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| By Avi Issacharoff, Aluf Benn, Barak Ravid and Jack Khoury, Haaretz Correspondents: PA minister: Hand Temple Mount over to global Islamic group |
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The Clinton plan appears to be based on the “five nos” enunciated by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak on the eve of the July Camp David summit as Israel`s conditions for a peace treaty with the Palestinians: no withdrawal to the pre-1967 boundaries; no (full) withdrawal from East Jerusalem; no (complete) dismantlement of Jewish settlements; no right of return for Palestinian refugees and no additional army west of the Jordan river.
These “five nos” denied the PA even symbolic achievements on the questions of Jerusalem and refugees necessary for Palestinian and Arab political support. The summit collapsed, setting the stage for the Israel-Palestinian confrontation which erupted on September 28.
Camp David was predicated on the assumptions that Arafat was prepared to establish a state at any price and that authoritarian rule in the PA-controlled areas and elsewhere in the Arab world meant that only Israeli public opinion mattered when addressing sensitive final status issues. Israel o |
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