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Livni: A significant gap separates moderate PA leaders will, ability
By Barak Ravid and Shahar Ilan, Haaretz Correspondents and News Agencies

Foreign Minister Tzipi Linvi said Monday that there is a significant gap between the will of moderate Palestinian leaders and their ability to implement policy.

Speaking at the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center's NATO-Israel conference, Livni said that even should an agreement be reached on core final status issues, Israel cannot simply "say goodbye, throw the key to the other side and hope for the best."

"We must ensure that there will be a government on the Palestinian side that can control the situation on the ground and prevent attacks on Israel," she said, adding that any agreement will be implemented on the basis of the U.S.-backed road map for Middle East peace.
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"Israel's security must be a Palestinian interest," she said.

Livni added that terror organizations must be prevented from taking power through democratic means. "We have seen how this happens in the [Palestinian] Authority and Lebanon, as terror organizations gained legitimacy through the back door," she said.

Livni is pushing for the creation of a negotiations administration to handle ongoing work on the core issues with Palestinian counterparts after the summit.

Olmert: Knesset must okay joint declaration before peace meet
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has informed Attorney General Menachem Mazuz that he intends to present any joint declaration formulated with the Palestinians to the Knesset for approval, Haaretz learned on Monday.

The prime minister told the attorney general in a letter that "Every document which expresses Israeli commitment to a significant political-military matter... will be brought before the Knesset... in accordance with the accepted practice of the State of Israel and as the government of Israel has been doing for generations with regard to significant political documents."

Olmert said it was too early to predict the results of negotiations with the Palestinians or even what such a joint document would look like. The sides are expected to draw up the joint document before the Mideast peace conference scheduled for November in Maryland.

Israel has been pushing for pre-summit talks with the Palestinians to yield a broad agreement of principles, which does not tackle the core issues at the heart of the Israeli-Paletinian conflict. The Palestinians, however, have insisted that the document address those issues - Jerusalem, refugees and permanent borders.

Reflecting this fundamental disparity in the sides' intentions, Olmert wrote that it was not clear the joint declaration would go far enough to require a vote in parliament.

