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Israel-Palestine
Road to Peace Two-Way Street
2005-03-23
Arab League delegates overcame initial hiccups and quickly got down to business yesterday after the start of the summit discussing peace with Israel while making it clear any road to peace must be a two-way street. "Israel still imagines that rights will be forgotten ... (and) that the Arabs will normalize relations with it without any equivalent worth mentioning. It cannot happen without something real in return," Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa told the summit. Moussa rejected accusations that Arabs would only produce terrorism and referred to Arab peace initiatives in the past years. His speech focused on global developments, including moves to change regimes by force.

In his inaugural address, Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the conference chairman, said Arabs must show the world their peaceful intentions to mobilize international public opinion against Israel's intransigence. "We must make the international community, the conscience of the world and the Jewish people themselves bear witness to the strategic nature of the Arab option for peace," he said. The president urged Israel to withdraw from all Arab territories it occupied after the 1967 war — one of the demands of the Arab peace plan — for normalization of ties. He stressed the Palestinians' right to establish their independent state with Jerusalem as its capital.
Posted by:Fred

#1  ..after the start of the summit discussing peace with Israel while making it clear any road to peace must be a two-way street.

After having attempted to overrun Israel several times, the Arabs are in no position to talk about two-way streets.

Losers don't dictate terms.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2005-03-23 10:26:25 AM  

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