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Date: 2001-10-14 10:14:27

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           U.S. creating new plan for a Palestinian state
                          October 14, 2001
                            BY KARIN LAUB
                              Sun Times
       http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-meast14.html
JERUSALEM--The United States is putting together a Mideast peace plan
that calls for establishing a Palestinian state with a foothold in
Jerusalem, and Palestinians have won assurances that the ideas will be
unveiled despite initial delays, a Palestinian Cabinet minister said
Friday.
Israel said Friday it has not been presented with the ideas but
registered reservations about key elements that have been reported.
Israeli Cabinet Minister Dan Naveh said Israel staunchly opposes
''ideas which include at their core the establishment of a Palestinian
state with Jerusalem as its capital.''
In Washington, a U.S. official confirmed that a Mideast proposal is in
the works and that it should be ready in about a month. A tentative
time for going public is mid-November, during the United Nations
General Assembly session, said the official, who spoke on condition of
anonymity. He would not discuss details of the plan.
The United States has not presented the emerging proposals to Israel
or the Palestinians, officials from both sides said.
But Palestinian officials say the United States has been discussing
the plan with some other Arab nations. The Palestinians have been
briefed on the U.S. ideas by Arab leaders, most recently last week
when Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat visited Saudi Arabia, said Nabil
Shaath, the Palestinian planning minister.
The Bush administration was to have unveiled the peace initiative in
September before the UN General Assembly. That move was disrupted by
the Sept. 11 terror attacks on the United States. The General Assembly
session was postponed in response to the attacks.
Shaath said the Palestinians were told that President Bush remains
committed to the ideas. ''In President Arafat's last visit to Saudi
Arabia, just two days ago, our brothers informed us that the Americans
assured them that they are still sticking to their positions,'' Shaath
said. ''All the indications coming now from the United States are
positive and encouraging.''
According to Shaath, the U.S. plan would affirm the Palestinians'
right to statehood, the principle of trading land for peace, and call
for an Israeli withdrawal from lands it occupied in the 1967 Mideast
war.
The initiative also says the fate of disputed Jerusalem must be
determined in peace talks and that Islamic and Christian holy places
in the city would come under Palestinian control, Shaath said.
That outline is similar to various proposals made by Israel and
President Bill Clinton about a year ago. But the Palestinians rejected
the proposals as insufficient, and fighting erupted in September 2000.

A key problem was Israel's rejection of the Palestinians' demand that
refugees from the 1948 war--potentially numbering up to 4 million--be
allowed to return to its territory.
The renewed U.S. efforts come at a time when Washington is trying to
win Muslim and Arab support for air strikes against Afghanistan, which
has rebuffed requests to surrender accused terrorist Osama bin Laden.
State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said last week that Israeli
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon sees that any Mideast peace settlement
would involve a Palestinian state. Asked about provisions for
Jerusalem, he said: ''We're not at a moment where somebody is going to
plunk down a map of Jerusalem.''
Naveh said Israel has not been informed by the United States about a
peace plan but that ''what's being said by the American government
these days is a program that Israel cannot accept.''
Naveh was sharply critical of previous U.S. initiatives, including
ideas put forth in the 1980s by President Ronald Reagan.
''All history shows that when the Americans put a plan on the table,
like the famous Reagan plan, the programs did not achieve their
aims,'' Naveh said.
''The United States helped achieve progress between Israel and the
Arabs only when it did not publicly put a plan on the table, but
conducted quiet contacts between the sides.''
Arafat is not doing enough now to prevent attacks on Israelis, Naveh
said, and should not be rewarded.
AP

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