Itongadol/AJN.- PLO Secretary-General Yasser Abed Rabbo says proposals offered by US secretary of state are "Israeli ideas."
Palestinian Authority officials on Thursday stepped up their criticism of US Secretary John Kerry’s proposals for peace with Israel.
PLO Secretary-General Yasser Abed Rabbo said that Kerry’s proposals were Israelis “ideas.”
The PA leadership, Abed Rabbo said, cannot accept the proposals, mainly because it remains unclear when Israel would pull out of the West Bank and east Jerusalem.
Abed Rabbo told the Voice of Palestine radio station that Kerry’s proposals offer the Palestinians “general and vague” formulas about the fate of Jerusalem.
The proposals also call for “slicing” parts of the Jordan Valley and making them part of Israel and scrapping the “right of return” for Palestinian refugees, the PLO official charged.
Hanan Ashrawi, member of the PLO Executive Committee, denied reports that the PA leadership had agreed to a gradual Israeli withdrawal over a period of three years.
Ashrawi said that these reports were untrue and have a negative impact on the higher interests of the Palestinians.
Tawfik Tirawi, a top Fatah official and former PA security commander, said that Kerry’s proposals were completely unacceptable to the Palestinians.
“We don’t want framework agreements, but a final solution,” Tirawi told reporters in Ramallah.