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[Announcer] In a joint statement the Arabic political parties have asked the leaders of Arab nations not to participate in the American compromise conference. These political parties said America's objectives holding this conference are to eliminate the Palestinian regime and secure the interests of the Zionists.
In this statement the Arab political parties announced Bush wants to improve his own shaky position and that of Olmert's by holding this conference. The prime minister elected by the people of Palestine said no person has the right to discount the rights of the Palestinian nation, especially concerning the right of refugees to return to their homeland. The Annapolis meeting will be held Tuesday this week in America. Our analysis of this report will be with Mr. Safataj. Hello! Welcome!
[Safataj] Greetings and best wishes to you and your viewers!
[Announcer] Thank you very much! Mr. Safataj, the Americans are making a lot of effort to hold this conference and also to get the Arab nations to attend. What are their aims?
[Safataj] America's objective, as the Arab political parties said in their statment, can be viewed and analyzed on three levels, inside Palestine, regionally and internationally. Inside Palestine, in view of the situation prevailing right now in the Gaza Strip, especially since the victory by the HAMAS movement in the elections, the formation of the government and settling matters in the Gaza Strip in the clashes HAMAS had with the Fatah Movement, as Mahmoud Abbas himself said, he no longer has full authority and can only function in some limited capacity, such as mayor of Ramallah. This conference is being held to reinforce Mr. Mahmoud Abbas and to create limitations for the legal and popular HAMAS government.
In the regional dimension, in view of the fact that incidents and events in the region are connected and affect each other, especially the relationships between Palestine, Lebanon or Iraq, the American government is trying to gather the Arab leaders together so that after solving the Palestine problem it will effectively be able to implement again its New Middle East Project.
In the international dimension however, which the the American dimension, in view of the poll prediction of almost certain defeat for the Republican Party, they are trying by holding this conference to get a concession, and if they can solve the Palestine problem by bringing together the problems in Palestine and Iraq, they may be able to win the next election.
{Announcer] Mr Safataj, will America be able to get itself out of the dead end it has created in the Middle East?
[Safataj] The Americans are pursuing such objectives, just as they did in Madrid Spain in 1991, but most of this conference depends on the commitments the Zionist regime has made that it must fulfill. The Arab nations want the Zionist regime to withdraw behind its 1967 borders. The Palestinians want an end to the excavations that are being done under the Dome of the Rock Mosque, and they want the removal of the fringe settlements. Most important of all, they want implementation UN Resolution 194 concerning the return of Palestinian refugees. This would have the meaning of a blood transfusion for the Palestinian movement.
The Zionist regime is opposing all of these things. It is not even willing to withdraw an inch from the occupied Arab lands on the pretext that they have strategic value. It has not taken any steps towards fulfilling its previous agreements to release Palestinian prisoners. There are now about 11,000 Palestinians in the Zionist regime's prisons. Settlement construction still continues. The excavations continue, and the Palestinians continue to be suppressed in the same way. Therefore in view of the fact that the Zionist regime does not want to fulfill its commitments, naturally this regime will be a factor in the failure of the Annapolis Conference. It will not take the hands of any Arabs other than their leaders and consequently this conference is already facing failure. Some Arab and even Zionist political circles have already admitted that this conference is a failure, and America has failed in its objective for holding this conference.
[Announcer] Thank you very much Mr. Safataj! We will see whether or not the Annapolis Conference produces any results!
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[on-screen announcer] In a racist measure, the Zionist regime has implemented the first phase of the project to divide the streets of Jerusalem between Israelis and Palestinians. This measure has cut geographical connections between the north and south of the Gaza Strip and facilitates the Israeli plan to build settlements.
[off-screen announcer] Based on this racist project, the streets of Jerusalem have been divided between the Israelis and the Palestinians and two separate roads are to be allocated, one for the Israelis and one for the Palestinians. These roads are to be separated by a 5-meter wall.
Donnie Zeigman, expert on the Zionist regime's mapping affairs, said this road has been named the Jerusalem Beltway; he said it creates conditions for the creation of a new region in Ma'ali and will cut the geographical connections between the north and south of the Gaza Strip.
According to this mapping expert this project will facilitate connections between existing Israeli settlements in Jerusalem; it will separate Palestinian families from one another and will lead to their transfer to Ramallah and Bethlehem, in such a way that the Palestinians will no longer have a way to go to Jerusalem.
Likewise the Zionist regime's deputy defense minister said concerning this project that the government will complete this road before it connects to the high wall surrounding Jerusalem, and this route will separate the Palestinians and the Israelis by means of a wall.
HAMAS Spokesman Fawzi Barhoum condemned this measure by the Zionist regime. He said: [voice of interpreter] This project is the continuation of the Isreali regime's racist policies to surround Jerusalem and to facilitate continuation of the projects to build settlements, especially in the Israeli settlement of Ma'ali Adomim.
[announcer] These measures are being taken at a time when not much time remains before the Annapolis Conference and the Zionist regime has claimed that it is willing to recognize officially the rights of the Palestinians and concede to their demands that the construction of settlements be stopped, the Palestinians be granted the right of free return and that Israel stop building walls.
On the other hand the last meeting before the Annapolis Conference between Abu Mazen, the President of the Palestinian Authority and Ehud Olmert, the Zionist prime minister, failed and ended without the issuance of a joint statment. In this context America is trying in the framework of this meeting to persuade the Arab nations, and especially the president of the Palestinian Authority, to grant more concessions to the Zionist regime. Yet the existing indications show the emergence of new disagreements among the Arab and Israeli groups invited to this conference.
Saudi Arabia has set as a condition of its attendance an Israeli withdrawal behind its 1967 borders, and the Egyptians have also said that the Annapolis meeting will not get anywhere under current Israeli policies.
[on-screen announcer] In view of the current situation in the Palestinian areas it is clear that the Annapolis Conference will not accomplish anything to solve the Palestine Crisis, because the disagreements over this meeting are quite sharp, and America knows this.
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