Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - Fresh talk of Palestinian statehood from officials in Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office this week has worried Israeli conservatives and delighted leftwing liberals.The Israeli daily Ha'aretz quoted officials this week as saying that Olmert "is ready to discuss 'an agreement of principles' that would create a Palestinian state made up of 90 percent of the land in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank in addition to linking the two with a tunnel."Vice Prime Minister Haim Ramon said on Friday that Israel should move quickly to reach an agreement on the principles that would govern a final status deal between Israel and the Palestinians. "I believe right now we have a partner," Ramon said in a radio interview. "I don't know for how long,
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Doudoune Parajumpers Alaska region next week.Gershon Baskin, director of the leftwing Israel-Palestine Center for Research and Information, said Ramon's comments represented "a good step forward." He suggested that an international conference announced by President Bush last week and planned for the fall be postponed until Israel and the Palestinians can come up with an agreement of principles.Ramon's comments, said Baskin, are tantamount to the "re-opening of permanent status negotiations," which have been stalled since the Palestinian intifadah (uprising) in 2000. Those talks should pick up where they left off then, he said.Baskin admitted that there are risks involved and that the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip could be repeated in the West Bank if Israel pulls its troops out of Palestinian areas. Olmert's spokeswoman Miri Eisen said on Thursday that Israel and the Palestinians would never go back to the way things were before Palestinians launched the 2000 intifadah."What happened changed the rules of the game," Eisen said. Israel learned lessons during that time and is looking at the risks now and how it fought terrorism, she said.Israel is not ready to talk about the "core issues" in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, she said.Yariv Oppenheimer, the director-general of the liberal Peace Now, said there is nothing new in Ramon's remarks. The platform on which Olmert's Kadima party was elected included the idea of ceding large parts of the West Bank, he said.Oppenheimer said by telephone that while Ramon's statement was "very positive," he didn't believe that Olmert would act "to promote this kind of vision."But many Israelis are skeptical about the prospects of peace with Abbas or his Fatah faction, which has been heavily involved in terror attacks against Israelis for years.Former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Zalman Shoval said earlier that current diplomatic efforts are "all talk." "There is no partner to make peace with at this time," Shoval said by telephone. It's not only because Hamas is in control of the Gaza Strip and Abbas' authority is limited, but Abbas should be totally unacceptable from Israel's perspective, he said.Yishay Hollender, spokesman for the YESHA Council representing Israeli communities in the West Bank, said that a majority of Israelis now believe that Israel's unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip two years ago was a "huge mistake."When asked what should be done with the West Bank in the future, most say it would be a "dangerous move" to force further withdrawals, Hollender told Cybercast News Service.According to an opinion poll published in the Israeli Hebrew daily Ma'ariv this week, some 59 percent of Israelis believe that the Gaza Strip withdrawal was a mistake, while 74 percent oppose any further unilateral withdrawals.Israel uprooted 21 Gaza Strip and four
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