. Kerry today, and 
the message reads, ‘Do not continue your peace efforts,’ ” the 
Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat, said in an interview. “They know 
very well that this destroys the peace process.”
 
Mark Regev, a spokesman for Mr. Netanyahu, declined to comment on the 
housing ministry’s announcement, which was made on a Friday, when 
Israeli news media are on something of a hiatus for the Sabbath.
 
A senior Israeli official, who insisted on anonymity because he was not 
authorized to speak publicly, said that Israel had agreed to release 
Palestinian prisoners convicted of killing Israelis as part of the peace 
talks but not to freeze settlement construction. He noted that all the 
new units were planned for the so-called settlement blocs that most 
Israeli leaders have vowed never to give up.
 
“Israel is strictly honoring all the understandings that were reached to 
facilitate the current peace talks,” the official said. “If you look at 
every peace plan that’s been on the table,” he added, “there are 
differences between the different plans, but in all of them, the large 
settlement blocs remain part of the final-status peace. If you’re 
building in areas that are going to remain part of Israel in any 
agreement, are we really changing the map of peace?”
 
The new plans include 600 units in Ramat Shlomo, a neighborhood in the 
northern part of Jerusalem where plans for similar construction 
announced during a 2010 visit by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. led 
to a major clash with the Obama administration. There is also more 
planned housing in the Gush Etzion area south of Jerusalem and in Ariel, 
a large settlement about 12 miles into the West Bank, along with several 
smaller ones nearby. In addition, the government republished old plans 
that were never implemented for nearly 500 units in Pisgat Ze’ev and 
Ramot, also in northern Jerusalem.
 
Israel seized East Jerusalem and the West Bank from Jordan in the 1967 
war; it later annexed East Jerusalem, which the Palestinians see as the 
capital of their future state. Most of the world considers these 
territories to be occupied, and any settlement there illegal.
 
The construction announcement on Friday comes as Mr. Kerry is trying to 
cajole Mr. Netanyahu and President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian 
Authority to agree to a framework for continuing the peace talks that 
would set out the core principles of an agreement and buy more time to 
deal with the details. The framework will probably call for a division 
of the land along the 1967 lines with some swaps to accommodate 
settlements, Palestinian recognition of Israel as a Jewish state with 
protections for Arab citizens of Israel and Palestinian refugees, and 
twin capitals in the Jerusalem area.
 
Jen Psaki, the State Department spokeswoman, reiterated Washington’s 
longstanding position that the settlements were “illegitimate” and said, 
“It is never helpful to have steps taken that are not conducive to our 
efforts to move forward on peace.”
 
“We’ve called on both sides, as you know, many, many times to create a 
positive atmosphere for negotiations, so anything that doesn’t do that 
is unhelpful,” Ms. Psaki added. “But the reality is, both sides remain 
committed to discussing the framework, committed to moving forward, and 
we’ll keep working with them.”
 
Mr. Erekat, who said in December that further settlement announcements 
should prompt the Palestinians to seek redress in United Nations 
agencies and other bodies like the International Criminal Court, on 
Friday said the leadership would hold an emergency meeting to decide how 
to respond. He said the announcement showed Israel’s “commitment to an 
apartheid regime” and presented a “test to the U.S. administration’s 
ability to hold Israel accountable.”
 
Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s 
executive committee, said the announcement proved Mr. Kerry’s initiative 
was “a charade,” and said, “I can’t believe how naïve, or disingenuous 
and complicit, the Americans are.”
 
Criticism also came from within Israel. Isaac Herzog, the leader of the 
opposition Labor Party, said the announcement was “detrimental to the 
negotiations.” Yair Lapid, who as head of the centrist Yesh Atid Party 
is a critical component of Mr. Netanyahu’s coalition, said on Israel’s 
Channel 2 News that he would “do everything so they are not enacted.”
 
But Ofir Akunis, a member of Mr. Netanyahu’s Likud faction, said on the 
same television program that “the Americans, the Palestinians and all 
the components of the coalition knew” that in the course of the 
negotiations, settlement “construction would continue in full force.”
-- 
Namib
.....
Sherif of Wazan: Great Raisuli, we have lost everything. All is drifting 
on the wind as you said. We have lost everything.
Raisuli: Sherif, is there not one thing in your life that is worth 
losing everything for?
[they both begin to laugh]

 negotiations, settlement “construction would continue in full force.”
 
il che e' innegabile.