Yemeni opposition rejects Saleh position on delivery

SANAA- the Friday Yemen opposition has rejected the position of President Ali Abdullah Saleh on a revised plan for the Gulf to relieve him of the power, as gathered for mass demonstrations against him and for the security forces.

The ruling party, said Thursday night that Saleh would not sign the agreement before the end of the representatives of the ruling party and the opposition had signed. Leader of the opposition Sultan Atwani said Reuters Friday his coalition would not accept.

The plan proposed by the Gulf Cooperation Council envisages Saleh resign 30 days after the signing of the agreement in the hope that this will end three bitter months of protests demanding his resignation, which at least 130 people were killed.

But the opposition suspicious Saleh, a political survivor cunning for more than 30 years and until now a key ally of the United States and Saudi Arabia in the fight against al-Qaida.

"Us won't accept unless the President sign as a party to the agreement, and we call the CCG and the United States and the European Union to put pressure on Saleh to sign the initiative", said Atwani.

Saleh appeared to sign the agreement, which guarantees him and his family immunity and aid prosecutions, but last week refused to put his name to the transaction in his capacity as President.

The proposed GCC plan amended Thursday in which 15 representatives of the party in power and the political opposition would ink the plan in Sana'a, only Saleh and the head of the opposition, but in vain.

ARABS WANT CALM YEMEN

A GCC source has said the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Gulf Reuters may try to meet in Riyadh Sunday to discuss the political crisis of the Yemen.

Arab Gulf States including oil giant Saudi Arabia, close to the Yemen, are eager to see peace return to the Yemen, a poor state who have difficulties to handle internal rebellions and home to the branch of the Arabian Peninsula active al-Qaeda.

But demonstrators anti-Saleh, berserk on corruption and poverty, eager to see Saleh accountable and fearing to be sold by politicians of the opposition, are increasingly impatient at the delay.

Large crowds were expected to turn out after prayers Friday, for and against the Government, and the security forces took up positions in the streets of the capital Sanaa Thursday evening. Residents, said that they had heard shots.

There are also signs Saleh and his party more go away from the proposal of the CCG in insisting protests must stop in the Covenant to move, a move likely to irritate the opposition and infuriate protest camps in Sana'a, Taiz and elsewhere.

An official of the ruling party, "success of the initiative requires that both parties to stop all elements that could cause of policies or security tensions... that will necessarily include end of sit-ins and protests and acts of sabotage," said Thursday.

Meanwhile Saudi State GCC Secretary General Abdullatif al-Zayani said that he was "optimistic about the achievement of the objective in the near future", the news agency reported.

"The disagreements on the procedures for the signing of the agreement will be resolved through consultations between the Council of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the GCC and the Secretary General of the GCC," he was quoted as saying.

Israel rejects Palestinian Government with Hamas

 Israeli leaders Thursday rejected the Palestinian agreement of Union between Hamas and Fatah, saying: it could destroy the prospects for peace and to exclude negotiations with any Palestinian Government that includes the rival Islamic militant group.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held his Security Cabinet to discuss the transaction, such as the Israeli President Shimon Peres called the Palestinian agreement "a serious mistake."

The comments came a day after Hamas and Fatah reached an initial agreement of unity in Cairo to end a four-year conflict which has left the Palestinians with the rival Governments: an administration dominated by Fatah in the West Bank and the Hamas regime that controls the Gaza Strip. The Palestinians say the two territories for a future independent State.

While the Palestinian announcement did not address several key issues, the agreement negotiated by the repeated Egyptian hope to end to bitter infighting which weakens the Palestinians politically and killed dozens of violent clashes and repressions.

The Palestinian plan calls for the joint formation of an interim Government to prepare the way for elections next year. The Palestinians say that the move is a step towards independence. With a breakdown in the peace talks with Israel, the Palestinians have campaigned for the United Nations to recognize a Palestinian State in September, with or without a peace agreement.

Including Hamas - that Israel, the United States and the European Union consider a terrorist organization - the Palestinians have rejected essentially the Israel peace negotiations and put them hundreds of millions of dollars in us and European money aid at risk.

In the West Bank, President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah, a proponent of peace with Israel, stressed he would retain total control on foreign policy. He said it remains ready to talk peace with Netanyahu if Israel stops its construction of the settlement on occupied land.

Seeking to blunt international criticism, he said that the interim Government would not understand the Hamas activists.

"People will be independent, technocrats, not affiliated with the factions," Abbas said at a meeting with a former moderate Israeli businessmen and heads of security group.

Abbas said that it was "too early to say" if its Prime Minister, Salam Fayyad, should remain in position. Fayyad, an economist U.S. educated, is well regarded in the West and was the main reason that the international community now sends nearly one billion dollars a year in aid to the Palestinians. Losing Fayyad could jeopardize this money.

Israel is adamant that it will engage not Hamas, which sent dozens of suicide bombers and thousands of rockets into the Jewish State and is committed to the destruction of Israel.

"We would like to see the Palestinian people to unite, but for the sake of peace," said Peres, a Nobel Prize for peace. "" "". "The world cannot support the creation of a State that part of his regime is a terrorist organization."

Minister of Foreign Affairs Avigdor Lieberman warned that the Palestinian agreement opens the door to Hamas take foot in the West Bank controlled by Fatah.

"The importance of the agreement, is that terrorists will take hold of the West Bank." "Hundreds of terrorists will flood the West Bank and therefore we need to prepare for a different situation", he told the Army Radio station.

Harry Potter star rejects claim for intimidation

  Emma Watson has stated that she was undecided on the resumption of study actress Emma Watson denied the allegations that bullying led to a break of a prestigious U.S. University.

Media reports had said students at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, she had teased on the role of Hermione in the films Harry Potter.

But in a statement on its site Web, Miss Watson, 21, said: "I've never been bullied in my life."

She said that she did not know what she wanted to do after September, but would concentrate on acting for the moment.

She enrolled at Brown in September 2009, initially to study literature.

Reports had alleged that student said "10 points to Gryffindor" - a reference to a House at Hogwarts, the school of the sorcerers in the films Harry Potter - when Miss Watson correctly answered a question in class.

Miss Watson said: "I felt the need to let you all know the reason why I took a semester off the coast of Brown had nothing to do with bullying, the media have been suggesting recently."

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Please do not try and speculate on what I could do in September - we can't know maybe because I know even yet! "

End quote Emma Watson actress"I've never been bullied in my life and certainly never Brown."" This incident "10 points to Gryffindor" never even happened.

"I feel the need to say because accusing students Brown something as serious as bullying and causing leave me seems beyond unfair."

Last month, she announced that she was taking some downtime of the study to concentrate on his film career.

While his spokesman, has said last week that Miss Watson would transfer to another University in the fall, Miss Watson statement said: "Please do not try and speculate on what I could do in September - we can't know maybe because I know even not yet!"

"As my other fellow Brown I'm trying to understand my third year and or not I it abroad (this is common) will pass."

In the frequently asked questions on its Web site section, the first question is "why you selected Brown University on a British?".

Undated reply is: "I was torn seriously whether to remain at the United Kingdom or go to the States as we will face the UK have some of the best universities in the world." But, ultimately, I liked the course Brown and really liked the idea of experiencing another country and culture - and I must say I've never been happier, I absolutely love Brown. ?