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Palestinians call for revival of peace initiative
Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabeel Shaath said yesterday the Palestinian Authority saw no alternative to the current US-backed Middle East peace plan and urged the world community to help revive the bat-tered initiative.
Shaath spoke the day after an Israeli army helicopter fired several missiles at a car in the Gaza Strip, killing two Hamas militants in the latest violence to damage the peace proposal.
A familiar cycle of bloodshed has hurt the ?road map? for peace since a truce collapsed last week. There has been no new diplomatic initiative to steer Israel and the Palestinians back to talks to implement the blueprint for ending three years of fighting and for creation of a Palestinian state by 2005.
?Our resolve to return to peace is still there. Our commitment to end all killings and to have a real ceasefire is there,? Shaath told a news conference at the end of a three-day visit to New Delhi.
?We see no other alternative that is viable and could produce any results,? he said, adding that the plan took nine months to draft and it would take as much time if a new initiative had to be launched.
Shaath said the Palestinians had no illusions that they could defeat Israel militarily just as the Israelis had learned that they could not defeat the Palestinians militarily. Islamic militants renounced a seven-week-old truce on August 21, shortly after Israel killed Hamas's second-ranking political leader, Ismail Abu Shanab, in a missile strike on his car. That followed a suicide bombing in Jerusalem that killed 21 people. Washington says both sides must act if the peace plan is to progress.
Shaath's visit to New Delhi came ahead of one by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in September, the first to India by an Israeli Prime Minister since the two nations established diplomatic relations a decade ago.
The foreign Minister said old friend New Delhi had reiterated its ?unwavering support? for the Palestinian cause.
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