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<P>Il primo ministro israeliano Olmert ha presentato al
presidente palestinese Abbas </P>
<P>un piano per il ritiro dalla Cisgiordania, attuabile solo
dopo che l'Autorità Palestinese abbia ripreso il controllo
della striscia di Gaza.</P>
<P> Il piano prevede in pratica il mantenimento di tutti
gli insediamenti, poiché la demarcazione dei confini
seguirebbe il percorso del Muro dell'Apartheid, ma ai
Palestinesi sarebbe concesso il corridoio di accesso tra
Cisgiordania e Gaza. Che generosità!</P>
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<TD class=t18B vAlign=top colSpan=2>Olmert to PA:
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<TD class=t11B vAlign=top colSpan=2>By <A
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class=t13>Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has presented
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas with a
proposal for an Israeli withdrawal from the West
Bank, to take place after Abbas' forces have
retaken Gaza, as part of an agreement in principle
on borders, refugees and security arrangements
between Israel and a future Palestinian state.
<BR><BR>Olmert, who met with Abbas this week,
feels there is time to reach an agreement during
his remaining time in office. He is now awaiting a
decision from the Palestinians. <BR><BR>The
centerpiece of Olmert's detailed proposal is the
suggested permanent border, which would be based
on an Israeli withdrawal from most of the West
Bank. In return for the land retained by Israel in
the West Bank, the Palestinians would receive
alternative land in the Negev, adjacent to the
Gaza Strip. The Palestinians would also enjoy free
passage between Gaza and the West Bank without any
security checks, the proposal says. <BR></SPAN>
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class=t13>A senior Israeli official said the
Palestinians were given preliminary maps of the
proposed borders. <BR><BR>Under Olmert's offer,
Israel would keep 7 percent of the West Bank,
while the Palestinians would receive territory
equivalent to 5.5 percent of West Bank. Israel
views the passage between Gaza and the West Bank
as compensating for this difference: Though it
would officially remain in Israeli hands, it would
connect the two halves of the Palestinian state -
a connection the Palestinians did not enjoy before
1967, when the Gaza Strip was under Egyptian
control and the West Bank was part of Jordan.
<BR><BR>The land to be annexed to Israel would
include the large settlement blocs, and the border
would be similar to the present route of the
separation fence. Israel would keep Ma'aleh
Adumim, Gush Etzion, the settlements surrounding
Jerusalem and some land in the northern West Bank
adjacent to Israel. <BR><BR>Since Olmert and
Defense Minister Ehud Barak recently approved more
construction in both Efrat and Ariel, two
settlements relatively far from the 1949 armistice
lines, it is reasonable to assume that Olmert
wants to include these settlements in the
territory annexed to Israel as well.
<BR><BR>Olmert's proposal states that once a
border is agreed upon, Israel would be able to
build freely in the settlement blocs to be
annexed. <BR><BR>The settlements outside the new
border would be evacuated in two stages. First,
after the agreement in principle is signed, the
cabinet would initiate legislation to compensate
settlers who voluntarily relocate within Israel or
to settlement blocs slated to be annexed. Over the
past few months, Olmert has approved construction
of thousands of housing units in these settlement
blocs, mostly around Jerusalem, and some are
intended for the voluntary evacuees. <BR><BR>In
the second stage, once the Palestinians complete a
series of internal reforms and are capable of
carrying out the entire agreement, Israel would
remove any settlers remaining east of the new
border. <BR><BR>Olmert will to try to sell the
deal to the Israeli public based on a staged
program of implementation. The present
negotiations, which started with the Annapolis
Summit in November 2007, are intended to reach a
"shelf agreement" that would lay the foundations
of a Palestinian state. However, implementation of
the shelf agreement would be postponed until the
Palestinian Authority is capable of carrying out
its part of the deal. <BR><BR>Olmert's proposal
for a land swap introduces a new stage in the
arrangement: Israel would immediately receive the
settlement blocs, but the land to be transferred
to the Palestinians and the free passage between
Gaza and the West Bank would only be delivered
after the PA retakes control of the Gaza Strip. In
this way, Olmert could tell the Israeli public
that Israel is receiving 7 percent of the West
Bank and an agreed-upon border, while the Israeli
concessions will be postponed until Hamas rule in
Gaza has ended. <BR><BR>Abbas, for his part, could
tell his people that he has succeeded in obtaining
98 percent of the West Bank from Israel, along
with a promise to remove all settlers over the
border. <BR><BR>The Palestinians' proposal had
talked about a much smaller land swap, of about 2
percent of the West Bank. <BR>Compared to previous
Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, the Olmert
proposal falls between the one then prime minister
Barak presented to Yasser Arafat at Camp David in
July 2000 and the one he offered at Taba in
January 2001. The Palestinian proposal is similar
to the ones offered during the Arafat years, which
would have allowed Israel to annex only a few
settlements, along with their access roads - a
proposal nicknamed "balloons and strings." All
these Palestinian proposals ruled out allowing
Israel to retain the settlement blocs.
<BR><BR>Since then, however, the separation fence
has been built in the West Bank, and a new
physical reality has been created in the areas
where the fence has been completed.<BR><BR>Israel
also presented the Palestinians with a detailed
model of new security arrangements under the
proposed agreement. The security proposal was
drawn up by a team headed by Maj. Gen. Ido
Nehoshtan, now commander of the Israel Air Force,
but previously head of the army's Plans and Policy
Directorate. The proposal has also been passed on
to the Americans, in an effort to obtain their
support for Israel's position during the
negotiations. <BR><BR>The security proposal
includes a demand that the Palestinian state be
demilitarized and without an army. The
Palestinians, in contrast, are demanding that
their security forces be capable of defending
against "outside threats," an Israeli official
said. <BR><BR>On the refugee issue, Olmert's
proposal rejects a Palestinian "right of return"
and states that the refugees may only return to
the Palestinian state, other than exceptional
cases in which refugees would be allowed into
Israel for family reunification. Nevertheless, the
proposal includes a detailed and complex formula
for solving the refugee problem. <BR><BR>Olmert
has agreed with Abbas that the negotiations over
Jerusalem will be postponed. In doing so, he gave
in to the Shas Party's threats that it would leave
the coalition if Jerusalem were put on the
negotiating table. <BR><BR>Olmert views reaching
an agreement with the Palestinians as extremely
important. Such an agreement would entrench the
two-state solution in the international
community's consciousness, along with a detailed
framework for achieving this solution. In Olmert's
opinion, this is the only way Israel can rebuff
challenges to its legitimacy and avoid calls for a
"one-state solution." Such an agreement would show
that Israel is not interested in controlling the
territories, or the Palestinians, over the long
run, but only until conditions arise that enable
the establishment of a Palestinian state. This
position has received strong support from the
present U.S. administration. <BR><BR>Next week,
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will visit the
region to continue her efforts to advance the
negotiations. However, Olmert opposes her proposal
to publish a joint U.S.-Palestinian-Israeli
announcement detailing progress in the
negotiations since Annapolis. Olmert objects to
publishing partial positions; he only wants to
announce a complete agreement - if one can be
reached.
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