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Yitzak Molcho and Saeb Erekat
Erekat and Molcho are said to have exchanged harsh words in front of an astonished audience, and that the peak of their brawl was hit when the Israeli official wanted to expose Israeli’s position on security.
The two negotiators are expected to meet again on Wednesday to discuss the matter of security, in a fifth round of negotiations held in Jordan. On January 26, the deadline imposed by Palestinians on Israeli vision of border issues expires.
Molcho said Israel would expose Israeli vision on borders by March, and brought an IDF brigadier general to present the Israeli security arrangements. Erekat was surprised and reacted very radically as he thought he was being ambushed.
He refused to allow general Orion finish reading the document on security arrangement, saying that if the Israeli side was interested, they could receive the written document. Erekat said he did not have mandate to talk security arrangements, adding he was ready to hear about the borders and the security issues.
Molcho replied that if Erekat did not have mandate maybe he should leave and bring someone who had mandate.
When the talks were resumed after a few minutes, Molcho presented Erekat with some of the evidence related to anti-Israeli incitement in the Palestinian media. He spoke of the words uttered by the Mufti of Jerusalem, who was presented on Palestinian television quoting from the Quran and demanding the killing of the Jews.
Palestinians demand that Israel make a clear statement on borders by January 26, when the Middle East Quartet has set the deadline. The Israeli delegation said that the Palestinians are setting the stage for abandoning the talks.
Israel and Palestinians have been attempting to settle the situation between them in September 2010, when the premier of Israel proposed a few rounds of direct talks. Two rounds were held before the settlement freeze in West Bank, imposed by Israel ten months before.
The negotiations were stalled for almost two years since then, the main demand of the Palestinians being the stop of building colonies in the West Bank.
In 2011, the Palestinian Authority went to the United Nations with a bid to have its statehood recognized by the world body. After a huge effort on both sides to either promote or prevent the recognition of the Palestinian statehood, the report of the Security Council, which was mandatory before a vote in the general assembly, said that the Palestinian state did not present enough guarantees for peace. A vote in the Security Council was avoided, thus sparing the United States from being in the position to veto the admission of Palestine, which would have hurt American interests in the Middle East.
Israel insists that no arrangement can be made with the Palestinians without any consultations and negotiations, because of security issues that need to guarantee the existence of the state of Israel.
Israel needs to know that it is to be recognized as the state of the Jews, and that its right to existence is affirmed by the Palestinians.
Palestinians fear in turn that if the settlements continue to be built in the West Bank, there would be no more land on which to build a state, following the two-state solution agreed.
Earlier in the month, the United Kingdom has warned through one of its diplomats that the two-state solution is running out as time goes by. The two-state solution refers to the establishing of a new state besides the state of Israel.
In the negotiations between the two sides, even the three-state solution came up, referring to the transfer of the West Bank to the Kingdom of Jordan, and of the Gaza Strip to Egypt, as it was before 1969, when Israel invaded the West Bank.
Israel pretends that it occupies the West Bank in 1969 after the Jordanian army abandoned the province. The international community never accepted the idea and demanded Israel to pull out, which it did.
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