CAIRO, Egypt - JordanÂ’s King Abdullah II met in Cairo with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Friday in a hastily-called meeting to discuss escalating Mideast violence. The two leaders of moderate, U.S.-backed Arab regimes - the only countries in the region to sign peace treaties with Israel - discussed the Israeli incursions into the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, which have killed 86 Palestinians in Gaza and 61 people in Lebanon, many of them civilians.Abdullah and Mubarak met, had lunch and then Abdullah left for Jordan a few hours later, EgyptÂ’s official news agency reported.
| "Okay, we're agreed. You don't let the Paleo nutters into your country, and I won't let them into mine." |
US President George W. Bush phoned Mubarak early Friday to talk about the escalations in Lebanon and Gaza, the agency reported. The two leaders “tackled ways to contain the current exploding situation on the Lebanese stage” and violence in the Gaza Strip, it said.
| "George, quickest way I know to stop the fighting is let the Israelis do as they wish. Believe me, my country has experience in this." |