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Commentary;
This would certainly be a neat trick if Netanyahu, who would not void Oslo when he became Prime Minister in 1996 and who in fact handed 80% of Hevron to the PA, not to mention his vote in favor of expulsion of his Jewish brethren, finally has the moral courage and backbone to void and totally expunge all record of any Abbas-Olmert agreement. MB
Netanyahu Says Any Abbas-Olmert Agreement Will be Voided, by Ezra HaLevi (Israel National News)
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Likud Chairman and former Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu says any agreement reached between PM Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas is null and void.
Widely expected to be the next prime minister, Netanyahu said he would not honor an agreement reached between Fatah chief Abbas and Olmert – who are currently engaged in frantic negotiations on final status issues. The nature of the hurried negotiations with the questionably-sovereign head of a fractured PA is to reach a US-imposed deadline of at least a theoretical deal for a Palestinian state by the end of 2008.
“The agreement that Olmert will or will not achieve is no more than a cynical invalid deal – not in legal terms, but in terms of reality,” Netanyahu is quoted saying in Friday’s Makor Rishon newspaper.
Israel’s main papers are carrying special holiday interviews with Prime Minister Olmert; Makor Rishon opted to interview Netanyahu instead.
Netanyahu acknowledged that Olmert would seek to present a US-backed deal as his election platform. “Then the public will be the judge,” Netanyahu said. “If [Kadima] wins the election – fine. But if they don’t, they can’t force upon the public, in a cynical and manipulative manner, something the public is not interested in.”