Israel mulls gestures to Palestinians

Senior members of Israel's defense establishment recommend Israel initiate a series of goodwill gestures to the Palestinian Authority before September.


Defense Minister Ehud Barak proposed the plan in a move designed to convince Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to back down from unilateral statehood recognition at the United Nations next month.


"This would be a way to get the Palestinians to understand that they have a lot to gain by working together with us, as opposed to making unilateral moves," a defense official said.


Among the issues up for discussion - the removal of West Bank roadblocks, increasing the number of Palestinian workers permitted to enter Israel, issuing special permits to Israelis that would permit them to enter Palestinian areas and the possible release of Palestinian prisoners incarcerated in Israel.

Another idea under consideration is to increase the number of weapons to Palestinian security forces in the West Bank.

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[UnbeltedSundew]

@BasilMcHerb1 You should be ashamed for writing such ridiculous tripe. Or is that just the LSD talking?

[BasilMcHerb1]

@UnbeltedSundew The 'protection of Israeli citizens' means killing everyone else. The Israeli state is dysfunctional and controlled by Zionists. Ordinary Jewish and Palestinian people are crushed by this evil regime. Israel should wake up and realise it is acting like the nazis and is a state based on apartheid. Israel should be ashamed.

[00966563643435]

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[Skypilotbaby]

I LOVE IT WHEN THE ARABS ARE KILLING EACH OTHER.

Nessus

[UnbeltedSundew]

How 'bout instead of continuing with flawed ideas that obviously don't work, Israel considers actually clamping down and actually try protecting its own citizens for once.