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Israel and Palestine strive to rescue stalled peace talks



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Published Date: 09 January 2008
ISRAELI and Palestinian leaders agreed to begin tackling the core issues of a final peace agreement in a last-minute push to breathe life into stalled negotiations before US president George Bush's arrival in the Middle East today.
The renewed peace talks, formally launched at a US-hosted conference in November, are a centrepiece of Mr Bush's agenda in his last year of office.

But negotiations have made little headway, marred by Israeli building plans in disputed territory and Palestinian militant attacks in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Mr Bush hopes in the three-day visit to get peace talks back on track.

At the November peace conference in Annapolis, Maryland, Israel and the Palestinians pledged to reach a final agreement by the end of the year, before Mr Bush left office.

Israeli vice-premier Haim Ramon said today the sides were belatedly beginning to discuss the most contentious subjects, and that he believed Mr Bush's visit would help the sides reach an agreement.



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  • Last Updated: 09 January 2008 11:20 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
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MazalUK,

UK 10/01/2008 09:54:43
This is a weary and a path well trodden by previous USA Presidents from Nixon onwards.

The basic fact is that the Arabs never have and never will accept a non-Muslim presence in the Middle-East and are devoted to winning back the lands they lost to other religions as well, right up to Andelucia. The world is going to have to get used to the fact that Islam does not recognise or accept other religions except as 'Dhimmis' or subservient to Islam and even this status is only accorded to Judaism and Christianity as followers of Abraham.

No Mr Bush, I'm afraid that there will be no 'Peace in our time' as Islam will never permit this to be until the whole universe is Islamised.
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henrymanchester,

UK 13/01/2008 20:47:48
We also have the other side of the story of course...

Israeli Racism and xenophobia against the backdrop of Israeli state endorsed assassinations and Arab filled concentration camps in the Negev.

We also have Israel illegally occupying Lands for over thirty years now.

Arab children who throw stones having their arms and legs broken by Israeli soldiers and an abused Arab minority within Israel living in fear.

God is definitely nowhere to be seen in the Holy Land.




 

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