Judeofascists' nightmare: dividing Jerusalem.
Israelis, Palestinians discuss dividing Jerusalem
KHALED ABU TOAMEH
Oct. 22, 2002
Israeli left wing activists and Palestinian officials met in Turkey over the weekend for a conference discussing ways of sharing Jerusalem. The meeting was organized by the Israel-Palestine Center for Research and Information.
The three-day conference, held in Antalia, was attended by two Meretz members of the Jerusalem Municipal Council, Meir Margalit and Peppe Alalo. Other Israeli participants included Dr. Menahem Klein of Bar-Ilan University, a former member of the human rights organization B'tzelem, and lawyer Dany Zeidman, who has defended Palestinians in Israeli courts.
On the Palestinian side, the most prominent participant was Dr. Sari Nusseibeh, the PLO's man in Jerusalem, and several other Palestinian activists and Palestinian Authority officials.
The Jerusalem Post has learned that the Foreign and Defense Ministries barred their representatives from attending the conference. IPCRI had invited Israeli government officials to the conference, which discussed the possibility of dividing Jerusalem between Israel and a future Palestinian state.
There was a consensus at the conference on the need to divide the capital and hand over the Arab neighborhoods to the PA. They said this was the only way to achieve a just and everlasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
This is the second conference of its kind to be held in recent months by IPCRI. Earlier this year, Israeli and Palestinian activists met in Cyprus to discuss ways of thwarting plans to build homes for Jewish families in east Jerusalem. The two parties also discussed the need to foil government plans to settle Jewish families in Ras el-Amud, an Arab neighborhood overlooking the Temple Mount.
Some Palestinian activists in east Jerusalem yesterday scoffed at the conference, saying there was no need to go all the way to Turkey to discuss a solution for Jerusalem. "A lot of money is being spent on conferences which have no impact, because it's always the same group of people meeting each other," said one activist.
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The media bamboozlement is perfect: one the right, we've got pro-Israel warmongers who claim the (eventual) war on Iraq is all about WMD and Iraq's "imminent" threat to the US vital interests.... and, on the left, we've got pacifist dupes who claim that the war is all about oil. And the truth is, both are wrong --it's a religious/irrational tug-of-love over Jerusalem and, incidentally, the balance of power between Judeo-Christianity and Islam... But then, how many Yanks are ready to die for Jerusalem?
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