FRENCH F.M…..DUBAI PROVES THAT A PALARAB STATE IS NECESSARY…..SEE NOTE

Did you know that schmuck en francais is schmock?….rsk

By News Agencies

Tags: Dubai Killing, Mossad

The Foreign Minister of France said in an interview Saturday that the January assassination of Hamas leader Mahmoud al Mabhouh in Dubai highlights the need for an immediate recognition of a Palestinian state.

“(The case) shows the need for peace and a Palestinian state, immediately,” Bernard Kouchner told the French Journal du Dimanche.

Kouchner added that the assassination, which is believed by many to have been carried out by the Mossad, underscores the need for peace in the Middle East.

The French Foreign Minister also commented on Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas’s acceptance of a United States proposal that he hold indirect talks with Israel under Washington’s mediation, and said that he could envision the recognition of a Palestinian state even before the borders were negotiated.

“France is training Palestinian police, businesses are being created in the West Bank… It follows that one can envision the proclamation soon of a Palestinian state, and its immediate recognition by the international community, even before negotiating its borders,” Kouchner said.

Kouchner’s comments came ahead of a visit to Paris by Abbas next week, and after Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said he could see an independent Palestinian state in 2011 regardless of whether peace talks have advanced with Israel.

“If by mid-2011, the political process has not ended the (Israeli) occupation, I would bet that the developed state of Palestinian infrastructure and institutions will be such that the pressure will force Israel to give up its occupation,” Fayyad said in an interview published in French media on Friday.

Abbas is due to meet with Kouchner in Paris on February 21 and with French President Nicolas Sarkozy the following day, a senior Palestinian official said this week on condition of anonymity.

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