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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (15415)	5/29/1998 1:39:00 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

The boy's ineffectual and incompetent foreign policy has resulted in two new muclear powers in the world. Now he's going to start a war in the middle east. WSJ: Palestine To Declare State Unilaterally If Deadlock Remains Dow Jones Newswires RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP)--The Palestinians will not be deterred by U.S. misgivings and will declare a state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in May 1999 if there is no progress in negotiations with Israel, senior Palestinian officials said Friday. The officials responded to White House spokesman Mike McCurry who said Thursday the U.S. would consider a unilateral Palestinian declaration of statehood a violation of the peace accords and "most likely not" recognize such an entity. McCurry's statement marked the first time the Clinton administration took a public stand on the issue. The remarks may have been intended as a gesture to Israel as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu grapples with U.S. demands for a troop pullback from 13% of the West Bank. Israeli media reports have said Netanyahu asked the Clinton administration to come out publicly against a unilateral Palestinian declaration of statehood, arguing this might sway hawks in his Cabinet to agree to a pullback. Under the interim Israeli-Palestinian peace accords, the five-year period of Palestinian autonomy in the West Bank and Gaza Strip ends on May 4,1999. By that day, Israel and the Palestinians are to have negotiated a permanent peace agreement that would set final borders and define the status of disputed lands, including east Jerusalem. Palestinian Parliament Speaker Ahmed Qureia and chief peace negotiator Saeb Erekat said Friday the Palestinians would do their utmost to negotiate a peace accord with Israel by the deadline. If talks proceed in a promising way, the Palestinians would likely be willing to go beyond the deadline, they said. "But if the Israelis are to continue wasting time ... then we will be free to do it (declare a state)," Qureia told The Associated Press. The Palestinians expect broad international support for such a declaration, Qureia said. Added Erekat: "If we are pushed into a corner and Mr. Netanyahu continues with his non-compliance policy, what does Mr. McCurry expect from the Palestinians?" Most likely not recognize such an entity. Tough talk. This on top of Hillary's Palistinian state trial balloon. God help us survive this guy.