ARAB AND ISRAELI PEACE ACTIVISTS TO MEET IN JORDAN
Over 200 peace activists from Jordan, the Palestinian territories and Israel are expected to gather Wednesday in the southern Jordanian city of Aqaba to discuss the Saudi Arabian sponsored peace plan which offers Israel diplomatic ties with the Arab world in exchange for the Jewish state giving up land it conquered in 1967. One of the meeting's main organisers is former Jordanian prime minister Abd al-Salam al-Majali who is the kingdom's top negotiator with Israel.
A manifesto of intent will be signed at the end of the conference if delegates agree on a common strategy in favour of the Saudi plan, the organisers say.
In a preparatory meeting last Thursday some 50 Israeli and Jordanian academics and politicians met to discuss the peace plan.
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Over 200 peace activists from Jordan, the Palestinian territories and Israel are expected to gather Wednesday in the southern Jordanian city of Aqaba to discuss the Saudi Arabian sponsored peace plan which offers Israel diplomatic ties with the Arab world in exchange for the Jewish state giving up land it conquered in 1967. One of the meeting's main organisers is former Jordanian prime minister Abd al-Salam al-Majali who is the kingdom's top negotiator with Israel.
A manifesto of intent will be signed at the end of the conference if delegates agree on a common strategy in favour of the Saudi plan, the organisers say.
In a preparatory meeting last Thursday some 50 Israeli and Jordanian academics and politicians met to discuss the peace plan.
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'Right of return' urged for Palestinians
by Abir Sarras
More than 2000 Palestinians from all corners of Europe gathered last Saturday in Rotterdam at the 5th conference on the 'right of return' under the motto: "A united nation, with a firm right". The Palestinians chose a tactful date (5 May, Liberation Day in the Netherlands) to remind this country that while it celebrates freedom, the Palestinians are still fighting for theirs.
The conference was held despite much earlier upheaval about the refusal of Dutch authorities to allow the Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh an entry visa to the Netherlands: the EU considers Hamas a terrorist organisation.
Just a day before the conference, another Hamas minister, Basem Naim, was denied entry by Belgium authorities, which withdrew the Dutch visa he was granted, calling it a mistake.
But the refusal of Dutch minister Maxime Verhagen to allow Haniyeh to come to the Netherlands, did not prevent his presence. He spoke to an enthusiastic crowd from Gaza in what later turned to be a taped speech he'd prepared a day earlier.
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2) 'Right of return' urged for Palestinians
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