Ägypten und Jordanien frieren Kontakte ein, JETZT OFFIZIEL!

Geschrieben von peacemaker2002 am 03. April 2002 19:10:28:

hallo silvermoon, hi it-oma

und jetzt offiziel..

Arab Hard-Liners Propose Plan
The Associated Press, Wed 3 Apr 2002


CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — Arab hard-liners have mapped out a strategy that includes cutting off diplomatic ties with Israel and oil
supplies to America, but moderates were unlikely to let such ideas dominate a planned Arab League foreign ministers' meeting.

Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak looked to the United States to move instead, sending a message to President Bush late Tuesday
urging him ``take immediate action that will stop — as soon as possible — the violent military campaign undertaken by Israel to
occupy Palestinian-controlled areas,'' Egypt's Middle East News agency reported.

The Palestinians also are pushing for tough action. Palestinian Planning Minister Nabil Shaath said Tuesday it may be time for
Egypt and Jordan to annul their separate peace treaties with Israel.

``We've never called for that before because we were seeking relations with the Israelis ourselves,'' Shaath told The Associated
Press at Arab League headquarters in Cairo. ``We never called for anything which would go against the peace process. But today,
Israel has destroyed every chance for the peace process.''

Arab diplomats said Wednesday that 17 Arab League members had agreed to send representatives to a foreign ministers meeting in
Cairo on Thursday. The meeting was requested by the Palestinians to forge a unified stance against Israel's invasion of Palestinian
cities and quarantining of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

At a meeting Tuesday of lower-ranking diplomats attached to the league, Iraq proposed an agenda for the foreign ministers'
consultations. According to Arab diplomats, Iraq suggested among other proposals that Arabs pull out of the U.S.-led international
coalition against terrorism.

While Iraq portrayed the move as a way to force the United States to pressure Israel, its motivation may be selfish. Iraq fears it
could be the next target in the campaign; Bush has labeled it part of an axis of terror and accused it of supporting terrorists and
stockpiling weapons of mass destruction.

Iraq also repeated calls it made earlier in the week for cutting oil supplies to the United States; shutting down Israeli embassies in
Arab capitals — Egypt, Jordan and Mauritania are the only Arab states with diplomatic relations with Israel; and giving the
Palestinians anti-tank and other weapons, routing the supplies through Israel's neighbors like Jordan and Lebanon.

Libya, meanwhile, suggested Arabs withdraw their recent peace initiative to Israel. At an Arab summit last week in Beirut, leaders
adopted a Saudi formula pledging Israel would be granted normal relations with Arabs if it withdrew from Arab land it seized in the
1967 Mideast war and recognized a Palestinian state and the right of Palestinian refugees to return.

Such hard-line proposals are expected to be turned down by moderates like the Persian Gulf countries, Egypt, Jordan and Morocco,
who fear increasing the confrontation with Israel would only further destabilize the region. Egypt and Jordan, the only two Arab
countries with peace treaties with Israel, have repeatedly rejected calls to freeze the treaties or cut ties. Saudi Arabia and Kuwait
have already rejected Iraq's call to use oil as a weapon in the present conflict.

Arab leaders have struggled over how to respond to the military offensive Israeli launched Friday, taking over several Palestinian
towns, battling Palestinian gunmen and conducting house-to-house sweeps in a bid to uproot militants blamed for a string of terror
attacks. Israeli forces have had Arafat confined in his Ramallah offices for five days.

Tens of thousands of Arabs in countries across the region have held daily street protests since Friday, many denouncing their
governments for not taking action against Israel.

Skirmishes broke out for a second straight day Tuesday at Cairo University. Police fired tear gas and water hoses at stone-throwing
students and arrested 33 demonstrators. Fifteen demonstrators were also arrested in Helwan, near Cairo.

On Wednesday, about 2,000 students again demonstrated peacefully on the Cairo University campus, calling on Egypt to expel the
Israeli ambassador. Police stood by off campus.

In Lebanon Wednesday, several thousand Lebanese and Palestinians from nationalist, Communist and militant Islamic groups
converged on downtown Beirut to stage a noisy protest outside the U.N. office.


hi it oma, wenn du den in den newsticker haben möchtest, jetzt bin ich schlauer gell..**g**, hab dir nämlich sofort den Link dabei gepostet

habt euch gut...

p.m


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