Israel to speed up finalization of borders

Reuters/MSNBC:

Israel’s Interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert plans to draw the country’s border with the Palestinians by November 2008, ahead of a previous target, an Israeli newspaper reported on Monday.

Olmert, who previously gave a deadline of 2010, now wants to make sure his border plan is completed before President Bush leaves office in early 2009, the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth said.

Olmert won a parliamentary election on March 28 on a campaign pledge to withdraw from swathes of the occupied West Bank while expanding several large Jewish settlement blocs in a unilateral move to set a frontier unilaterally, in the absence of peace talks.

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Israel's BATNA (Best Alternative To Negotiated Agreement) is far superior to dealing with a Palestinian entity that has nothing to offer.

Update: The cutting off of contact with Hams's goverment by Israel has received a laughable response. Keep in mind that this is the group that wants to wipe Israel off the map.

Hamas said it considered Israel's severing of contacts with the new Palestinian government "a declaration of war" and President Mahmoud Abbas accused the Jewish state of breaking international law.

In statements issued in quick succession on Monday, election rivals Hamas and Abbas denounced Israel for branding the Palestinian Authority a "hostile entity" and suspending security coordination.

Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said in a statement in Gaza that Israel's decision to sever contacts with the Palestinian Authority amounted to "a declaration of war and a failed attempt to cause internal divisions among Palestinians".

In the West Bank city of Ramallah, Abbas said Israel's position "completely violates the agreements we have signed with them and violates international law".

"We demand from this Israeli government to stop such measures", Abbas said.

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Of course one of those agreements require that the Palestinians recognize Israel and not attack it. Hamas has said that it was not bound by that agreement. If a party defaults under an agreement it cannot require the other party to continue to perform under that agreement. This is basic contract law and also common sense.

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