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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'Quartet recognizes may Palestinian State' - Ynetnews

Foreign diplomats warn that if Netanyahu to present new peace plan in the near future, superpowers in 1967 border, can support officially Palestinian State with East Jerusalem as the capital

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American and European diplomats warned that if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu put forward no new peace initiative in the near future, the Quartet can be forced to a Palestinian State with East Jerusalem as its capital within the 1967 borders, reported see the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday.

According to the report, Netanyahu under pressure to reveal a new plan, which would speed up the deadlocked negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians is. PM: we will not be dictated / Attila SomfalviBenjamin Netanyahu speaks toast in the Likud Passover, says, that Israel not PA peace process course dictate allows; Government policy meet Gaza numbers OffIf, which the Prime Minister not deliver groups fire with fire, the Quartet members - including the United State, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations - can decide to resume the peace process by officially endorsing of a Palestinian State. A Western diplomat stationed in Israel "The Israelis a little bit pressure with the way face, running things," the newspaper said. "People begin to look, in the United States for a kind of action" he added. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton suggested last week that the international community a apply pressure on both sides to promote settlement of the long-standing conflict, which they said as urgent as ever and ever in the light of recent developments in the Arab world. "The status quo between Palestinians and Israelis no longer sustainable as the political systems cut have in recent months," Clinton said during a speech at the U.S. Islamic world forum in Washington. Expected to before the US Congress next month talk budget for missile defense system, iron dome is on Sunday, Netanyahu, who thanked us President Barack Obama for the approval of aid. "This is a way to present Israel the political and security principles, following dramatic changes in the region and in the light of our national interest to our peaceful and secure future," he said during the last cabinet meeting. Analysts have said that the United States make a Quartet that moved that was set in Berlin last week, take place as a result of Washington's reservations to the European peace initiative. Peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians were in September last year, but not more shortly afterwards renewed to the recovery of the construction in the settlements after a Government imposed 10 months freezing.
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Palestinian engineer kidnapped are displayed in the Ukraine, in Israel Court - ABC Online

MARK COLVIN: In a cold, dark night a man from a train of two men allegedly foreign agents, kidnapped, is to take him from his car and spirit him of the country.

No, there is no Graham Greene, an Eric Ambler or an Alan furst, it is a true story that happened in February in the Ukraine.

Links to Hamas and details of the disappearance of an Israeli soldier believed the abducted man is a Palestinian from the Gaza Strip almost five years ago.

And the abduction is allegedly the work of Israel spy agency, Mossad.

Struts you East correspondent Anne Barker reports with.

ANNE BARKER: The night of 18 February, Dirar Abu Sisi, the Technical Director of Gaza was in power station, travel a night train in the Ukraine. His wife Veronika is Ukrainian - and Abu Sisi was citizenship request.

But wake up sometime in the night train, two men came to his carriage and took him.
Within hours he was on a level set and where he since has been flown to Israel and detained at Shikma prison South of Tel Aviv.

His lawyer Smadar Natan Ben says that she suspected that were Israeli Mossad agents behind the kidnapping.

SMADAR BEN NATAN: Alleged Israeli appeared even in the Ukraine.

ANNE BARKER: What can you give me then about the nature of that kidnap say?

SMADAR BEN NATAN: Well I can tell you, it was a kidnapping with no formal extradition procedures. And I know where I presented with no arrest warrant. Only, a powerful extraordinary delivery from one country to another.

ANNE BARKER: is it your understanding, that the Ukrainian authorities were complicit in this abduction?

SMADAR BEN NATAN: It is very possible that they were accomplices. It is very hard to imagine how to so kidnapped a person and of the local authorities flown from one country to another without some assistance.

ANNE BARKER: ABC has many authorities in Israel and the Ukraine no luck as Abu Sisi's tries to contact Mrs Veronika. Comment is not simply Israeli authorities, although they do not deny that it was Israeli agents abducted him.

But she will not answer questions about the legality or illegality of the seizure of someone on foreign soil without a warrant or this them of the country, without applying for extradition.

The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, told Israeli television Abu Sisi is a member of the Hamas Israel as terrorist organization understands and that his detention at least is legal.

"Abu Sisi of Hamas," he said. "He is in custody in Israel." He is legally in all rules place. "I can only say that he has provided useful information."

(Question from the interviewer)

Asked what the details and whether it refers to the case of the captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit of the Prime Minister would no longer say.

But Abu Sisi in Court yesterday insisted he was innocent and said the accusations against him are all lies. He confirmed he is been interrogated about Gilad Shalit, but he and his lawyer said that he knows nothing.

SMADAR BEN NATAN: He is not a terrorist at all. And he is person or member not even a Hamas. He is a professional. He was not a political person in any way, not a military person, of course. They live in Gaza know a lot of things and will you know other things in a senior position in the electricity company. But I don't think he knew no more than that.

ANNE BARKER: Abu Sisi's family now has begun legal proceedings in the Ukraine to try to force Ukrainian authorities to his return from Israel request on the grounds he supplied nor sold was.

If that fails, they have pressure against Israel appealed to the European Court of human rights and the United Nations.

But even if one is to find Abu Sisi's, of them questionable whether Israel would comply with the results.

This is Anne Barker in Jerusalem, reporting for PM.

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