Talk:Palestinian Prisoners' Document

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Regarding the ambiguity of the recognition of israel ive added: I only ask you to read the actual document and ask yourself if it mentions a two state solution or an implicit recognition of israel. The purpose of the document was to unite the palestinian people warring factions against a common foe and create their own state in the 67 borders. I would love nothing more than see hamas actually embracing a two state solution, however, i feel that the complete picture must be put forward and show that there was indeed a media spin and Hamas's own words prove it. I wonder if something positive will actually come out of the inaccurrate media reporting on the subject. --Nightybeta

There seem to be multiple pages on this. Btw, the eventually signed agreement was modified before signing, and a Hamas spokesman explicitly declared that it does not recognize Israel.

Re: Nightybeta's comments:

The PD does not need to recognize Israel to explicitly forfeit the idea of a Palestinian State on Pre-48 Borders, which it does, from Point 1: "The Palestinian people in the homeland and in the Diaspora seek ...to establish their independent state with al-Quds al-Shareef as its capital on all territories occupied in 1967"

People need to stop confusing a failure to recognize the Israeli government, and its justification on Zionist principles, with a failure to acknowledge the existence of the Israeli state at it's pre-1967 borders; hence the forfeiture of Palestinian claims (particulary of Hamas') of a state on pre-48 borders cited above.

Thus it is not "spin" to suggest the latter, which is what most media analysts I have read seem to have in mind. Hence Nightybeta's reference that the Prisoner's Document does not recognize Israel (presumably the government) is a moot and largely irrelevant point. S/he is right in that it does not recognize the legitimacy of the Israeli government. But should we really expect a people whose history views the seizure of their historic homeland by a Zionist government (and the values that are attached to that political-religious philosophy) as "legitmate"? Rather, it is reasonable for them, as a matter of political pragmatism, to forfeit their claim to a portion of that homeland where that same Zionist government exists, which is what the PD commits Hamas to for the very first time.

Instead of wasting energy on so-called ambiguity regarding Hamas' failure to recognize the Israeli government's "right to exist" (which the PD does not approach at all), perhaps the greater point would be to add to the article the PD's forfeiture of a Palestinian state on pre-48 Borders, and Hamas' newfound (and historic) political commitment to that principle. --JRL

[edit] Content

Does anyone know what the 18 points actually are? --AndrewRT 00:27, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reference to poll

The Reference to the Poll seems to be a broken link: "Poll: Only 47 percent of Palestinians would vote for prisoners", Ha'aretz 19/06/2006

At least I just get an advert on that page... If I do a quick search I find this document: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=723105&contrassID=1&subContrassID=0&sbSubContrassID=0

But that seems to show the support for the Prisoner's document as 77%, not 47%. Unless document in the original link can be found, then we should show the degree of support as 77%... or at least state that the degree of support is in dispute and provide more than one working link.

Xagent86 11:13, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

What the polls showed is that most Palestinians support the document itself (up to 80%), but less than half would have voted in that referendum that Mahmoud Abbas was planning for late July because Palestinians saw the calling for a referendum as another example of factional bickering of the sort they were fed up with. Too bad the link is broken. Ramallite ^(talk) 12:19, 4 August 2006 (UTC)