Arabic News Weekly Edition for Palestine, 11/1/1999
Weekly Edition, Palestine - Week of November 1, 1999
- Palestinian Authority: Oslo two is a new push for peace Palestine, Politics, 11/6/1999
- Crisis between the settlers and Barak
Things deteriorated yesterday between the Israeli settlers and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak due to their refusal to evacuate the settlements as Barak specified, while another group of settlers started establishing new settlements in the occupied Arab lands. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 11/6/1999 - Al-Sharaa confers with al-Qaddoumi
Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa on Thursday afternoon received the chairman of the PLO political department, Farouk al-Qaddoumi. Deputy Foreign Minister Suleiman Haddad attended the meeting. Syria-Palestine-China, Politics, 11/5/1999 - Arafat resumes criticism of Israeli policy Palestine-Israel, Politics, 11/4/1999
- Hawatemah in Jordan to make efforts for his return to Palestinian territories Palestine-Jordan, Politics, 11/4/1999
- Algerian, Palestinian condemnation of Mauritania's diplomatic relations with Israel
A group of Algerian dignitaries and national parties have condemned the step taken by Mauritania in establishing diplomatic relations with Israel. Algeria-Palestine, Politics, 11/4/1999 - Arafat welcomes convening a summit similar to Camp David
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat expressed his approval to the idea raised by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak to convene a summit like the 1979 Camp David summit between Egypt and Israel to push forward the final status negotiations and reach a final settlement between the Palestinians and Israelis. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 11/4/1999 - Syrian paper: What does the Palestinian Authority want from Lebanon?
The first Syrian position revealed on Tuesday concerning the deathsentence in absentia against the secretary of the Fatah movement in Lebanon, Sultan Abu al-Einin, indicated increasing doubts that diplomatic mediation will succeed in dealing with this issue. Palestine-Syria, Politics, 11/4/1999 - Clinton: Progress on final status will bring summit
US President Bill Clinton said yesterday that the focus of Palestinian - Israeli talks now is on rapid progress, saying, "We have a very ambitious timetable here. I think the timetable is the middle of February that they've agreed to have the framework agreement," and adding, "We'll all be in high gear between now and then." Palestine-Israel-USA, Politics, 11/3/1999 - Palestinian minister pessimistic on the results of Oslo 2
Palestinian Minister of Civil Affairs Jamil Al Tarifi said today that the Palestinian side did not expect much of the Oslo trilateral summit in which US President Bill Clinton, Palestinian President Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak participated. Palestine, Politics, 11/3/1999 - Hawatemah: Oslo is done
The leader of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Nayef Hawatemah, said he believes that the Oslo accord is finished, saying, "Now it is required to get into negotiations of the final status." He said his front will not be far from these negotiations, but he said, "Each stage of struggle has its own proper means." Palestine, Politics, 11/3/1999 - Former Israeli premier: palestinian state is essential for Israel
Israeli former prime minister, Shimon Peres, said in Oslo on Tuesday that a Palestinian state will come to being if a Kosovo-like situation is to be avoided in Israel. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 11/3/1999 - Arafat asks the mediation of the Arab League for Abu al-Einin Lebanon-Palestine, Politics, 11/3/1999
- Clinton, Barak, Arafat speak at Oslo memorial service
At a memorial ceremony in Oslo, Norway honoring the late Yitzhak Rabin, whose Israeli government reached the Oslo Accords with the Palestinians, Clinton said, "We have now a chance, but only a chance, to bring real and lasting peace between Israel and her neighbors. If we let it slip away, all will bear the consequences: Israel still trapped within a circle of hostility; the Palestinians still saddled with poverty and frustration and pain; both and their Arab neighbors wrapped in an endless and pointless cycle of conflict." Palestine-Israel-USA, Politics, 11/2/1999 - Palestinian Abu al-Einin waiting for political solutions
The secretary of the Fatah movement in Lebanon, Sultan Abu al-Einin, said that nothing is new in the case of his being convicted to death in absentia taken against him by the Lebanese courts, adding that he is "waiting for political treatment to take its due course." Lebanon-Palestine, Politics, 11/2/1999 - No expectations from Oslo summit
The official final status talks are due to start next week in Ramallah but Palestinian expectations are very low. The gap separating the Palestinian demands and the guidelines of the Israeli government are too large to be bridged by hopes, one Palestinian observer commented Monday. Palestine-Israel-USA, Politics, 11/1/1999