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イスラエルについてのオバマ氏への提言 ウリ アブネリ氏 Part I I

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13) The terms of Israeli-Palestinian peace are clear. They
have been crystallized in thousands of hours of negotiations,
conferences, meetings and conversations. They are:

13.1) A sovereign and viable State of Palestine will be
established side by side with the State of Israel.

13.2) The border between the two states will be based on the
pre-1967 Armistice Line (the "Green Line"). Insubstantial
alterations can be arrived at by mutual agreement on an
exchange of territories on a 1:1 basis.

13.3) East Jerusalem, including the Haram-al-Sharif
("Temple Mount") and all Arab neighborhoods will serve as the
capital of Palestine. West Jerusalem, including the Western
Wall and all Jewish neighborhoods, will serve as the capital
of Israel. A joint municipal authority, based on equality,
may be established by mutual consent to administer the city as
one territorial unit.

13.4) All Israeli settlements--except any which might be
joined to Israel in the framework of a mutually agreed exchange
of territories-- will be evacuated (see 15 below).

13.5) Israel will recognize in principle the right of the
refugees to return. A Joint Commission for Truth and
Reconciliation, composed of Palestinian, Israeli and
international historians, will examine the events of 1948 and
1967 and determine who was responsible for what. Each
individual refugee will be given the choice between

(1) repatriation to the State of Palestine,
(2) remaining where he/she is living now and receiving
generous compensation,
(3) returning to Israel and being resettled,
(4) emigrating to any other country, with generous compensation.
The number of refugees who will return to Israeli territory will
be fixed by mutual agreement, it being understood that nothing
will be done that materially alters the demographic composition
of the Israeli population. The large funds needed for the
implementation of this solution must be provided by the
international community in the interest of world peace. This
will save much of the money spent today on military expenditure
and direct grants from the US.

13.6) The West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip
constitute one national unit. An extraterritorial connection
(road, railway, tunnel or bridge) will connect the West Bank
with the Gaza Strip.

13.7) Israel and Syria will sign a peace agreement. Israel will
withdraw to the pre-1967 line and all settlements on the Golan
Heights will be dismantled. Syria will cease all anti-Israeli
activities conducted directly or by proxy. The two parties will
establish normal relations between them.

13.8) In accordance with the Saudi Peace Initiative, all member
states of the Arab League will recognize Israel and establish
normal relations with it. Talks about a future Middle Eastern
Union, on the model of the EU, possibly to include Turkey and
Iran, may be considered.

14) Palestinian unity is essential for peace. Peace made with
only one section of the people is worthless. The US will
facilitate Palestinian reconciliation and the unification of
Palestinian structures. To this end, the US will end its boycott
of Hamas, which won the last elections, start a political
dialogue with the movement and encourage Israel to do the same.
The US will respect any result of democratic Palestinian
elections.

15) The US will aid the government of Israel in confronting the
settlement problem. As from now, settlers will be given one year
to leave the occupied territories voluntarily in return for
compensation that will allow them to build their homes in
Israel proper. After that, all settlements--except those
within any areas to be joined to Israel under the peace
agreement--will be evacuated.

16) I suggest that you, as president of the United States, come
to Israel and address the Israeli people personally, not only
from the rostrum of the Knesset but also at a mass rally in
Tel-Aviv's Rabin Square. President Anwar Sadat of Egypt came
to Israel in 1977, and, by addressing the Israeli people
directly, completely changed their attitude towards peace
with Egypt. At present, most Israelis feel insecure, uncertain
and afraid of any daring peace initiative, partly because of
a deep distrust of anything coming from the Arab side. Your
personal intervention, at the critical moment, could literally
do wonders in creating the psychological basis for peace.

