Pemandangan umum menunjukkan mesyuarat Liga Arab menteri asing dalam ibu kota Mesir Kaherah pada 21 Disember, 2013. (AFP Photo/Hassan Mohamed – think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)
SitiWanMahani - Liga Arab telah menolak pelan keselamatan Amerika Syarikat yang akan melibatkan kehadiran tentera Israel di sempadan antara Tebing Barat dan Jordan selama 10 tahun. Rancangan itu yang dicadangkan oleh Setiausaha Negara Amerika Syarikat sebagai sebahagian daripada rundingan Israel-Palestin.
Liga Setiausaha Agung Nabil Elaraby telah berkata mungkin terdapat “bukannya satu” askar Israel di wilayah satu Palestin masa depan, ketika berucap di mesyuarat tergempar di Kaherah, yang dipanggil atas permintaan Presiden Palestin Mahmoud Abbas.
Amerika Syarikat baru-baru ini telah dibentangkan “beberapa pemikiran” mengenai pengaturan keselamatan, menurut Setiausaha Negara John Kerry, salah satu daripada yang dilaporkan adalah satu cadangan bahawa Tentera Pertahanan Israel kekal di Lem-bah Jordan selama 10 tahun selepas penubuhan sebuah masa depan negara Palestin.
Pegawai Palestin telah mengkritik rancangan itu mengatakan bahawa Amerika Syarikat adalah untuk menangani kebimbangan Israel mengenai kemasukan potensi militan dan senjata. Abbas berkata beliau dapat menerima penempatan tentera Amerika Syarikat di sana.
Elaraby juga ditekankan semasa mesyuarat Liga Arab bahawa tiada perjanjian damai akan bekerja di antara Pihak Berkuasa Palestin dan Israel di bawah apa-apa syarat. Walau bagaimanapun, keputusan yang beliau baca di akhir persidangan itu, tidak mempunyai kutukan keras rancangan Amerika, seperti dilihat dalam satu laporan yang telah diedar-kan sebelum mesyuarat.
Laporan itu, yang dilihat oleh Reuters, berkata cadangan keselamatan Amerika Syarikat “mencapai Israel permintaan peluasan keselamatan, dan dijamin kawalan [Israel] berte-rusan [Jordan Valley] atas alasan keselamatan.”
Ia juga menggambarkan mereka sebagai “tempat percutian Amerika,” mengatakan bahawa Washington dan Tel Aviv menghubungkan rundingan mengenai isu-isu politik kepada kelulusan Palestin kepada “penyelesaian keselamatan Amerika.” “Inilah yang pihak Palestin menolak,” laporan itu dibaca.
Ia juga ditawarkan negara-negara Liga Arab untuk menyokong Palestin dengan mem-bantah “semua rancangan dan dasar yang bertujuan untuk mengubah keadaan demografi dan geografi dalam wilayah Palestin yang dijajah, termasuk di Jerusalem, Israel” seperti yang dipetik oleh Haaretz.
Arab League Slams US proposal to let
IDF guard West Bank . . .
The Arab League has rejected a US security plan that would involve Israel’s military presence on the border between the West Bank and Jordan for 10 years. The plan was proposed by the US Secretary of State as a part of Israeli-Palestinian talks.
The League’s Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby has said there could be “not one” Israeli soldier in the territory of a future Palestine, speaking at an emergency meeting in Cairo, called at the request of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
The United States has recently presented "some thoughts" on security arrangements, according to Secretary of State John Kerry, one of which reportedly was a proposal that the Israeli Defense Force remains in the Jordan Valley for 10 years after the establishment of a future Palestinian state.
Palestinian officials have criticized the plan saying that the US was to address Israeli concerns about a potential influx of militants and weapons. Abbas said he could accept the deployment of US troops there.
Elaraby also stressed during the Arab League meeting that no peace deal would work between Palestinian Authority and Israel under such conditions. However, the resolution he read at the end of the assembly, did not have harsh condemnation of the US plan, such as seen in a report that was circulated before the meeting.
The report, seen by Reuters, said the US security proposals “achieved Israeli security expansionist demands, and guaranteed [Israel's] continued control of [the Jordan Valley] on the security pretext.”
It also described them as “an American retreat,” saying that Washington and Tel Aviv are linking negotiations on political issues to the Palestinians' approval to “the American security solution.” “This is what the Palestinian side rejects,” the report read.
