RAMALLAH, November 8, 2009 (WAFA)- Presidency Spokesperson Nabil Abu Rdeina stressed that Israeli MK Shaul Mofaz plan to establish a temporary borders Palestinian state on part of the West Bank, will not see light.
He said that Mofaz plan is completely unacceptable, adding that any partial solutions that excludes East Jerusalem will not see light since Jerusalem is a red line.
Commenting on Mofaz statements to negotiate with Hamas, Abu Rdeina said any party that would negotiate in accordance to Mofaz plan is to be responsible of abandoning Jerusalem as well the Holy places.
Shaul Mofaz presented a plan to negotiate with Hamas and establish a Palestinian state on 60 percent of the West Bank within one year, Haaretz said.
'Assuming that Hamas is elected and will want to sit down at the negotiating table, at that moment it accepts the Quartet's conditions and is no longer a terrorist organization,' Mofaz said. 'The state of Israel must sit down with any element that changes its priorities.'
Mofaz developed his proposal following consultations with figures in the army establishment, the heads of think tanks and politicians. He contends that the stalemate in the negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians is dangerous from a demographic standpoint and with respect to Israel's legitimacy in the world.
According to the Mofaz plan, in the initial stage of the establishment of a Palestinian state with provisional borders there would be no need to uproot Jewish settlers in the West Bank, but legislation would be enacted to show Israel's serious intent, providing for the subsequent relocation in the Galilee and in West Bank settlement blocs of about 70,000 residents of isolated settlements.