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イスラエルについてのオバマ氏への提言 ウリ アブネリ氏 Part I

イスラエルの平和運動グループ グシュ シャローム Gush Shalomの創設者、代表、ジャーナリストである　ウリ アブネリ氏から次期アメリカ大統領オバマ氏へのパレスチナ問題、中東平和実現に関する提言

ウリ・アブネリ（Uri Avnery）氏はドイツに生まれ、1948年のイスラエル建国戦争に軍事として参加し、1950〜1990年までイスラエルの国会議員も努めました。イスラエルによるパレスチナ占領の停止とパレスチナの独立国家創設、平和裏な実現を目す団体「グッシュ・シャローム」の設立（92年）に大きく寄与しています。

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A Memo to Obama on Israel

December 29, 2008

The following humble suggestions are based on my 70 years of
experience as an underground fighter, special forces soldier in
the 1948 war, editor-in-chief of a newsmagazine, member of
the Knesset and founding member of a peace movement:

•A Memo to Obama on Israel

Israeli/Palestinian Conflict
Uri Avnery: The following humble suggestions are based on my 70
years of experience as an underground fighter, member of the
Knesset and founding member of a peace movement in Israel.

1) As far as Israeli-Arab peace is concerned, you should act
from Day One.

2) Israeli elections are due to take place in February 2009.
You can have an indirect but important and constructive impact
on the outcome, by announcing your unequivocal determination to
achieve Israeli-Palestinian, Israeli-Syrian and Israeli-all-Arab
peace in 2009.

3) Unfortunately, all your predecessors since 1967 have played
a double game. While paying lip service to peace, and sometimes
going through the motions of making some effort for peace, they
have in practice supported our governments in moving in the very
opposite direction. In particular, they have given tacit approval
to the building and enlargement of Israeli settlements in the
occupied Palestinian and Syrian territories, each of which is a
land mine on the road to peace.

4) All the settlements are illegal in international law.
The distinction sometimes made between "illegal" outposts and
the other settlements is a propaganda ploy designed to obscure
this simple truth.

5) All the settlements since 1967 have been built with the
express purpose of making a Palestinian state--and hence peace--
impossible, by cutting the territory of the prospective State
of Palestine into ribbons. Practically all our government
departments and the army have openly or secretly helped to build,
consolidate and enlarge the settlements--as confirmed by the
2005 report prepared for the government by lawyer Talia Sasson.

6) By now, the number of settlers in the West Bank has reached
some 250,000 (apart from the 200,000 settlers in the Greater
Jerusalem area, whose status is somewhat different.) They are
politically isolated, and sometimes detested by the majority of
the Israel public, but enjoy significant support in the army
and government ministries.

7) No Israeli government would dare to confront the concentrated
political and material might of the settlers. Such a confrontation
would need very strong leadership and the unstinting support of
the President of the United States to have any chance of success.

8) Lacking these, all "peace negotiations" are a sham. The Israeli
government and its US backers have done everything possible to
prevent the negotiations with both the Palestinians and the
Syrians from reaching any conclusion, for fear of provoking a
confrontation with the settlers and their supporters. The present
"Annapolis" negotiations are as hollow as all the preceding ones,
each side keeping up the pretense for its own political interests.

9) The Clinton administration, and even more so the Bush
administration, allowed the Israeli government to keep up this
pretense. It is therefore imperative to prevent members of these
administrations from diverting your Middle Eastern policy into
the old channels.

10) It is important for you to make a complete new start, and to
state this publicly. Discredited ideas and failed initiatives--
such as the Bush "vision", the Road Map, Annapolis and the
like--should by thrown into the junkyard of history.

11) To make a new start, the aim of American policy should be
stated clearly and succinctly. This should be: to achieve a peace
based on the two-state solution within a defined time span
(say by the end of 2009).

12) It should be pointed out that this aim is based on a
reassessment of the American national interest, in order to
extract the poison from American-Arab and American-Muslim
relations, strengthen peace-oriented regimes, defeat
al-Qaeda-type terrorism, end the Iraq and Afghanistan wars
and achieve a viable accommodation with Iran.



　　to be continued ....

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