Epstein Secrets

o treaty and violated no solemn agreement. They won't have signed a "no further claims" clause or a "no more war" commitment, as Barak, Clinton and Olmert had demanded as essential components of a two-state peace settlement. They will have received their mini-state, a launching pad for further assaul

and former US president Bill Clinton had offered Arafat in December 2000 (the Clinton "Parameters") and this is what former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert offered Abbas in 2008—and this is what both Palestinian leaders rejected. Palestinian strategy is rather simple (and not particularly clever, thou

stablish a state and achieve international recognition of such statehood by September when, it is expected, the matter will be brought to a vote at the UN General Assembly. Many observers in the West seem to regard this campaign, masterminded by Mahmoud Abbas and Salam Fayyad, respectively the Palestinian Authority's

September 2011) 559 President Abbas’s Speech to UN General Assembly on Palestine’s Membership (23 September 2011) 562

eement. 27 April 1949 Opening of the Lausanne Conference convened by the United Nations’ Conciliation Commission for Palestine (UNCCP). 11 May 1949 The UN General Assembly admits Israel as UN member state through Resolution A/RES/273 (IID. 20 July 1949 Syria-Israel General Armistice Agreement. 12 December 1949 UN Gene

nese leaders brokered by Qatar. 21 May 2008 Israel and Syria announce holding indirect talks through Turkish mediation. 30 July 2008 Prime Minister Olmert announces he is not seeking re-election. 15 October 2008 Establishment of diplomatic relations between Syria and Lebanon. 16 December 2008 Last mee

n September on independence. They will prevail in the General Assembly, though not in the Security Council. President Ba

ersion of Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, “Mr. Nyet,” a man who will be bypassed by history. Here is what Netanyahu’s immediate predecessor, Ehud Olmert, said in a widely reported speech to the Israeli Knesset in 2008: “We must give up Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem and return to the core of the terr

nd return to the core of the territory that is the State of Israel prior to 1967, with minor corrections dictated by the reality created since then.” Olmert, a man with a reputation as a hard-liner, said that meant Israel would keep about 6 percent of the West Bank — the major settlements — and give up la

rkey and Israel have been suspended. Turkey will not recognize the Gaza HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024999 --- PAGE BREAK --- blockade and will take action at the UN General Assembly to make sure that the matter is discussed in the International Court of Justice (ICJ). And finally, Turkey will extend full support to the families o

yyip Erdogan had begun to sour on Israel following Israel’s incursion into Gaza in late 2008. Erdogan was miffed that the then Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert, who had visited him in Ankara HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025002 --- PAGE BREAK --- ? only four days before the impending hostilities in Gaza, kept him in d