quote: The Palestinian Authority president has set 26 July as the date for a controversial referendum on a statehood plan that implicitly recognises Israel. Mahmoud Abbas made the announcement in an official decree.
The Hamas movement, which leads the government, has rejected the proposal saying such a vote would be illegal.
The plan sets out formal Palestinian claims to an independent state on land occupied by Israel in 1967, and implicitly adopts a two-state solution.
From: the twilight zone between the U.S. and Canada | Registered: Aug 2002
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Rikardo
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posted 10 June 2006 07:11 PM
Thanks for this.
A referendum seems to me like a very good strategy that could possibly have been used long ago. Even if Hamas opposes it many Hamas supporters will participate. I'm really not proud that Canada was one of the first to cut off ties with the Palestine Authority. The non-recognition of Israel's so-called right-to-exist is just a tactic, understandable after so many years of Israeli intransigence and the force of the minority who think God has given all of Palestine to a group of people just on the basis of religion
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posted 10 June 2006 10:29 AM
