RAMALLAH, October 11, 2009 (WAFA)- President Mahmoud Abbas said Sunday Jerusalem is the key and entrance  of peace in the Middle East, stressing  that Israeli Occupation absurdity in the holy city would agitate tensions and wars in the region and the world.

In a televised speech to the Palestinian people, President Abbas said 'there will be no peace agreement  until the occupation of Jerusalem ends. We are determined to safeguard the Aqsa Mosque, the Sepulcher Church and Jerusalem, the capital of Palestine.'

“While we are adhering to peace option,” the President said, “we do believe that the resumption pf peace process and negotiations should meet the conditions of such resumption, mainly, the halt of all settlement activities, as well the definition of the references of the peace process, which must put an end the occupation and should lead to the establishment of the Palestinian state in the 1967 borders.”

The President said he instructed the Palestinian Permanent Observer  in Geneva to request an urgent meeting UN Human Rights Council in order to discuss the Goldstone report, 'so that those responsible for crimes against the Palestinian people during the barbaric Israeli operation in the Gaza Strip, when Israel destroyed Gaza, its mosques, its hospitals and its homes, can be brought to justice.'

'We are working to bring to an end the intra-Palestinian rift and to sign a reconciliation agreement,' he said, 'but we believe this crisis can be solved by going to the ballots.'

He rejected Hamas accusations, saying that the suggestion to defer discussion of the Goldstone report was not an initiative of the Palestinians but only happened due to the 'pressure of several powerful countries.'

Abbas said the PNA was willing to do everything necessary in order to have the recommendations of the Goldstone Committee adopted. He denied any allegations that the PNA succumbed to external pressures regarding deferral of discussion over the report. He accused Hamas of 'exposing its true intentions - to hurt the efforts for national Palestinian reconciliation.'

The President said the authority will fulfill all recommendations of an investigative committee established to figure out the circumstances leading to the deferral of the discussion. 'We will follow the committee's recommendations. We have the courage to take responsibility if [the committee] finds us in the wrong.”