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Abbas' Term Extended
Ramallah/JTA — Palestinian
Authority President Mahmoud
Abbas rejected a return to violence
in an address to the PLO. "What is
required of us ... a return to vio-
lence? I won't accept it',' he report-
edly said at a Dec. 15 meeting of the
Palestine Liberation Organization's
Central Council in Ramallah.
Abbas also said
that Israel must
halt all settle-
ment building
and recognize a
Palestinian state
in pre-1967 bor-
ders to resume
peace
talks.
Mahmoud
"When
Israel
Abbas
stops settlement
activity for a specific period and
when it recognizes the borders we
are calling for, and these are the legal
borders, there would be nothing to
prevent us from going to negotiations
to complete what we agreed to at
Annapolis," Abbas said, according to
Reuters.
The Annapolis conference in 2007
restarted Israel-Palestinian peace
talks and called for the first time for
a two-state solution, following the
guidelines of the 2002 road map for
peace that called for a settlement
freeze and an end to Palestinian
violence.
On Dec. 16, the PLO council
extended the term of Abbas until
new elections can be scheduled.
His term expires Jan. 25.
Palestinian elections scheduled for
next month were canceled when
Hamas refused to allow the vote to
go forward in the Gaza Strip, which
it controls.
Abbas, 74, has said he will not run
for re-election.
Hamas does not recognize the
extension, Al Jazeera reported.

7.5 Million Israelis
Jerusalem/JTA — Israel's popula-
tion at the end of 2009 stands at
7,509,000. The Central Bureau of
Statistics reported on Dec. 30.
According to the bureau, 75.4 per-
cent of Israel is Jewish. 20.3 percent
is Arab and 4.3 percent is "other"
— either non-Arab Christians or
those without a religious designa-
tion. Israel's population grew 1.8
percent during 2009, with 160,000
births and 39,000 deaths.

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