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Last update - 22:40 11/09/2007
PMO denies existence of draft Agreement of Principles with PA
By Barak Ravid and Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondents
Tags: Agreement of Principles 

The Prime Minister's Bureau categorically denied Tuesday the existence of a draft Agreement of Principles between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

The Palestinian news agency published a document earlier in the day, which it said was a draft of the agreement being discussed in negotiations between Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.

The document is written in Hebrew, but has no identifying marks or signatures, and Abbas' office also denied any connection to it. Palestinian sources said they believe the document was formulated by a left-wing Israeli organization.
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The document is as follows:

  • The Israeli and Palestine Liberation Organization leaderships agree to immediately begin a process that, once completed, will produce two states living side by side, Israel and Palestine, and formulate a document of principles to reach understandings of the type listed below:


    • 1. Israel will end the occupation of the West Bank within an agreed timeframe. The withdrawal and evacuation of settlements will be carried out gradually and in several stages. All evacuated territory will be transferred to the Palestinian Authority, which will impose law and order. The existence of a leadership in the Gaza Strip that is prepared to be part of the peace process will enable Israel to view the West Bank and Gaza Strip as a single entity.

    2. A demilitarized Palestinian state will be established, and its borders will be determined on the basis of the 1967 lines. The exact border will reflect security needs, the demographic reality, and humanitarian conditions. Territory will be exchanged on a 1:1 ratio in order to retain the settlement blocks in Israeli hands, and ensure Palestine's territorial continuity as well as the possibility of its economic development.

    3. Jerusalem will be two capitals, of the State of Israel and the State of Palestine. The Jewish neighborhoods shall be under Israeli sovereignty and the Arab neighborhoods shall be under Palestinian sovereignty. The two municipal authorities will cooperate in order to allow quality of life for all its residents.

    4. Special arrangements will be implemented in order to ensure free access to all holy places for the members of the various religious. A special regime will be established in order to preserve the attachment of both nations to the holy sites within Jerusalem's Old City.

    5. Palestine will be recognized as the national home of the Palestinian people and Israel will be recognized as the national home of the Jewish people.

    6. A just and agreed solution to the Palestinian refugee problem will be formulated, through consideration for and recognition of the suffering that has been caused them, as well as the understanding that the realization of self-determination represents the principle part of the solution.

    7. Both sides will declare their readiness to end the conflict and will act to increase public support on both sides for this agreement as much as possible. The sides will also act, to the best of their abilities, together and individually, against all forms of violence and terror directed from the territory of one state upon its neighbor.

    8. Both sides view this agreement as a meaningful implementation of the principles of the Arab League peace initiative, and call on the League to take operative steps in order to bring about its full implementation. In addition, the sides call on the states and organizations of the Quartet and international community to guarantee, and assist in various ways, the advancement and implementation of an agreement based on these principles.

    A document based on principles similar to the aforementioned should be formulated prior to the international summit in November, presented during the summit, and anchored in international decisions following it.

    Immediately following the international summit, in parallel to the negotiations toward a detailed agreement, Israel will begin withdrawing troops and settlements from territory in the West Bank. The completion of the staged withdrawal shall be carried out parallel to the completion of the negotiations.
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      1.   Why not? 22:40  |  Reddie 11/09/07
      2.   yes,why not? 22:51  |  Ivan 11/09/07
      3.   Draft Agreement, Why? 23:12  |  yaakov 11/09/07
      4.   Yes, why not? 23:25  |  Gilles Cohen-Tannoud 11/09/07
      5.   WHY YES? 23:36  |  WHY YES? 11/09/07
      6.   WHY NOT 23:48  |  WHY NOT 11/09/07
      7.   LOL an anti-semites wet dream! 23:50  |  harold 11/09/07
      8.   Indeed, why not, but ... 23:51  |  Mohamed Malleck 11/09/07
      9.   wow 23:54  |  wh 11/09/07
      10.   DEnial of a scoundrel pondering how to trade existence of Israel 23:58  |  Absolute Sweden 11/09/07
      11.   You can bank on it 00:09  |  * BEN JABO 12/09/07
      12.   The dead mammoth in the room 00:12  |  Mark Lincoln 12/09/07
      13.   8Mohammed Malleck,there are 2 problems here:1.the settlements are 00:39  |  lakshmi 12/09/07
      14.   zionist pit-bull 00:48  |  wh 12/09/07
      15.   Hopes and Dreams 01:10  |  Sameer S Reehani 12/09/07
      16.   the draft just surfaced? just like that with no idea who drafted 01:23  |  Smadar 12/09/07
      17.   A more serious draft should be 01:26  |  Frank 12/09/07
      18.   See my post 13 for two main objections,but add a third,why would 01:33  |  lakshmi 12/09/07
      19.   Photo 02:01  |  Dave 12/09/07
      20.   Not a single "refugee" must return 02:14  |  McQueen 12/09/07
      21.   Time to prepare massive civil disobedience in Israel. 02:43  |  Chaim 12/09/07
      22.   Why would Palestinians agree to demilitarization 02:50  |  Tim 12/09/07
      23.   @ 13 Lakshmi -- Thanks for the references 02:58  |  Mohamed Malleck 12/09/07
      24.   Document written by the Olso brothers band 03:34  |  Avi 12/09/07
      25.   Yet another LEFT wing sham and shame! 03:42  |  Avi 12/09/07
      26.   23Mohammed Malleck,I don`t belong to any of the 3 monotheistic 03:48  |  lakshmi 12/09/07
      27.   22Tim,exactly ! See my posts 13 & 18 for details,if this is 04:47  |  lakshmi 12/09/07
      28.   Draft agreement 06:10  |  Otto Rand 12/09/07
      29.   Olmert is always shaking hands 17:45  |  * BEN JABO 12/09/07
      30.   The PA isn`t logical enough! 22:48  |  Paul 25/09/07
      31.   Armed Force 22:54  |  Paul 25/09/07
      32.   I accept all except 1 point of this DRAFT and its the............ 01:19  |  MOE 16/03/08
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