Proximity Talks

Submitted by Tom Carew (Ireland), May 11, 2010 at 07:01

If Abbas really wants a 2-state process, is it as a permanent solution ? Or is PA really committed to a 2-STAGE solution, with a 2-state element as only the initial stage ? The so-called *right of return* [ but never for any of the 0.9m Jewish refugees who fled the Arab world from 1947 ] would enable the gradual destruction of the Jewish homeland by the *demographic bomb*. This strategy would explain both [a] why PA and Abbas still absolutely refuse to recognize Israel as the Jewish state, and [b] why Arafat adamantly refused, at Camp David in 2000, to accept ANY agreement there as a final settlement and the end of all further Arab demands. T

hat this is not just speculation is shown by the Dec 23, 2004 revelation in *Middle East Newsline* by Farouk Qaddumi, PLO *foreign minister* and Arafat's successor as Fatah chief, that a 2-state *solution* was only a stage towards a single state to replace Israel, in line with the 1974 PLO incremental position on liberating palestinian land, and their goal was to eliminate Israel in the *second stage*. UK-based, Jerusalem-born academic, Ghada Karmi published *Married to Another Man* in 2007, and she concedes [ P251] *Though such bluntness was not the usual line adopted by Palestinian officials, Qaddumi was speaking for a majority of Palestinians*. And Abbas has made it clear that he signs international agreements and recognizes Israel but only as *PA President* and not on behalf of any movement. Who then is the *partner for peace* ? Do Hamas and PLO/PA differ only in tactical flexibility and timing ?

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