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To: SOROS who wrote (468)	9/25/1998 8:31:00 AM
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ICEJ News Brief NETANYAHU ADDRESSES UN, WARNS AGAINST PLO STATE Addressing the UN General Assembly in New York yesterday, Israeli PM Binyamin Netanyahu urged the Palestinian Authority not to go ahead with its announced intention to declare an independent state next May. Such a unilateral step, he warned, would prompt a unilateral response from Israel, and the results of the PA action would "not be good for the Palestinians, not good for Israel, not good for peace". PA chairman Yasser Arafat, who is scheduled to address the UN on Monday, is expected to repeat his plan to proclaim an independent state of Palestine next May, the date envisaged by the Oslo accords drafters for the achievement of "final status" in the negotiations for Palestinian self-determination. "The Oslo accords are not about meeting deadlines," Netanyahu said. "Their essential purpose is to reach a peace agreement through negotiations. An arbitrary, unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state, in disregard of this purpose, would constitute a fundamental violation of the Oslo Accords. It would cause the complete collapse of the process." Netanyahu said Israel and the PA "must continue to negotiate, earnestly and tirelessly, until a final peace agreement is reached. No other way will do." He called on the Palestinians to "choose peace, fight for peace", and warned against terror, violence, threats, and incitement. For a peace to endure, he said, it must be based on security and reciprocity. US State Department spokesman, James Rubin, said this week an Arafat declaration to the UN that he intends to establish a state with or without Israel's approval "would be a unilateral action we would oppose". Officials at the UN said this week that a number of European Union states would be expected to join the US in opposing such a move, THE JERUSALEM POST reports. Before leaving the PA areas for the US (via Europe), Arafat last night discussed strategy for his UN appearance with his cabinet. The cabinet endorsed the plan to declare statehood. Arafat's advisor Nabil Abu Rudeineh said Arafat's address to the UN would stress the Palestinians' right to declare its independence after the interim period ends in May. PA Cabinet Secretary Ahmed Abdul Rahman warned of violent Palestinian resistance to any Israeli military action to limit the new state. "The Palestinian people will confront the Israeli military machine with our blood and bodies if necessary," he said. "We will not accept the Israeli occupation again. Israel should think 1,000 times before carrying out any aggressive acts the Palestinian people." Abdul Rahman said the Arab and Islamic world already recognise the Palestinian state with its capital in Jerusalem, and that the PA also enjoys the support of virtually the entire international community.