April 23, 2012

Interview: The PLO’s Ahmad Quray

The former Palestinian prime minister tells Asharq Al-Awsat that the PA has never ‎agreed to a land swap, and that the US is clearly disengaging from the Mideast. ‎

The condition of halting the settlement activities is right and correct. However, it is important to say that ‎I will not under any circumstances recognize any settlement bloc that has been built on the 1967 ‎territories, and I will never accept it. Syria has not said stop the settlement activities, but it said no ‎settlements after the agreement. Egypt did not say, for instance, stop the building activities in Yamit ‎‎[settlement in Sinai], but when the situation was resolved the settlement was demolished. In Gaza, ‎have they [the Israelis] not left it? Therefore, our stance ought to be clear, but without making it ‎understood that the required amendments are in exchange for the settlements. ‎

My $100k Offer to J Street & Peter ‎Beinart

Ronn Torossian of Algemeiner offers members of the left-wing pro-Israel camp a six-‎figure to extend their same message to the Jewish community in the Arab world.‎

For the challenge, they must pick three Middle Eastern Arab countries as well as Gaza, and ‎speak in open advertised forums including Mosques and Universities. They must also travel ‎without security as they do in Israel and Jewish communities. Upon completion of this tour I ‎will sign the check, which I am prepared to place in escrow today with attorneys. J Street ‎President Mr. Jeremy Ben Ami and Mr. Peter Beinart simply need to preach their message ‎of co-existence in the Arab world.‎

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