By Stan Goodenough
Jun 06, 2006
The European Union appears to be grabbing at what?s been labeled a ?Prisoners? Peace Plan? (PPP) as a way to continue funding and promoting the cause of the Palestinian Arabs in spite of the latter?s sold-out support for Hamas.
The ?national conciliation plan,? as the PPP is known, was published by terrorist leaders incarcerated in Israeli prisons, and calls for all Palestinian Arabs to accept a two state ?solution? for Israel and ?Palestine.?
It purportedly aims at fostering unity between the various ?Palestinian? terror factions, including the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
Much of the world media and some world leaders have seized upon the PPP as ?a vote for accepting Israel? (New York Times)
Israel has refused to discuss the plan, however, insisting it is an internal ?Palestinian? matter that will in no way pressure Jerusalem to end its insistence that the PA fulfills its road map obligations before final status talks can begin.
In fact the prisoners' plan makes no mention of Israel. It supports ongoing terrorism against Jews and regurgitates tired but time-proven ?Palestinian? propaganda about Arab land being under occupation while its rightful owners languish in the ?Diaspora.?
An increasingly beleaguered Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas wants Hamas to accept the plan. Abbas has extended an original deadline and given the Islamist group three more days to decide or face new ?national? elections.
Meanwhile EU foreign policy czar Javier Solana jetted into the region Monday for talks with Abbas in Europe?s ongoing quest to circumvent the Israeli and US boycott of funding to the PA.
On leaving he told the press: ?We will not let the Palestinians down.?
According to the leftist British newspaper the Independent, Abbas is ?hoping that Palestinian endorsement will lead to European and even US pressure on Israel to treat him as a plausible ?partner.??
The PA chairman also hoped that the plan may ?lead to an easing of the international and Israeli economic blockade on the Hamas-led authority, which has left 165,000 Palestinian Authority employees in their third month without pay.?