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(1 May 2010) SHOTLIST
Ramallah, West Bank
1. Set-up shot of Hanan Ashrawi, Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) executive committee member, entering office
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Hanan Ashrawi, PLO executive committee member:
"It is very clear that this is a sort of a hopeful statement, rather than a descriptive statement of fact. And if it is to succeed then there are requirements that have to be fulfilled in order to give the (US mediator George) Mitchell shuttle diplomacy, or what they call indirect talks or what they call proximity talks, to give them some credibility and substance. Of course we need to see on the ground that Israel has stopped settlement activities in Jerusalem, around Jerusalem and everywhere else."
3. Ashrawi leaving
Rafah, Gaza Strip
4. Set-up shot of Hamas spokesman in Gaza, Ghazi Hamad
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ghazi Hamad, Hamas spokesman in Gaza:
"I am sure that Israel is not interested in peace or negotiations because what is going on the ground, especially the settlements and building the wall, and the discrimination policy, and also the deportation of the Palestinian people to Gaza Strip. All of this proves that Israel is not interested in peace. They just believe how they can build more settlements, how can they take more actions and aggression against the Palestinian people. So I think that the Palestinian Authority should make a kind of serious evaluation for the whole situation and focus more and more in the reconciliation and the unity of the Palestinian people."
6. Hamad leaving
STORYLINE
Palestinians on Saturday cautioned they would still be waiting to see stronger Israeli compromises on settlement construction before deciding to resume indirect peace talks through US mediator George Mitchell.
A first attempt to get indirect talks going collapsed last month when Israel announced a new Jewish housing project in east Jerusalem, which the Palestinians claim as a future capital.
That drew fierce criticism from the United States and led to the worst rift in decades between Washington and its chief Mideast ally, Israel.
Foreign ministers from several top Arab League member nations will meet in Cairo on Saturday to decide whether to endorse the indirect talks.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas signalled earlier in the week that he would be willing to resume negotiations, telling an Israeli television station that he would present the US proposal to the Arab League.
The talks, however, will not be the face-to-face meetings that the Obama administration had hoped to put in place more than a year after peace efforts broke down amid Israel's military offensive on Hamas-ruled Gaza.
The Palestinians have refused to sit down at the same table with Israel until it agrees to freeze all construction in West Bank settlements and in east Jerusalem, two areas that the Palestinians want for an independent state along with the Gaza Strip.
The indirect talks, with US envoy George Mitchell shuttling between the two sides, were meant as a compromise.
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said on Friday that the talks would get started next week.
The Palestinians, however, were still waiting for backing from the 22-member Arab League.
Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) executive committee member, Hanan Ashrawi, spoke in Ramallah in the West Bank, cautioned that the Palestinians would still be waiting to see stronger Israeli compromises on settlement construction.
"If it is to succeed then there are requirements that have to be fulfilled in order to give Mitchell's shuttle diplomacy... some credibility and substance," she said.

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