'Moderate' Palestinians adament about inflexible Jerusalem demands

Prospects for peace look slim even if Israel freezes all settlement activity, or even if Israel dismantles settlements as weill as outposts. The most moderate of Palestinians insist on "Full Sovereignty" in East Jerusalem, reinstating and perpetuating the Arab ethnic cleansing of the Jews of Jerusalem  that took place in 1948. Likewise, Jews would once again lose control over, and access to the wailing wall, the Mount of Olives cemetery and  the campus of Hebrew University on Mount Scopus.

 

From Maan News

 

Fayyad: East Jerusalem is the capital of Palestine
Published today (updated) 01/08/2009 17:19

Bethlehem – Ma'an – East Jerusalem is the capital of Palestine, and the future state must have full sovereignty over it, Prime Minister Salam Fayyad
said near Ramallah on Saturday.

Speaking at a conference organized by Birzeit University's Institute for Palestine studies entitled, "Jerusalem: History of the Future," Fayyad said
that peace in the region depended on protection of the Palestinian capital.

"The conference's title bears a meaning that all of us believe in, which is that the future of the national project and the future of a comprehensive peace in the region are both dependent on protecting Jerusalem, its status, its history, and Palestinian rights in the city," the prime minister added.

He said that achieving these rights would be key to peace, security and stability in the region, and that any Israeli attempt to trespass on these rights would be doomed to fail. He reiterated that a future Palestinian state must have full sovereignty over its capital.

 

Indeed, the history of Jerusalem must be protected. Its actual history as the capital city of the Jewish people, not the invented "narrative" of the Palestinian Arabs. Jerusalem is not a settlement, Mrs. Clinton.

 

Ami Isseroff