Press report: American guarantees to Israel wiping out right of return

Press report: American guarantees to Israel wiping out right of return

American president Barack Obama is preparing a message of guarantees to be sent to Israel backing its demands regarding the major settlement blocs in the West Bank in in any future settlement among other issues, a Palestinian daily said.

Jerusalemite daily Al-Manar on Monday quoted senior American officials as saying that the guarantees would appease Israel’s security fears and would include Washington’s support for ending Palestinian demands regarding the refugees’ right of return.

They said that the USA had already started to act on the file of refugees and contacted a number of Arab countries and Palestinian parties in this regard.

The sources noted that the American administration was trying to convince Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu to announce a formal decision, which would not be implemented on the ground, on freezing settlement activity in eastern Jerusalem so as to rid the Ramallah authority of embarrassment and start negotiations.