WEST BANK: PALESTINIANS LEADERS AND ISRAELI SETTLERS DISMISS PRIME MINISTER ARIEL SHARON'S SPEECH IN WHICH HE REPEATED PROMISES TO REMOVE JEWISH OUTPOSTS

Record ID: 400640

  • Title: WEST BANK: PALESTINIANS LEADERS AND ISRAELI SETTLERS DISMISS PRIME MINISTER ARIEL SHARON'S SPEECH IN WHICH HE REPEATED PROMISES TO REMOVE JEWISH OUTPOSTS
  • Date: 6th January 2004
  • Summary: (U3) RAMALLAH, WEST BANK (JANUARY 6 2004) (REUTERS) 1. SV PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT YASSER ARAFAT ARRIVING AND PLANTING AN OLIVE TREE IN HIS COMPOUND IN RAMALLAH (4 SHOTS) 0.40 2. MCU (ARABIC) PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT YASSER ARAFAT SAYING: "What Sharon said in his speech proves what we've said before that he does not want to implement the road map, it's
  • Embargoed: 21st January 2004 12:00
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  • Location: RAMALLAH AND MIGRON OUTPOST, WEST BANK
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  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVAEB3DGPPMNHEZ8S6WVMIB4S2EX
  • Story Text: Arafat furious at Sharon disengagement threat,
    Israeli settlers sceptical over pledge to remove some
    outposts.




    Palestinian leaders and Israeli settlers dismissed
    Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's speech, in which he repeated
    promises to remove Jewish outposts as part of a final peace
    agreement with the Palestinians.

    Sharon, confronting jeering rightist hardliners in his
    Likud party, vowed on Monday (January 5) to pursue a
    unilateral plan to quit some occupied land and shorten
    security lines against Palestinians.

    Die-hard rightists repeatedly disrupted Sharon's
    address to a party convention, furious both with the plan
    and his stated preference for a negotiated solution to the
    Middle East conflict via a U.S.-backed "road map" plan for
    Palestinian statehood.

    He reiterated that Palestinians would wind up with much
    less territory if Israel enacted the separation measures
    than if they halted suicide bombings and other violence and
    negotiated permanent peace through the road map.

    Nationalists who dominate the 3,000-strong Central
    Committee but not its rank-and-file, which tends to
    moderate right, have have rebelled over Sharon's statements
    that some Jewish settlers will have to be uprooted whatever
    plan is put into effect.




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