Abbas: We won't waive right of return, Israel must be divided

Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA: Abbas tells Egyptian newspaper, 'We demand a
territorial continuity between the West Bank and Gaza Strip.'

There is only one way to achieve that: divide Israel.

Abbas: We won't waive right of return

While PM Netanyahu urges Palestinian president to meet with him, Abbas tells Egyptian newspaper, 'We demand a territorial continuity between the West Bank and Gaza Strip.' In letter to US President Obama, he demands independent state within 1967 borders.

Ali Waked
07.12.09
Ynet/ Israel News
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Palestinians respond to Netanyahu: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says he will not waive any part of the West Bank. "We demand a territorial continuity between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and will not give up the right of return," Abbas told Egyptian newspaper Oktober over the weekend.

Simultaneously, the Palestinian leader sent a letter to US President Barack Obama, in which he reiterated the Palestinian demand for a peace agreement based on an independent Palestinian state within the June 1967 borders.

Abbas stressed in his letter that the American administration must pressure Israel to solve all the permanent agreement issues, adding that thesettlements were an obstacle to the peace process.

The Palestinian president added in an interview to Egyptian media that the negotiations with Israel must be held based on the Arab peace initiative.

(I knew there had to be a deeper reason why the Knesset refused last week to impose tolls on the southern portion of Route 6)

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