It also offered the Arab League nations to support Palestinians by objecting to “all the Israeli plans and policies aimed at changing the demographic and geographic situation in the occupied Palestinian territories, including in Jerusalem,” as quoted by Haaretz.
Seorang askar Israel panduan tangki di sebuah Angkatan Defnce Israel (IDF) kawasan pementasan oleh Gaza sempadan pusat November 22, 2012. (Reuters/Yannis Behrakis – think IN pictures @1WORLD Community)
Walaupun John Kerry tidak memberikan sebarang maklumat ke dalam cadangan kese-lamatan Amerika Syarikat, Presiden Abbas telah mendakwa pelan keselamatan yang dica-dangkan menyokong kedudukan Israel di rantau ini dengan mendapatkan kehadiran IDF di Jordan River Valley, pada masa yang sama melambatkan permintaan Palestin.
Pemimpin Palestin diarahkan delegasinya untuk membantah sebarang cadangan separa atau perjanjian interim, ketua perunding Palestin Saeb Erekat memberitahu agensi berita Palestin pada hari Sabtu. Diplomat itu berkata apa-apa perkiraan mencapai dalam tem-poh masa yang dipersetujui, sebelum 29 April, harus yang akhir.
“Kami tidak bercakap mengenai perjanjian damai akhir tetapi hanya perjanjian rangka kerja, yang merupakan separuh jalan untuk perjanjian muktamad,” kata Erekat awal pada hari Jumaat.
Menurut cadangan awal Kerry, yang dibentangkan pada awal Disember, lintasan sempa-dan ke Jordan akan berada di bawah kawalan bersama Israel-Palestin, mungkin dengan kehadiran tentera Amerika Syarikat.
Ia juga akan memerlukan kontinjen tentera Israel untuk meninggalkan kebanyakan Tebing Barat, kecuali di Lembah Jordan, melarang IDF daripada beroperasi di tanah Palestin untuk memerangi ancaman pelampau. Washington juga ditawarkan pelaburan ke dalam keupayaan perisikan Israel untuk membantu menangani sebarang ancaman.
Apabila Kerry membentangkan cadangan awal bulan ini beliau berkata , bahawa “jika keselamatan Israel tidak boleh meningkatkan hasil daripada perjanjian, ia sangat sukar untuk membuat perjanjian. Jelas sekali, keselamatan adalah paling utama dalam fikiran Perdana Menteri [Benjamin Netanyahu] dan pasukannya berkenaan dengan keupayaan mereka untuk bergerak ke hadapan dalam isu-isu yang lain.”
Israel dan Palestin memulakan semula rundingan damai secara langsung pada bulan Julai selepas berehat 3 tahun. Sejak pasukan Israel dan Palestin melawat Washington, John Kerry berulang-alik antara dua pihak orang tengah bagi perjanjian, tetapi setakat ini tiada kemajuan pesat telah dibuat.
While John Kerry offered no details into the US security proposals, President Abbas has claimed the proposed security plan supports Israel’s position in the region by securing IDF presence in the Jordan River Valley, at the same time delaying Palestinian demands.
The Palestinian leader instructed his delegation to object to any partial proposal or interim deal, Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat told the Palestinian news agency on Saturday. The diplomat added that any arrangement reached within the agreed timeframe, before April 29, must be a final one.
“We are not talking about a final peace treaty but only a framework agreement, which is halfway to a final treaty,” Erekat said earlier on Friday.
According to Kerry’s initial proposal, presented earlier in December, border crossings into Jordan would be under joint Israeli-Palestinian control, possibly with US troop presence.
It would also require the Israeli military contingent to leave most of West Bank, except for the Jordan Valley, prohibit the IDF from operating in Palestinian lands to combat the extremist threat. Washington also offered investments into Israel’s intelligence capabilities to help counter any threats.
When Kerry presented the proposal earlier this month he said, that “if Israel's security can't increase as a result of an agreement, it's very difficult to make an agreement. Obviously, security is paramount in the minds of the Prime Minister [Benjamin Netanyahu] and his team with respect to their ability to move forward on other issues."
Israel and the Palestinians resumed direct peace negotiations in July after a three-year break. Since Israeli and Palestinian teams visited Washington, John Kerry has been shuttling between the sides brokering a deal, but so far no concrete progress has been made.
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