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And across the board, Palestinians are appalled by what Mr Olmert calls his "convergence" plan.
It involves Israel ceding some ground, but consolidating its hold on occupied East Jerusalem and the land behind the wall and fence barrier that it is building in the West Bank.
The great majority of settlers would remain on occupied territory.
Mr Olmert has also talked of Israel keeping the strategically important Jordan Valley.

Palestinians would find themselves stripped of some of their best land and water resources. They would be confined to central areas of the West Bank between Israeli-controlled zones.
Mr Giacaman said this would be a disaster: "Another Palestinian catastrophe - another partition of what is left of Palestine."

It is not just the political classes who talk this way.
"The plan means taking Palestinian land and dividing it," said Mohammad Shaaban, a shopkeeper on Gaza City's al-Wahde Street. "We will resist."

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"The continuation of scattered settlements throughout the West Bank creates an inseparable mix of populations that will threaten the existence of the state of Israel as a Jewish state," Olmert said. "The borders of Israel that will be formed in the coming years will be significantly different from the territories that the state of Israel holds today."

i've never heard isreal declare that they would exterminate anyone

That A-hole died for the freedom of his people. I am not sure if you have the stones to do the same if the situation was the same.

So for US to have Isreal in the middle of Hell or should I say hostile groups of populations Arabs, Iranians is a good thing. Because Arabs and Iranians has to deal with Isreal first before attacking USA.

This is funny ... What do you mean? Israel is going to shoot down Arab and Iranian long range bombers before they can make it all the way across the Atlantic Ocean.

Al Qaeda hit the World Trade Centre because they wanted to stir up shit and set the east and west against each other. Anyone with an IQ that approaches double digit can see that. However, as it appears, they have succeeded.

I remember the days following 9/11. United States had the sympathy of the world including all the Middle Eastern Nations.

There was a real opportunity to make something good out of the tragedy

I guess street celebrations praising Al Qaeda in Palestine and Iran don't count?

if my 'neighbours' declared to the whole world, that they were going drive me, and my family, into the sea..

International peacemakers have agreed on a plan to channel humanitarian aid directly to the Palestinian people -- bypassing the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority (PA). surprise statement by Mideast mediators on Tuesday did not say precisely how much or what kind of aid they would provide, but it did agree that withholding funding was harming the Palestinian people. Hamas welcomed the plan, but criticized moves to sideline the PA.

The U.S. and EU have withheld aid from the Palestinians for several months as part of an effort to pressure the new Hamas-led government toward a more accommodating stance with Israel. Israel has also refused to transfer $55 million in monthly tax revenues it collects for the Palestinian Authority. And in a separate development Wednesday, the Israeli company that provides fuel to the Palestinians said it was cutting off supplies because of mounting debts. Mujahed Salameh, director general of the Palestinian Petroleum Agency, said petrol and cooking gas would run out within 24 hours. "There will be an economic catastrophe," Salameh was quoted as saying by Reuters. "Many factories, bakeries and transport will stop working."

Mediators

The so-called Quartet of Mideast mediators -- the U.S., EU, Russia and the UN, met in New York Tuesday and later announced a "temporary mechanism" would be set up to bypass the Hamas-led Palestinian government so money could be channelled directly to the Palestinian people. Representatives from Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan also met the main mediators on Tuesday. They warned the Quartet that failure to resume aid could eventually lead to civil war between the different Palestinian factions, Reuters news agency reported. "The Quartet expressed serious concern about deteriorating conditions in the West Bank and Gaza," UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Tuesday.

Bloc Quebecois MP Francine Lalonde asked the minority Conservative government on Wednesday whether they would respect the Quartet's so-called "temporary mechanism."
"There has to be some temporary international mechanism, which would allow for aid to be given to the Palestinian people. Would the minister agree that this should be done?" Lalonde asked during question period on Wednesday. Peter Van Loan, the parliamentary secretary to Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay told the House of Commons that the government was mulling the Quartet's announcement."We will be examining whether that represents an option for us," Van Loan responded.

The latest agreement represents a slight softening of the hard U.S. line against financial engagement with Hamas -- the militant Islamic group that has conducted numerous terrorist attacks. The United States, the European Union and Israel list Hamas as a terrorist organization. Speaking Wednesday in Ramallah on the West Bank, Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh slammed the United States and its Western allies for demands on his government, but did not reject the temporary program."The Quartet brings from time to time conditions to force the government to concede the rights and recognize the legality of the occupation," Ismail Haniyeh said. "I believe the government will remain faithful to the Palestinian rights and will keep seeking the equation that protects the Palestinian people.

Broke

Overseas donations, mostly from Europe, have long sustained the cash-strapped and bloated Palestinian government. Hamas won the elections in part because of a record of providing services that the previous secular Fatah leadership did not. However, the months of aid cutoff has left the Palestinian government virtually broke and increasingly unable to provide basic services. Some 165,000 government workers, whose incomes had supported one-third of Palestinian families, have not been paid for the past two months, and the World Bank warned this week of an impending crisis.

Frustrations rose to the surface over the weekend, when hundreds of Palestinians staged strikes and demonstrations in the West Bank and Gaza to demand payment. European governments in particular have been alarmed at the worsening plight for unemployed Palestinians and concerned that charities and UN agencies could not meet the demand for services or handle the amount of money that might be needed. They pressed the U.S. to agree to the new humanitarian fund, even though that kind of assistance may be an indirect benefit to Hamas. The U.S. agreed on condition the fund be temporary and limited to programs that meet basic needs, a senior State Department official said. "It would be against our values to let people starve," said Marc Otte, the EU's special envoy for the Mideast.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the European Union would take the lead in setting up the new fund. The U.S. also said it would separately give $10M US in aid to the Palestinians through medical and children's charities.

And in a separate development Wednesday, the Israeli company that provides fuel to the Palestinians said it was cutting off supplies because of mounting debts