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      1.   Now that I have you all here ... 08:47  |  Natallie Durson 22/10/07
      2.   Core issues: 09:13  |  Ruti 22/10/07
      3.   Core issues? Fiddle-di-dee! I`ll think about that tomorrow. 09:35  |  Clickfool 22/10/07
      4.   So why have a summit? 09:54  |  Johnboy 22/10/07
      5.   Livni caught by own stupidity 10:16  |  Absolute Sweden 22/10/07
      6.   Is this Dalia`s dream?! 10:51  |  Esther 22/10/07
      7.   #5 Perhaps now is the time, Absolute Sweden... 11:15  |  Johnboy 22/10/07
      8.   core issues 11:41  |  jamie 22/10/07
      9.   Already a bland admission that nothing is going to happen at the 11:42  |  lakshmi 22/10/07
      10.   The Gang`s all here 12:25  |  ATLAS 22/10/07
      11.   Another conference..yawn yawn 12:36  |  The Arab Hammer 22/10/07
      12.   Israel not serious 12:36  |  Jan Elshout 22/10/07
      13.   To Esther # 6 - Being Cynical does not pay..... 12:38  |  Dolly 22/10/07
      14.   There is only one core issue 12:44  |  Jonathan S 22/10/07
      15.   Esther vs. Ruti about core issues 12:49  |  Rafi Regev 22/10/07
      16.   Core issues 13:11  |  Adolph Mohammed Dib 22/10/07
      17.   Cynical Dolly #13 13:23  |  Esther 22/10/07
      18.   Johnboy No. 7 13:37  |  Jackie 22/10/07
      19.   To Jan Elshout # 12 - What does Israel owe 13:57  |  Dagma 22/10/07
      20.   It is not rocket science, Mrs Livni 14:19  |  Don Camillo 22/10/07
      21.   #18 Jackie shares her point of view 14:19  |  Johnboy 22/10/07
      22.   #5 -she is light years behind Olmert 14:40  |  redmike 22/10/07
      23.   If you want no results.... 14:48  |  Anton 22/10/07
      24.   #7 - Should the americans withdraw from the US ? 14:50  |  redmike 22/10/07
      25.   Thank you Adolph Mohammed Dib... 14:52  |  Avi 22/10/07
      26.   Esther, do note in response to your discussion with Dolly, the 14:56  |  Rafi 22/10/07
      27.   I fear Livini`s statements are more about.. 15:06  |  Avi 22/10/07
      28.   the guidelines 15:17  |  izaak 22/10/07
      29.   I agree with Clickfool? 15:34  |  Lee 22/10/07
      30.   Dagma 16:00  |  Said 22/10/07
      31.   Livni preparing for negotiations that will not happen underOlmert 16:02  |  Tosefta 22/10/07
      32.   The WICKED LIE of Peace. PA Call for MURDER of All Jews 16:22  |  Linda Rivera 22/10/07
      33.   US/EU Wickedly Ignores JUSTICE for One Million JEWISH REFUGEES 16:27  |  Linda Rivera 22/10/07
      34.   No problem,Rabin bought Oslo accept for the price of 2 Subarus 16:32  |  Absolute Sweden 22/10/07
      35.   The Arab Hammer # 11 Excessive Expectations (part 1) 16:35  |  Jeff Northridge 22/10/07
      36.   #31 Tosefta - why aren`t the Americans clarifying situation to 17:06  |  Smadar 22/10/07
      37.   The Arab Hammer # 11 Excessive Expectations (part 2) 17:10  |  Jeff Northridge 22/10/07
      38.   To Johnboy 17:31  |  Jackie 22/10/07
      39.   The WICKED Propaganda LIE of Occupation 17:38  |  Linda Rivera 22/10/07
      40.   Israel doing all the wrong things these days. 17:42  |  Akram Zekaria 22/10/07
      41.   Why the luftgescheft ! 17:44  |  redmike 22/10/07
      42.   To Esther # 17 - Who is being C ynical......... 17:46  |  Dolly 22/10/07
      43.   Johnboy, Nr 7 18:12  |  leon 22/10/07
      44.   9# lakshmi is not happy ?! 18:14  |  Akram Zekaria 22/10/07
      45.   Ruti`s Core Issues - Re-Introduced for very good reason!!! 18:15  |  Edna 22/10/07
      46.   American Clarification (Smadar #36) 18:18  |  Tosefta 22/10/07
      47.   Linda Rivera 18:18  |  leon 22/10/07
      48.   To Said # 30 - Why not Uganda....... 18:47  |  Dagma 22/10/07
      49.   Smadar # 36 UNSCRs 242 & 338 18:50  |  Jeff Northridge 22/10/07
      50.   #jamie, you certainly have a poor sence of history 18:57  |  MarieAntoinette 22/10/07
      51.   #Atlas. Negociations are to put things right,,, 19:08  |  Abd UR Sattari 22/10/07
      52.   #48 Dagma and Churchill 19:22  |  Boycott 22/10/07
      53.   To Clickfool #3, et al on core issues 19:30  |  Michael 22/10/07
      54.   Akram Zekaria # 40 At Least It Won`t Be A Secret This Time 19:35  |  Jeff Northridge 22/10/07
      55.   To Atlas #10 19:38  |  Michael 22/10/07
      56.   #46 Tosefta - well I understood that the ME peace process 19:50  |  Smadar 22/10/07
      57.   Advice to Abbas 19:52  |  Tosefta 22/10/07
      58.   #49 Jeff Northridge still not in touch with reality. 19:57  |  Labhras 22/10/07
      59.   #49 Jeff, yes the U.N. resolutions imply to negotiate 20:10  |  Smadar 22/10/07
      60.   Correct history (Smadar #56) 20:15  |  Tosefta 22/10/07
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      62.   More correct history (Smadar #59; re Jeff) 20:39  |  Tosefta 22/10/07
      63.   MarieAntoinette # 50 Casus Belli (part 1) 20:41  |  Jeff Northridge 22/10/07
      64.   The real core issues 20:43  |  Briton 22/10/07
      65.   #60 Tosefta, familiar with Geneva Accord and seems 21:04  |  Smadar 22/10/07
      66.   MarieAntoinette # 50 Casus Belli (part 2) 21:05  |  Jeff Northridge 22/10/07
      67.   "A significant gap separates moderate PA leaders` will, ability" 21:39  |  Rami 22/10/07
      68.   Livni Livni!!! 21:48  |  Lu-i 22/10/07
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      73.   Smadar # 59 Not Quite (part 1) 23:05  |  Jeff Northridge 22/10/07
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