Palestinian Authority negotiator Nabil Shaath said last night that the Palestinians would deal with Sharon, \"since the Israeli people - our partner in the peace negotiations - have chosen him. But what kind of peace can he make, if he is not even willing to go as far as Barak did?\" He said that he would not agree to an interim agreement, and that the Palestinians would continue to struggle for what they deserve.
PA negotiator Saeb Erekat said that the election results prove that the Israeli public is not ready for peace. “There is no chance for peace while Sharon adheres to his positions regarding Jerusalem, the Jordan Valley, and the Judea and Samaria settlements,” he said, adding that negotiations will only resume from where they left off under Ehud Barak. \"The only way to work with Sharon,\" Fatah Secretary Marwan Barghouti said, \"is to continue and escalate the Intifada.\" Yasser Abed-Rabbo said that the Sharon victory represents a victory for the Fascist and extremist Right in Israel.
Arab MK Ahmed Tibi said tonight that the Arabs are no longer in the pocket of the Labor party. MK Rechavam Z\'eevi (National Union Party) said in response: \"What Tibi is saying is that the converse is true - the Labor party will now be in the pocket of the Arabs. They will always have the final OK on its candidate, etc.\"
The official Egyptian daily Al Ahbar writes that the victory of “the butcher from Sabra and Shatila” is testimony that the Israeli nation does not want peace. The paper writes that the political platform of Sharon - who has been hated by Egypt ever since he commanded critical victories against Egypt in the Yom Kippur War - is a “declaration of war… The only hope for the Palestinian hope now is the strengthening of Arab solidarity in support of the intifada.” On the other hand, Jordanian Foreign Minister Abdel Ala el-Hatib says that his country will judge Sharon according to his actions and not by his past.
Yasser Arafat\'s official reaction: “We respect the will of the Israeli nation, but we hope that the peace process will continue.\"
PA negotiator Saeb Erekat said that the election results prove that the Israeli public is not ready for peace. “There is no chance for peace while Sharon adheres to his positions regarding Jerusalem, the Jordan Valley, and the Judea and Samaria settlements,” he said, adding that negotiations will only resume from where they left off under Ehud Barak. \"The only way to work with Sharon,\" Fatah Secretary Marwan Barghouti said, \"is to continue and escalate the Intifada.\" Yasser Abed-Rabbo said that the Sharon victory represents a victory for the Fascist and extremist Right in Israel.
Arab MK Ahmed Tibi said tonight that the Arabs are no longer in the pocket of the Labor party. MK Rechavam Z\'eevi (National Union Party) said in response: \"What Tibi is saying is that the converse is true - the Labor party will now be in the pocket of the Arabs. They will always have the final OK on its candidate, etc.\"
The official Egyptian daily Al Ahbar writes that the victory of “the butcher from Sabra and Shatila” is testimony that the Israeli nation does not want peace. The paper writes that the political platform of Sharon - who has been hated by Egypt ever since he commanded critical victories against Egypt in the Yom Kippur War - is a “declaration of war… The only hope for the Palestinian hope now is the strengthening of Arab solidarity in support of the intifada.” On the other hand, Jordanian Foreign Minister Abdel Ala el-Hatib says that his country will judge Sharon according to his actions and not by his past.
Yasser Arafat\'s official reaction: “We respect the will of the Israeli nation, but we hope that the peace process will continue.\"