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2011年4月24日星期日

1 Israeli killed, 2 wounded in West Bank shooting

Palestinians shot and killed one Israeli and two others wounded Sunday beginning near tomb of Joseph, a Jewish holy site in the Palestinian city of Nablus, Israeli military and rescue services said.

The circumstances of the shooting were not immediately obvious. An elderly man of about 30 years reaches an Israeli base outside Nablus before dying of his injuries, the army and rescue services said.

Two others, about 20 and 17, reached a Jewish settlement nearby with gunshot wounds and was taken to the hospital.

Jewish worshippers often enter Nablus with a military escort located within an area to pray on the small building traditionally identified as the tomb of the biblical Patriarch, held the Palestinian. These visits are coordinated with the Palestinian security forces. Visit the Israelis Friday, however, seems to have not been coordinated with each side.

Israel Army Radio reported that the faithful identified as Palestinian police snipers.

Jibril al-Bakri, the Palestinian Governor of Nablus, said the Palestinian Authority "studied the incident internally."

A senior Palestinian official said police Palestinians seem to have been involved in the shooting. He spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.

The Palestinian Authority governs parts of the West Bank under the control of overall security to Israel.

Nablus moved from Israeli to Palestinian control in the 1990s in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, but Israel retained control on the building of the Tomb. In 2000, after deadly fighting autour Tomb, Israel military torn off and handed over control to the Palestinians. Later, a mob ransacked and torched the building.

The tomb was restored later. Recent years, through the improvement of the conditions of security in the West Bank and reinforced cooperation between Israeli and Palestinian security forces, Jewish worshippers have travelled to the grave in organized convoys.

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2011年4月22日星期五

Invitation to the Israeli leader is Obama spot - New York Times

Discuss White House officials have for three months, whether Mr Obama turbulence, including the upheaval in the Arab world, make a major address on the region the time has come, and whether he should use the opportunity, propose a new plan for peace between Israelis and Palestinians.

An administration official said this course was Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and the President himself, but by Dennis B. Ross, senior advisor to the President to the Middle East.

Because the Administration has brooding, Mr Netanyahu, was been scary, that his country floor plan would lose administration with no Obama, has consideration, whether in the White House with a proposal of his own, before a friendly Congress, prejudice, according to American officials and diplomats from the region.

"People seem to think that if you go first gets the upper hand," said Daniel Levy, a former Israeli peace negotiator and Director at the new America Foundation. Mr Netanyahu nickname, he said: "If Bibi went first and layout, would a bold peace plan to put it more difficult for Obama actually despite what you said Congress and their applause, that is what I think you should do."

The political diversion between the two men demonstrates how the calculation has changed East in the Middle for a variety of reasons, including the political unrest in the Arab world. But it shows the lack of trust and personal animosity of Mr Obama and Mr Netanyahu is what some officials say.

White House officials to draft a possible proposal which work, but they not decided how detailed it will be or even whether the President will deliver it in a planned speech. If Mr Obama submit to an American plan, officials say it could have four principles or negotiators have cursed mandate, to the final status issues, the peace since 1979.

The terms of reference might call for Israel, to accept a Palestinian State on the basis of the 1967 borders. You would have to accept Palestinians, that they end up not the right to return to Israel would get, from which they fled or were forced to flee. Jerusalem would be the capital of both States, and Israeli security would need to be protected.

Mr Netanyahu has made it clear that he wants to Israel's security before any deal needs dealt with peace with the Palestinians. He has worried more about security, because layers in power among the Arab States have weakened in recent months Israel's already fragile relations with its neighbours, in particular Egypt.

The fighting between the Obama administration and the Israeli Government reached a peak last week when Mrs. Clinton, in Washington for a meeting of the U.S.-Islamic World Forum, announced that Mr Obama "more detail would talk East and North Africa about America's policy in the middle in the coming weeks."

Their announcement electrified Israeli officials who got with American officials and journalists quickly on the phone whether Mr Obama had decided to put on the table an American plan. He had not such a decision, and White House officials pointed out that the internal debate was still going on.

But two days later, the House speaker, John A. Boehner of Ohio, his intention announced, Mr Netanyahu, invite, to address a joint session of Congress. "America and Israel are the closest friends and allies, and we are looking forward to the Prime Minister's views on how we can continue working together for peace, freedom and stability," Mr. Boehner said in a press release.

Like many other foreign leaders, Mr Netanyahu spoke in Congress. He did so in 1996, and four other Israeli Prime Ministers have in the past 35 years. The platform is American elected leaders the possibility of public support for Israel for the politically crucial Israel lobby to demonstrate.

Mr Netanyahu will address the planned meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, probably the most powerful of the American groups together, which advocate for Israel.

Brendan buck, Mr Boehner spokesman, said that staff had received no pushback from the White House about the invitation to Mr Netanyahu. "Of course, it's a troubled time for the region," he said. "Our members were very interested to demonstrate that we are with Israel."

