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| By Stan Goodenough August 21, 2007 |
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The Palestinian Authority will enter into no peace pact with Israel that does not award the Palestinians full control over the site most sacred to the Jewish people -- the Temple Mount, according to a WorldNetDaily report.
The report detailed some of the issues being discussed in secret meetings between officials representing Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas.
The meetings are meant to set the stage for the International Middle East Peace Conference called for by US President George W. Bush and scheduled to be held in November this year under the chairmanship of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Headlined with the question, "Israel to give up the Temple Mount?" the report suggested that the Olmert government would be willing to consider such a demand, a suspicion fueled by the fact that three days have passed since its publication without an outright denial from the Prime Minister's Office.
This Palestinian position, long held by the PLO leadership at the insistence of the entire Islamic world, remains as solid and unyielding today as it did when it helped scupper the talks at Camp David in July 2000.
There, with US President Bill Clinton, then Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered PLO chief Yasser Arafat all of Gaza, 97 percent of Judea and Samaria - with the other two percent exchanged for pieces of land from "Israel proper" - the Arab-populated eastern parts of Israel's capital, the Old City of Jerusalem, and the Temple Mount.
This article first appeared on the Jerusalem Newswire. |
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