{"id":17700,"date":"2018-10-09T00:25:28","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T00:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=17700"},"modified":"2018-10-09T00:25:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T00:25:28","slug":"nobel-peace-prize-winner-murad-urges-world-to-fight-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=17700","title":{"rendered":"Nobel Peace Prize winner Murad urges world to fight genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1384526\/middle-east\" readability=\"47\">\n<p>\nJERUSALEM: One of the US officials tasked with drafting a blueprint for Israel-Palestinian peace says it will strongly reflect Washington\u2019s commitment to Israel\u2019s security but will also address Palestinian concerns.<br \/>In an interview published Monday by the English-language Times of Israel news site, presidential special envoy Jason Greenblatt said the plan would \u201cbe heavily focused on Israeli security needs.\u201d<br \/>\u201cBut we also want to be fair to the Palestinians. We have tried hard to find a good balance,\u201d he added.<br \/>\u201cEach side will find things in this plan that they don\u2019t like.\u201d<br \/>US President Donald Trump said in September he would unveil a new peace plan within months.<br \/>Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas accuses Trump of bias toward Israel and refers mockingly to his evolving peace program as \u201cthe deal of the century.\u201d<br \/>Abbas has in particular criticized Trump\u2019s decisions to recognize Jerusalem as Israel\u2019s capital, his order to close the Palestine Liberation Organization office in Washington and to cut off aid funding, including to a UN agency that supports millions of Palestinian refugees.<br \/>The peace plan, Greenblatt said, \u201cwill include a resolution to all of the core issues, including the refugee issue.\u201d<br \/>He said that it would not propose a Palestinian-Jordanian confederation as a possible solution \u2014 something that Abbas has been reported as saying Greenblatt and Trump\u2019s senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner sounded him out about at a meeting last month.<br \/>\u201cWe\u2019re not looking at a confederation model,\u201d Greenblatt said in Monday\u2019s interview.<br \/>An end to Israeli occupation and a sovereign, independent state of their own is at the heart of Palestinian demands.<br \/>Israel, however, says it must retain a security buffer between the West Bank and neighboring Jordan and Israeli officials speak of an undefined \u201cstate-minus\u201d or \u201cless-than-state\u201d for the Palestinians.<br \/>According to Israeli activists who met Abbas in September, the Palestinian leader said he had told Greenblatt and Kushner that he would only be interested in a confederation if Israel joined too.<br \/>His response was seen as a way of torpedoing the proposal since Israel would be highly unlikely to agree.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM: One of the US officials tasked with drafting a blueprint for Israel-Palestinian peace says it will strongly reflect Washington\u2019s commitment to Israel\u2019s security but will also address Palestinian concerns.In an interview published Monday by the English-language Times of Israel news site, presidential special envoy Jason Greenblatt said the plan would \u201cbe heavily focused on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":17701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}