Qurei, at a meeting held in Al-Quds University in the Jerusalem Arab neighborhood of Abu Dis Sunday, said that the PA would now focus its attention on Jerusalem. "The fight has begun for Jerusalem," Qurei said, "and it is a dangerous war. No Arab, Palestinian - Christian or Muslim - will accept Israel's racist plans." Abu Dis is under PA administrative control, but the IDF controls security around the neighborhood.
The senior PLO figure attacked the separation fence, insisting that it was to be the future border, something many Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria fear as well. "This wall is not a security wall. It is a wall meant to set borders. How else would you explain the fact that the fence runs through Palestinian communities? If they want a security fence, let them build it on the Green Line," he said.
Qurei demanded that US President George W. Bush pressure Israel to live up to the Bush's declared vision of a "viable" Palestinian state. "The only viable country would be with the 1967 borders," he said, "the Palestinians will not accept less than a state on the lands occupied in 1967 with Jerusalem as its capital."
Qurei also said that that the recent agreement between Egypt and Israel to allow the deployment of 750 armed Egyptian security officers along the southern borders of Gaza was a "positive step."
The senior PLO figure attacked the separation fence, insisting that it was to be the future border, something many Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria fear as well. "This wall is not a security wall. It is a wall meant to set borders. How else would you explain the fact that the fence runs through Palestinian communities? If they want a security fence, let them build it on the Green Line," he said.
Qurei demanded that US President George W. Bush pressure Israel to live up to the Bush's declared vision of a "viable" Palestinian state. "The only viable country would be with the 1967 borders," he said, "the Palestinians will not accept less than a state on the lands occupied in 1967 with Jerusalem as its capital."
Qurei also said that that the recent agreement between Egypt and Israel to allow the deployment of 750 armed Egyptian security officers along the southern borders of Gaza was a "positive step."