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Thursday 27 January 2011

Former Israel PM urged Abbas to sign peace deal

The Associated Press
Thursday, January 27, 2011; 2:37 AM
JERUSALEM -- Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says he urged the Palestinian president to immediately sign his blueprint for a peace deal, but Mahmoud Abbas demurred and the two never met again.
Senior Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat, center, surrounded by Fatah supporters speaks during a rally in the West Bank town of Jericho, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011. Erekat returned to his hometown of Jericho Tuesday and was welcomed by cheering supporters in the town's square, following a recent broadcast by the Al-Jazeera TV channel linking Erekat and other senior Palestinian sources to making broad concessions to Israel in peace talks. (AP Photo/Muammar Awad)
In excerpts from an upcoming book published in Yediot Ahronot daily on Thursday, Olmert says he told Abbas at their last meeting on Sept. 16, 2008, to sign on.
Olmert said: "Take the pen and sign now. You will never receive a fairer or more equitable proposal."
According to Olmert's previously disclosed proposals,Israel would retain West Bank settlement blocs and Jewish neighborhoods in east Jerusalem. The Old City of Jerusalem and its environs would be under international administration.
The Palestinian state would be demilitarized and Israel would absorb a limited number of Palestinian refugees
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