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Palestinians count on world to pressure Israel for peace

AFP, Jerusalem
Dismayed by the conditions set by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in accept Ing the creation of a Palestinian state, the Palestinians are counting on the world to pressure the Israeli leader
After months of US pressure, Netanyahu broke with the ideology of his right-wing Likud party late Sunday, but imposed a torrent of conditions, including some already rejected by the Palestinians.
"After Netanyahu's speech, it has become clear that we are faced with an Israeli government that in reality refuses the two-state solution, the stop of settlement activity and the re-launch of negotiation from the point where they left off,-' senior Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat told AFP.
"The question now is what will the United States and the Quartet do, he said, referring to the international Middle East mediation group that comprises the European Union, Russia, the United Nations and the United States.
Immediately following the speech, the Palestinian leadership entered into contact with the US administration and European and Arab countries "to explain that Netanyahu did nothing but say five ’no's," Erakatsaid. He said no to the two-state solution, no to a settlement freeze, no to the vision of (US) President Barack Obama for a new Middle East, no to the restart of negotiations at the point that they were stopped and no to the Arab peace initiative," Erakat said
The 2002 Arab peace initiative offers Israel a lull normalisation with the Arab world in exchange for withdrawing from Arab lands seized in the 1967 Six Day War, the creation of a Palestinian state and a return of refugees.
In his speech on Sunday, Netanyahu laid out a series of conditions for a final peace deal -- Palestinian recognition of Israel as a state of the Jewish people, their own state will have to be demilitarised, have no control of its air space, no ability to forge military pacts.
In addition Israel must have ironclad security guarantees and the Palestinian refugees will have to be resettled outside of the Jewish state's borders.
Netanyahu also refused to cede to US calls for a complete halt to settlement activity in the occupied West Bank. Settlement extension is one of the key obstacles to the hobbled peace process.
The White House and the Czech presidency of the European Union both termed Netanyahu's speech as a step forward.
But those reactions "do not mean that the US administration or the world accept everything else that he said," Yasser Abed Rabbo, a senior aide to Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, told official Palestinian radio.
' He spoke of a demilitarised state, but he also stripped it of all sovereignty attributes, transforming it into a protectorate of isolated cantons," he said.
"Netanyahu is defying the world. The international community should reply by pressure to isolate Netanyahu and his policies and force Israel to submit to the peace process," he said.
According to Hafez al-Barghuti, the editor-in-chief of the Palestinian official daily, Al-Hayat al-Jadida, the Israeli premier had "spit in the face of all those who were betting that Obama's magic wand will erase the settlements and force Netanyahu... to accept the two-state solution."
Abdelmajid Soweilem, a political science professor at Al-Quds University, said that the first US and European reactions to the speech were "very frustrating for the Palestinians."
"I don't understand why the United States and Europe feel obliged to treat this government gently at our expense," he said. "But I think that the real Israeli position will be very quickly revealed."