RAMALLAH, June 25, 2011 (WAFA) – The three Arabic dailies Saturday highlighted three prime issues: President Mahmoud Abbas’ meeting withTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, European Union statement to support conference in Paris, and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s participation in celebrations of the retreat of a section of the Apartheid Wall in Bil’in, a village west of Ramallah.
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida main front page headline quoted Abbas, saying “no going back in reconciliation.” The news story reported on Erdogan’s announcement of Turkey’s full support of the Palestinian plan to seek United Nations recognition of a Palestinian state within 1967 borders and Jerusalem as its capital.
The paper also featured a Palestinian official saying that Turkey informed Abbas of Hamas absolute refusal of Fayyad as prime minister of the national unity government.
Al-Quds prime story featured EU leaders’ support of holding Paris Conference before September to provide financial and economical aid in order to build a Palestinian state to revive the peace process.
The story also said that Lynn Pascoe, the under secretary-general of the United Nations for political affairs, called to resume talks between the Palestinians and Israelis.
Al-Ayyam front page story reported on Palestinian celebrations of the retreat of a part of the Separation Wall in Bi’lin, quoting Fayyad saying “wall retreat is beginning of fall of occupation, triumph of resistance.”
The paper published a picture of an Israeli soldier threatening a Palestinian participant with a teargas bomb during a protest against the Wall in Nabi Saleh, a village north of Ramallah.
The three dailies reported on Secretary General of the Lebanese
political and paramilitary organization Hezbollah, Hasan Nasrallah’s announcement of uncovering two members recruited by the CIA. An official of US embassy in Beirut denied the allegations.
News from Syria and Egypt also made it to the front pages of the three papers.
Al-Quds editorial celebrated “an achievement of the non-violence public resistance,” referring to the Apartheid Wall retreat from parts of Bi’lin lands as the Israeli authorities change the wall course.
The editorial also attacked Israeli prime minister Netanyahu’s statements of his plan to tighten the Palestinian prisoners’ conditions in Israeli jails.
Another op-ed in the paper called on to put Fatah’s candidate for prime minister, Salam Fayyad, and a candidate chosen by Hamas to national referendum.
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