以色列想在和平協議中獲部分軍控權
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel must retain military control of part of the occupied West Bank in any future peace deal with the Palestinians, a position that Palestinian officials reject.
Mr. Netanyahu made the comment Tuesday as he visited the Jordan Valley, a strip of West Bank land on the border with Jordan that he called Israel's "first line of defense" against security threats. He said that without a continued Israeli military presence along the Jordan River, "terrorists" would smuggle in rockets and missiles that could strike all of Israel.
Palestinians claim all of the West Bank and East Jerusalem for a future state and have long demanded a complete Israeli withdrawal from those areas.
Mr. Netanyahu comments about keeping an Israeli military presence in the Jordan Valley come as Israeli media outlets are reporting he is planning a new initiative to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks that broke down weeks after they started last September under U.S. mediation.
The Wall Street Journal newspaper quoted Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak Tuesday as saying Mr. Netanyahu may propose a Palestinian state with temporary borders, another idea Palestinian leaders have long rejected.
The Reuters news agency quotes Palestinian Authority spokesman Nabil Abu Rdainah as saying Mr. Netanyahu must stop Israeli settlement activity if he is serious about resuming negotiations. Abu Rdainah said any other Israeli proposal is a "waste of time" and an evasion of Israel's obligations.
以色列總理內塔尼亞胡說，在未來同巴勒斯坦人簽署的任何和平協議中，以色列必須對所佔領的約旦河西岸部分地區保留軍事控制權。巴勒斯坦官員拒絕接受這一立場。
內塔尼亞胡星期二視察約旦河谷時做出上述表示。約旦河谷是在約旦邊界上屬於西岸的地帶。內塔尼亞胡把這個地帶稱作是以色列針對對自己的安全威脅的“第一道防線”。他說，如果以色列不繼續在約旦河沿岸地帶派駐軍隊，“恐怖分子”將會走私進可以打擊以色列所有地區的火箭和導彈。
巴勒斯坦人宣稱對所有約旦河西岸和東耶路撒冷擁有主權，把這些地方作爲今後建國的土地。他們長期以來一直要求以色列完全撤出這些地區。
在內塔尼亞胡做出要在約旦河谷保留以色列的軍事存在的講話之際，以色列媒體報導說，他正在策劃一個新的倡議來恢復巴以和談。雙方的和談去年9月在美國的調停下開始了數星期之後破裂。
美國華爾街日報星期二援引以色列國防部長巴拉克的話說，內塔尼亞胡可能提議建立一個擁有臨時邊界的巴勒斯坦國。這個想法早就遭到巴勒斯坦領導人的拒絕。
路透社援引巴勒斯坦民族權力機構發言人阿布戴納赫的話說，如果內塔尼亞胡對於恢復談判是認真的話，他就必須停止以色列在定居點的活動。阿布戴納赫說，以色列提出的任何其他提議都是“浪費時間”，是逃避以色列的責任。
