“Netanyahu is opposed to actions such as annexing settlements to Israel in response to a Palestinian move at the UN,” WHY?
Israel looking into revoking Oslo Accords in response to Palestinian UN bid
bY Barak Ravid, HAARETZ
A team headed by National Security Adviser Ya’akov Amidror is looking into calling off the Oslo Accords in response to the Palestinian Authority’s unilateral plan to gain United Nations recognition for an independent state.
The Prime Minister’s Bureau confirmed yesterday only that the NSC was discussing many alternatives ahead of September, and would be presenting them to the political echelon for a decision when it was done.
Israeli officials did confirm that recent discussions held by Amidror had mentioned the option of voiding the Oslo Accords. However, this is not considered a leading alternative, they said.
“It is one of the options that will be presented to the political echelon,” a source said.
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A senior Israeli official said that three weeks ago, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Amidror to start drafting day-after plans with other government bodies. These include recommending a potential Israeli political response.
Another senior Israel official noted that Amidror has started initial discussions at the NSC with representatives from the foreign, defense, finance, industry and trade, and justice ministries, as well as from the Israel Defense Forces Planning Bureau and the Military Advocate General’s Department of International Law.
The NSC asked the various government offices to consider the implications of Israel announcing that it considers the Oslo Accords void due to the unilateral Palestinian move, should the General Assembly approve the bid.
Israel is concerned that the Palestinians may use the General Assembly resolution in order to launch a legal fight in the International Court at the Hague, or to try to alter the economic and security arrangements reached over the past 18 years.
NSC officials told representatives of the various government and military bodies that Israel would not initiate such a move, but may do so in response to the Palestinian actions. The various bodies were asked to present their views and legal opinions, and to offer possible responses. The matter has still not been discussed by the ministers.
“Netanyahu is opposed to actions such as annexing settlements to Israel in response to a Palestinian move at the UN,” said an Israeli source familiar with the discussions. “Therefore, the NSC is evaluating other possibilities, one of them being voiding the Oslo Accords. In any case, there is no decision yet.”
The Oslo Accords between Israel and the PLO were struck between 1993 and 1995, and are the legal framework for the relationship between Israel and the Palestinian Authority in matters including security, economy and infrastructure.
Doing away with the accords would require reexamining key issues, primarily the status of the PA in the West Bank.
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman had mentioned doing away with the Oslo Accords during a meeting with European Union High Representative Catherine Ashton on June 17.
Even though Lieberman supports such a response to a unilateral Palestinian move, officials at the Foreign Ministry consider such action “counterproductive.”
Lynne, can you please explain to me why the Hamas Charter as well as those of Hezbollah and the PLO are not front and center in the dialog on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? These make every other notion about this conflict null and void in my opinion, yet they are not even part of the dialog – as if they don’t exist.
The Oslo Accords as well as the notion of “revoking” them are also two sides of an elaborate farce.
How can you have an “accord” with an adversary that has not even recognized you?
http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?ID=223181&R=R1
With this as background, I believe Israel should retake Gaza and formally annex it and the West Bank at the next opportunity to defend itself, and then tell everyone in the world community to go screw themselves. They should simultaneously deport anyone who does not renounce violence to Egypt, Lebanon, Syria or Jordan.
That’s what Genghis Khan would have done, except he would decapitate and fertilize rather than deport.
No talks until the Palestinians a) accept Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state, b) renounce violence, and c) formally and publicly re-write their charters to reflect these changes.
If you’re going to have a status quo why not have it on your terms? These things become permanent eventually.
This would even make the settlements more defensible instead of the farce of building settlements on land Israel has agreed is “negotiable”, i.e. may not eventually belong to them. Then they make it worse by withdrawing from Gaza and destroying the settlements there as if to prove they should not have been built in the first place.
And I’m not even Jewish! Do I qualify as a guest lecturer at your CLE Course? LOL!
Long overdue! I have taught the Oslo Accords as part of a Continuing Legal Education (“CLE”) Course to Pennsylvania attorneys. Arafat took the porposed country on a silver platter, transferred the silver into his own account, and directed a reign of terror on Israel in response to Oslo. Oslo has no clothes.
A welcome development – and about time too!
WTF is wrong w/Haaretz? The commens on that thread are like a sewer.