Draft Summary From Next Week’s Paris Israel Palestine Peace Summit

The following is the draft text summary statement that’s designed to come out of the conference being held next Sunday in Paris (15th January). Ha’aretz shared a scanned PDF of the document. This is the summit that Israel isn’t going to. Defence Minister  Liberman called this the new Dreyfus Affair, likening this to an infamous Jew hating trial held in France in 1894.

A few points:

  • It’s a draft;
  • It’s a firm drive toward creating a Palestinian State as fast as possible;
  • There is no countenance of any other way of living here except the “Two State Solution”;
  • It continues the work of UNSC 2334 in further destroying the sanity of UNSC 242 and forcing Israel to accept the 1949 Auschwitz Borders and hand over most of Jerusalem to the Arabs, presumably for yet more ethnic cleansing;
  • It wants both sides “to disavow official voices on their side that reject this [two state] solution”.

Full Text:

I) Following the Ministerial meeting held in Paris on 3 June 2016, the Participants met in Paris on 15 January 2017 to reaffirm their support for a just, lasting and comprehensive resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They reaffirmed that a negotiated solution with two states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security, is the only way to achieve enduring peace.

They emphasized the importance for the parties to restate their commitment to this solution, to take urgent steps in order to reverse the current negative trends on the ground and to start meaningful direct negotiations.

They reiterated that a negotiated two-state outcome should [meet Israeli security needs and the rights of Palestinians to statehood and sovereignty, end the occupation that began in 1967], and resolve all permanent status issues on the basis of United Nations Security Council resolutions 242 (1967), 338 (1973), 1397 (2002), 1515 (2003), 1850 (2008), the Madrid principles (1991) and the Quartet Roadmap (2003). They also underscored the Arab Peace Initiative as a vision for a comprehensive resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict, thus contributing to regional peace and security. They welcomed the adoption of United Nations Security Council resolution 2334 on 23 December 2016, which clearly condemned settlement activity, incitement and violence, and called both sides to take steps to advance the two-state solution on the ground.

They took note of the report of the Quartet of 1 July 2016 and its recommendations for both sides to take concrete steps to preserve the two-state solution and to create the conditions for final status negotiations.

They noted with particular interest United States Secretary of State’s remarks on 28 December 2016, in which he stressed that no solution could be imposed and outlined his vision of principles for a final status agreement.

They further emphasized the importance for both sides of complying with international humanitarian law and international human rights law, including accountability.

II) The Participants highlighted the potential for security, stability and prosperity for both parties that could result from a peace agreement. They expressed their readiness to exert necessary efforts toward the achievement of the two-state solution and to contribute substantially to arrangements for ensuring the sustainability of a negotiated peace agreement, in particular in the areas of economic incentives, the consolidation of Palestinian state capacities, and civil society dialogue. Those could include, inter alia:

  • a European special privileged partnership; other economic incentives and increased private sector involvement; support to further efforts by the parties to streamline economic cooperation;
  • concrete support to the implementation of the Palestinian Statehood Strategy, including further meetings between international partners and the Palestinian side to that effect;
  • convening Israeli and Palestinian civil society fora, and rekindling the public debate.

They called for these different strands of work to be pursued diligently.

III) Looking ahead, the Participants:

  • expect both sides to restate their commitment to the two-state solution, and to disavow official voices on their side that reject this solution;
  • call on each side to independently demonstrate, through policies and actions, a genuine commitment to the two-state solution and refrain from unilateral steps that prejudge the outcome of final status negotiations, in order to rebuild trust and create a path back to meaningful direct negotiations, in line with the recommendations of the Quartet report of 1 July 2016;
  • restate the validity of the Arab Peace Initiative and highlight its potential for stability in the region;
  • reaffirm that they will not recognize any changes to the 4 June 1967 lines, including with regard to Jerusalem, other than those agreed by the parties through negotiations; also reaffirm that they will distinguish, in their relevant dealings, between the territory of the State of Israel and the territories occupied since 1967;
  • welcome the prospect of closer cooperation between the Quartet and Arab League members to further the objectives of this Declaration and enhance, if necessary, existing mechanisms;
  • welcome the readiness of interested Participants to review progress and further the set of incentives; their findings could be conveyed to the United Nations for the reporting under 0P12 of UNSCR 2334.

France will inform the parties about the international community’s collective support and concrete contribution to the two-State solution contained in this joint declaration.

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23 thoughts on “Draft Summary From Next Week’s Paris Israel Palestine Peace Summit”

  1. Norman_In_New_York

    Let’s get real. Does anybody really believe that Israel will abandon its holy sites in Jerusalem without a fight? Or that Israeli authorities will forcibly remove hundreds of thousands of its citizens from areas that the “international community” declare off limits? Or that President Trump and his Orthodox son-in-law, newly appointed as a senior advisor, will support the pronouncements of this conference? Or that any sanctions imposed on Israel as a result of this conference will not be swiftly violated by countries hungry for the latest Israeli technology? Or that France and the rest of Europe won’t continue to self-destruct by its “humanitarian” kowtowing to the Muslim onslaught on that doomed continent, unless new leaders are elected who have the cojones to stand up and fight for their nationhood? Not only is Israel right to boycott the conference, but I hope it doubles down on construction, asserting sovereignty over the holy places and cracking down on genocide-minded Arabs. Let’s see if these mighty powers resort to force and violence to enforce their pronouncements. I doubt it.

    1. There won’t be any fiat state established–especially given that the two sides are farther apart than ever from reaching a genuine settlement. And nowhere is the proposed Muslim genocide of Jews and refusal to accept Israel ever addressed.

  2. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre is located in the Old City and would therefore be under Palestinian control. I’m betting that someone will claim, even provide ‘evidence’ there is a Muslim cemetery under it so it must be removed because its defiling the corpses. Its totally insane of course but the Pals would do it and there would be people in the west that would believe them.

    Or there would be an ‘accidental’ fire or explosion that would level it and delay after delay about rebuilding.

    Let’s not even guess how long the Hurva Synagogue would last.

  3. The draft text statement published by you – if accepted in its present form – spells the end of UNSCR 2334 for the following reasons:

    1. Resolution 2334 is based on the following words in its preamble:
    “a region where two democratic States, Israel and Palestine, live side by side in peace within secure and recognized borders,”

    2. Note the use of the word “democratic”

    3. The draft text statement mentions the term “two-state solution” eight times without highlighting both be “democratic” once.

    4. John Kerry will be attending the Paris Parley – no doubt glowing in the fawning adulation received to his speech at the State Department on 28 December 2016.

    Kerry’s speech mentioned “two states” 29 times but never included the word “democratic”

    The Security Council members attending in Paris are going to be placed in a difficult position endorsing “the two-state solution” – not the “two democratic states solution” that they voted for on 23 December 2016.

    As they say so politely in French – merde!

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