In November last year, representative Eric Cantor, Republican of Virginia, said Mr Netanyahu, that would the new GOP majority in the House "review of the Administration, in a statement serve", put the rare his blunt disagreement on American foreign policy as a leading provider of foreign.

Mr. Cantor put out a statement after a meeting with Mr Netanyahu said that he "clearly, that the Republican majority understands the special relationship between Israel and the United States and the security of every nation of the other independent is made."

Brian Katulis, a national security expert with the Center for American progress, a liberal research organization, said that Republicans were trying "Israel a partisan wedge issue."

"And that's bad for Israel, and that's bad for the United States", said Mr Katulis. But he added that the Administration would never publicly or privately, against the idea of one Israeli leader addressing Congress.

Two American officials, on condition of anonymity by diplomatic caution, speaking, said they thought that if Mr Netanyahu, a bold proposal for peace with the Palestinians should deal, he would do before his own people in the Knesset.

"Instead of concentration on the establishment of peace, everyone seems speech-making, in the Centre of the stand", said Martin S. Indyk, Vice President for foreign policy at the Brookings Institution and a former US Ambassador to Israel. "And unless that talk that generate peace negotiations, so that no peace talk generated."

The debate is in a pending deadline by the United Nations General Assembly meeting in September, when the Assembly is expected to Palestinian statehood in a vote on the whole, support that deeply embarrassing could prove for Israel and the United States planned, both are expected to vote against it.

This article was revised and according to the following correction:

Correction: April 22, 2011

An article on Thursday between President Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Israel falsified the location of a speech in which Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced that Mr Obama soon would provide policy in the Middle East details of America's last week. It was in Washington, D.C., Forum, not in Qatar, at a meeting of the U.S.-Islamic world.


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2011年4月21日星期四

Palestinian State supported by 47 Israeli intellectual - Daily Star - Lebanon

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: celebrities Israeli intellectual and artist have come in for the creation of a Palestinian State on the basis of the 1967 line West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem.

The 47 signatories of the Israel Prize, the country's highest civilian honor include 17 recipients.

Among them, civil rights pioneer Shulamit Aloni, the actress Hannah Marom and the Holocaust are historian Yehuda Bauer.

You plan to sign the petition where Israel on 14 May 1948 was declared Thursday in a symbolic ceremony at the building.

The petition is determined as Palestinian officials say they are increasingly the United Nations to seek recognition for a State within the limits which was before the start of the war in 1967.

"Here we are, welcome the expected announcement of an independent Palestinian State next to Israel, while according to the limits of our independence, the 1949 Armistice," the petition reads.

The truce marked the end of the first Israeli Arab war, which led to the birth of the Israeli State borders, have changed not up to the war in 1967.

The petition warns that the only way the provisions of the UN resolution, which meet pass partition a year, before Israel declared the independence and the creation of a democratic Jewish nation and a democratic Arab nation demanded is to end Israeli occupation.

"The complete end to the occupation is an essential condition for the liberation of the two peoples" reads the petition.

The Israeli Government opposes the unilateral initiative.

Separately, he said Palestinian President Wednesday he opposed peace efforts another armed uprising against Israel, even if advised in the ground to a halt this year.

Mahmoud Abbas told reporters in Tunisia that he an agreement negotiated peace with Israel in September the United States supported target remains committed to.

But fall into the ground to a halt with lectures for months, he repeated his plan to seek UN endorsement of Palestinian independence in the absence of a business.

At a press conference before she said after France Abbas, that the Palestinians would unilaterally declare a State.

"We want to this which come in accordance with the Israelis, and within the United Nations," said the Palestinian leader.

Abbas said that whatever happens, violence is not possible. "I will not accept a third military uprising," he said pointing out that the last uprising armed against Israel "was devastating for us."

Around 6,000 Palestinians, together with more than 1,000 Israelis, killed in years fighting, which broke out in September 2000.

The Palestinian economy also heavily damaged the fighting.

Abbas said that he supported yet "resistance" - or demonstrations - against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank. "We have the resistance," he said. "But to say that you want to keep a weapon or pistol to fight, then I'm sorry, I is not allowed, as long as I am the President."

Abbas calls for the international community, in particular Washington, under pressure from Israel start, negotiations, saying that "if Israel shows a serious willingness to negotiate, for our part we want to reach a solution."

He said that, while in Paris, he French President Nicolas Sarkozy the peace process by the "Quartet"--the EU, the United States, give the U.N.and in Russia new impetus.

Abbas headed to Paris Wednesday to advise and support of European Heads of State and Government on the possible establishment of a Palestinian State this year.

"We are friends, so that he speak frankly with us and with us can be open," said Abbas by President Nicolas Sarkozy, he is expected to meet on Thursday.


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