After winning Israel’s general elections on his plan to set Israel’s final borders unilaterally, acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will start to form a coalition, Reuters reported.
Olmert’s centrist Kadima party, founded four months ago by coma-stricken Ariel Sharon, won the elections but by less than expected.
Official results showed that Kadima won 28 seats in the 120-member parliament, centre-left Labor with 20, the ultra-Orthodox Shas with 13, ultranationalist Yisrael Beiteinu with 12 and right-wing Likud with 11.
Israel Radio said Olmert would name teams on Wednesday to start negotiations with other parties on forming a coalition.
Correspondents say Olmert’s margin of victory is much less than he had hoped for, and that he could have trouble forming a stable coalition.
Olmert told his party after his victory that he is determined to set Israel’s permanent borders by 2010 by dismantling West Bank settlements while expanding bigger blocs there.
"In the coming period we will move to set the final borders of the state of Israel, a Jewish state with a Jewish majority," Olmert said.
"We will try to achieve this in an agreement with the Palestinians. This is our hope and prayer,” he said, but he added that if the Palestinians did not move toward peace "Israel will take its destiny in hand" and define its borders after consulting the United States.
More than 240,000 Israelis live among 2.4 million Palestinians in the West Bank, territory Israel seized in the 1967 Middle East war.
The World Court has ruled all settlements in the occupied territory illegal.
Palestinians say that unilateral moves would never bring peace and would deny them a viable state. Some Arab political analysts say that Israel didn’t want a peace partner from the beginning, and that it used Hamas’ election victory as an excuse for acting on its own.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said the Israeli election would make no difference unless Olmert abandoned unilateralism and returned to the internationally-backed roadmap peace plan.
"This result will not change (anything) as long as the agenda of Olmert himself does not change and he does not abandon the question of unilateral agreements," Abbas said in Khartoum where he is attending the Arab League summit.
Israelis voted on the day the Palestinian parliament approved a Hamas-led government.
"While the election is being held in the Israeli entity, the flags of the Hamas government are being raised," Hamas' Prime Minister-designate Ismail Haniyeh told a rally in Gaza.
Israel, the United States and the European Union refused to deal with Hamas, which they classify as a “terrorist” group, unless it recognizes Israel’s right to exist, give up anti-Israeli attacks and accept interim peace agreements, demands strongly rejected by Hamas.
Just an opinion...It doesn't need a backing or proof to give an opinion, like, say if i said ice skating was dumb, then I don't have to give eveidence for it, cos it's my opinion, but if it wer 2 b fact, then, of course, it will need evidence...WELL DUH!!!
respec the leader's till u meet the prophet at kawthar:thankyou:
and lol to bro iqram
Salaam
I'll give respect when it's do, if they ran things according to islam, for exmaple I would never be allowed to make hijra to mecca or madinah simply for my skin colour. I want islamic leaders in all muslim countries.
I'll give respect when it's do, if they ran things according to islam, for exmaple I would never be allowed to make hijra to mecca or madinah simply for my skin colour. I want islamic leaders in all muslim countries.
i am curious - what colour are you, purple? i thought islam was not racist.
each man thinks of his own fleas as gazelles
question authority
If only they had elections in saudia, seriously someone needs to rid of the royals.
Are you sure that elections are Islamic? I am curious as to how a bad ruler would be gotten rid of in an Islamic state, but apart from "consulting" when a new ruler is chosen, is there any room in Islam for democracy?
Le coeur a ses raisons, que la raison ne connait pas. - Blaise Pascal
Israel will have the military superiority for the forseeable future. Yet, it appears the Palestinians have the will to fight, but few means to do so. The fence that has been built by Israel seems very effective at preventing attacks as well.
To be honest, I don't think there is much point in negotiations right now. The parties are still too far apart. It is simply too complex a conflict, with a territorial, cultural and religious dimension. I do not think negotiated peace is feasible in the short to medium term. But perhaps things can quiet down, which will make real peace possible in a few decades or so.
Israel will have the military superiority for the forseeable future. Yet, it appears the Palestinians have the will to fight, but few means to do so. The fence that has been built by Israel seems very effective at preventing attacks as well.
To be honest, I don't think there is much point in negotiations right now. The parties are still too far apart. It is simply too complex a conflict, with a territorial, cultural and religious dimension. I do not think negotiated peace is feasible in the short to medium term. But perhaps things can quiet down, which will make real peace possible in a few decades or so.
I think on Israeli side, they could go for negotiation, but Palestinians, it's hard. They are making it harder by voting Hamas.
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"In the coming period we will move to set the final borders of the state of Israel, a Jewish state with a Jewish majority," Olmert said.
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subhanAllah!!!! i dont like this!! dont like this at all!!
its bad enuff seein them ownin every supermarket franchise and knowing there gathering enough money to blow up this planet!!!!! But now they want a state of pure jewishness! hows it gnna work? subhanAllah LETS ALL GO PALESTINE!!!!!!!! ffended: ffended: (... i really got a problem wiv jews...)
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My tears testify that i have a heart
yet i feel me and shaytan never part
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subhanAllah!!!! i dont like this!! dont like this at all!!
its bad enuff seein them ownin every supermarket franchise and knowing there gathering enough money to blow up this planet!!!!! But now they want a state of pure jewishness! hows it gnna work? subhanAllah LETS ALL GO PALESTINE!!!!!!!! ffended: ffended: (... i really got a problem wiv jews...)
If they want to create a Jewish state with Jewish majority in pre 1967 border ISrael, and Tel Aviv as capital city - I'M OK WITH THAT.
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i think he's as evil as the old one
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