More exciting
I hope this is for real. The Jordanians and the Egyptians, indirectly acting as representatives of the Arab League, have come to Israel to discuss a final settlement. I chose these last words very carefully. I hope the double entendre is seen as an optimistic response to the last time a final solution was proposed.
In the mean time, the US press is ignoring all this and much other news to tell us about some 21 year old movie babe who ... shock schock .. got arrested for dwi, driving w/o a liscence, and cocaine. And of course there are such important issues as Mit Romney's not being able to read the signs he holds and the reappearance of Neanderthals in the modern human population.
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Neither for Israelis; the newspapers are yellows on both sides of the Ocean.
No special great news, as Jerusalem Post report:
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said Saturday that the Arab side is waiting for a practical answer from Israel regarding the renewal of negotiations that would lead to a final status agreement to create a Palestinian State, Israel Radio reported.
Aboul Gheit spoke to an Egyptian paper following his return from Israel, where he visited along with Jordanian Foreign Minister Abdul Ilah al-Khatib last week.
According to the Egyptian foreign minister, he and al-Khatib focused on the Israeli need to take measures to free additional prisoners, remove road blocks in the West Bank and to give hope to the Palestinians.
"There is a feeling in Israel for the need to push the peace process forward," said Aboul Gheit. "There exists an opportunity that must be utilized."
Aboul Gheit also spoke of meeting various Israeli officials during his visit, including Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu, President Shimon Peres, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Knesset Speaker Dali Itzik.
Peres, said Aboul Gheit, expressed, as usual, his willingness to push the peace process forward.
Of his meeting with Netanyahu, Aboul Gheit said that he and al-Khatib presented him with the Arab peace initiative and its diplomatic consequences, to which Netanyahu expressed some rejection while pointing out certain reservations.
According to the Egyptian foreign minister Netanyahu also spoke of the importance of economic cooperation with the Palestinians.
And???
Are there new possibilities here? Are the Arabs serious? What are they willing to commitm to a new thrust for peace?
Seesm to me Egypt could do a lot to help .. offering to help contaqin Gaza, ceding land for a new. P. state, all these ould be a ogod start.
What to you think about Benjamin? His reputation her e is awful.
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