How does the accord differ from the US-backed plan widely known as the roadmap?
The accord goes considerably further than the roadmap. While the roadmap seeks to create secure conditions under which a settlement could take place, the Geneva accord reverses that, by agreeing on a settlement first. This should then lead to peace. The roadmap provides for a ceasefire and a settlement freeze, then the creation of a Palestinian state with “provisional borders”. After this is what appears to be a vague process for negotiation on final agreements. The Geneva accord, however, settles outstanding issues and is much more specific in its detail. Q: How have Israeli and Palestinian leaders reacted to it? Neither the Israeli Government nor the Palestinian legislative Council have backed the accord. In fact, the Israeli Government and hardline Palestinians have poured scorn on it. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon denounced Mr Beilin and his fellow Israeli negotiators as “traitors”. He recently said the initiative “does Israel damage and is a mistake”. Radical Palestinian gro
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