"Historic" Fatah congress opened in West Bank.Summary: Former Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia on Tuesday opened Fatah's three-day congress Former Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia on Tuesday opened Fatah's three-day congress telling delegates, "In the name of the martyrs and in the name of Jerusalem, the capital of the Palestinian state The Palestinian state (Arabic (دولة فلسطين) is a proposed country. The proposed location includes the Gaza Strip and the autonomously controlled areas of the West Bank, currently controlled by the Palestinian National , we hereby declare the opening of the sixth congress of our movement, the Fatah movement." Nearly 2,000 delegates arrived in Bethlehem for congress--its first in twenty years TWENTY YEARS. The lapse of twenty years raises a presumption of certain facts, and after such a time, the party against whom the presumption has been raised, will be required to prove a negative to establish his rights. 2. . Israel has reportedly permitted several Palestinians from countries such as Lebanon and Syria, to enter the West Bank for the congress. The Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. reported, however, that Israel barred some Fatah representatives from attending, including two men accused of involvement in the attack on Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games Olympic games, premier athletic meeting of ancient Greece, and, in modern times, series of international sports contests. The Olympics of Ancient Greece Although records cannot verify games earlier than 776 B.C. in Munich. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told attendees that holding the congress in the Palestinian territories "is a significant and historic event." "The Palestinian people really want their rights based on the international legitimacy. Our people believe in peace and in the negotiations to achieve this peace and establish our state beside the state of Israel," Abbas said. He added that the PA will not sign peace accord with Israel as long as the latter jails over 11,000 Palestinians. A draft of Fatah's new platform reportedly proposes to quiet yet maintain its "armed struggle" against Israel. It calls instead for civil disobedience civil disobedience, refusal to obey a law or follow a policy believed to be unjust. Practitioners of civil disobediance basing their actions on moral right and usually employ the nonviolent technique of passive resistance in order to bring wider attention to the against Israel and the opening of "a strategic channel to Iran." The draft also refused to recognize Israel as a Jewish state and not to speak with Israel until it freezes all construction in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. The draft also reportedly endorsed the Saudi peace initiative, which attempts to normalize normalize to convert a set of data by, for example, converting them to logarithms or reciprocals so that their previous non-normal distribution is converted to a normal one. Israeli-Arab relations in exchange for Israel's complete evacuation of land occupied in the 1967 war. This includes the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Golan Heights and East Jerusalem. It also calls for the creation of a Palestinian state along the 1967 armistice Armistice (Nov. 11, 1918) Agreement between Germany and the Allies ending World War I. Allied representatives met with a German delegation in a railway carriage at Rethondes, France, to discuss terms. The agreement was signed on Nov. lines, if peace talk fail. 2009 Al Bawaba (www.albawaba.com) 2009 Al Bawaba (Albawaba.com) Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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