PLO May Pull About Face on Oslo - No Longer Recognizing Israel

Mohammed Shtayyeh, member of the Fatah Central Committee and one of the Palestinian Authority negotiators with Israel, was quoted Sunday
as saying that the Palestinians may cancel the agreements signed between the PLO and Israel.

Meanwhile, some PLO and Fatah leaders have privately criticized Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for agreeing to
incorporate Hamas into the PLO.

At least three senior officials in Ramallah have voiced strong reservations over the decision, a Fatah official told The Jerusalem
Post. He said that those who were opposed to the move were worried that Hamas would replace Fatah as the dominant party in the PLO.

One official was quoted as saying that Abbas was paving the way for Hamas and Islamic Jihad to take control not only over the PLO, but the
entire West Bank as well.

Shtayyeh's comments were published by the London-based Asharq Al Awsat newspaper.

This was not the first time that a senior PA official had talked about
the possibility of abrogating the Oslo Accords.

The comments came less than 48 hours after Hamas and Islamic Jihad
agreed to join a temporary leadership of the PLO that would prepare
for new elections for the organization's two key bodies - the
Palestine National Council and Executive Committee.

In response to a question about Israeli settlements, Shtayyeh said:
"If Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu insists that there is no
difference between the settlement of Abu Ghneim [Har Homa] and Tel
Aviv, we won't distinguish between Ramallah and Jaffa."

With regards to the PLO's decision to recognize Israel in 1993,
Shtayyeh explained: "The recognition of Israel was not a balanced
recognition. The PLO recognized Israel in the geographic sense, but
Israel did not recognize Palestine geographically, but as an
institution. Israel only recognized the PLO. Now we are demanding a
mutual recognition. We want Israel to recognize the Palestinian
territories of 1967."

Shtayyeh said the Palestinians' efforts would from now on focus on
internal affairs. "President [Mahmoud] Abbas is now interested in
reuniting the Palestinians," he said. "In the year 2012, their will be
a political vacuum because the US will be preoccupied with
presidential elections, the Europeans with the Euro crisis and the
Arabs with their "Spring."

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